“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
-@senatemajldr Mitch McConnell, 2016
WE CALL BS on your hypocrisy Mitch. #LetThePeopleDecide
2016: @tedcruz: “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”
2018: @LindseyGrahamSC: “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”
2016: @marcorubio: “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”
2016: @sendavidperdue: “the very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy.... I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”
2016: @ChuckGrassley: “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”
2016: @ThomTillis: “It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”
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