The chance to lead the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for a nominee that would tilt the Supreme Court to a clear 6-3 conservative majority? Sen. Lindsey Graham is never going to pass that up, writes CillizzaCNN | Analysis
"I will be leading the charge to make sure that President Trump's nominee has a hearing, goes to the United States Senate for a vote, because that is my job and I believe I am doing what the people of South Carolina want me to do in this regard," Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said at a GOP event in North Charleston on Monday.Which is, um, different than what he said in 2016 when he opposed even holding confirmation hearings for Garland. .
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! "I want you to use my words against me," Graham said at the time."If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say, 'Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.'" Yeah, I mean, he pretty much asked for it. Like, explicitly.
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