Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says it would be “highly unlikely” that he’d allow President Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if Republicans were to take control of the chamber.
, McConnell was presented with a hypothetical of a Supreme Court vacancy after a GOP victory in the 2022 midterm elections. The scenario was based on what occurred in 2016, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. At that time, Republicans controlled the Senate, having regained power in the 2014 midterms, and McConnell, then the majority leader, refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill Scalia’s seat.
“Well, I think in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a Senate of the opposite party of the president, you have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy was filled,” McConnell replied. “So I think it’s highly unlikely. In fact, no, I don’t think either party, if it controlled [the Senate], if it were [a] different [party] from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election.
Democrats currently hold power in the Senate only due to the vice presidential tiebreaker, and they are defending seats in a number of states that have been close in recent elections, including Arizona, Georgia, New Hamphsire and Nevada. If any of those seats were to turn red without a corresponding flip of a GOP seat — top targets for Democrats include North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — McConnell would regain control of the chamber.
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