Speaker Pelosi won't rule out a new impeachment effort to delay a US Supreme Court vote if Joe Biden wins the presidency: 'We have arrows in our quiver that I’m not about to discuss right now.'
Democrats have sharply criticized McConnell, who refused to hold any hearings for then-President Barack Obama's 2016 Supreme Court nominee, federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland, citing that fact it was an election year and that the American people should have a voice in the selection.
"In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia's death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president's second term," he said in a statement."We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president's Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.
"Today it seems that Senator McConnell has lost his faith in the judgment of the American people and wants to hurry up and put somebody on the court," former President Bill Clinton told"This Week.""And the president does too. So they — their position is 'do whatever maximizes your power.'"“The way this happened so close to the election, that the next president should be able to make the decision.
"If the shoe were on the other foot and the Democrats and the White House and the Senate, they would right now be trying to confirm another member of the Supreme Court," Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told"Meet the Press."
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