.MaddowBlog: Ignoring his purported principles, Senate Majority Leader McConnell would fill SCOTUS vacancy
On Feb. 13, 2016, then-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly. Immediately thereafter, Senate Republicans, led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , insisted that the vacancy on the high court go unfilled -- pointing to the ongoing presidential election as an excuse.
As GOP senators put it at the time, it'd be"inappropriate" and"disruptive" to go through the confirmation process in the middle of a national election process, notwithstanding the fact that Election Day was nine months away at the time of Scalia's passing. Exactly four years to the day after the conservative justice's death, McConnell appeared on Fox News and was asked whether he'd fill a Supreme Court vacancy this year, even if one were to arise closer to Election Day than Scalia's vacancy. Take a wild guess what the GOP leader's"If you're asking me a hypothetical about whether this Republican Senate would confirm a member of the Supreme Court due to a vacancy created this year -- yeah, we would fill it.
Yes, of course he would. To think McConnell is driven by deeply held principles and an abiding commitment to propriety is to make a serious mistake.
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