The only positive thing about Mitchie McConnell is that he prevented Merrick Garland from getting on the Court.
“The only positive thing about Mitchie McConnell is that he prevented Merrick Garland from getting on the Court.”
By literally doing nothing. It was McConnell’s prerogative, as the senate majority leader, to decline a full senate vote for Merrick Garland. And that’s what he did.
There was no pressure. The Republican base was overwhelmingly supportive of McConnell’s action.
Most other Republican senators put in that position would have done the same thing.