With Mitch McConnell pledging obstruction, Democrats need to make the Supreme Court a major campaign talking point as they fight to hold on to the Senate in the 2022 midterms
“How about never?,” McConnell is drifting toward saying about Democratic Court nominees. “Does never work for you?” Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images Sometimes it feels as if politics in 2021 is all about demonstrating that most of the traditional Beltway assumptions about bipartisanship should be discarded. None is so obsolete as the idea that the Senate will happily endorse any Supreme Court nominee who has the right on-paper credentials.
Anyone surprised by this statement really hasn’t been paying attention. Yes, many accused McConnell of hypocrisy when he rushed through Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation very late in the 2020 election cycle.
McConnell declined to say what Republicans would do if a justice stepped down in mid-2023 and Republicans controlled the Senate.“We’ll have to wait and see what happens,” McConnell said, asked by Hewitt if the nominee would get a fair shot.
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