Mitch McConnell Says He Would Block A Joe Biden Supreme Court Pick In 2024
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Democrats have a window to potentially fill a Supreme Court vacancy. But it may be even narrower than they think.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Monday that it’s “highly unlikely” he would allow President Joe Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if Republicans regain the Senate — and possibly even earlier. “I think it’s highly unlikely — in fact, no, I don’t think either party, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election,” McConnell said in an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. As Senate majority leader in 2016, McConnell prevented President Barack Obama from appointing a successor to former Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly in February of that year. Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, who is now serving as Biden’s attorney general, didn’t even get a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, much less a vote. McConnell argued at the time that Supreme Court vacancies shouldn’t be filled during a presidential election year.
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