McConnell: Senate would confirm new Supreme Court justice before presidential election
by Susan Ferrechio December 18, 2019 11:20 AM
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday he would work to confirm a Supreme Court justice even if the vacancy occurs during the 2020 election year.
“We would certainly confirm a new justice if we had that opportunity,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said on host Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.
A retirement or death would leave a vacancy on the high court that Democrats have insisted should remain open until the November 2020 presidential election is decided.
But McConnell is not going to wait and has the ability to seat a new high court justice appointed by President Trump thanks to the GOP’s three-seat majority.
But McConnell told Hewitt, “People chose to kind of misinterpret what I said in 2016.”
McConnell said at the time he announced the Senate had long avoided taking up high court nominees in election years when the Senate was “a different party than the president.”
Well if Democrats have established that they can impeach anyone, anytime, for no reason why won’t they just impeach conservative SCOTUS at first opportunity. If they’ve recaptured Congress & White House at future date, why can’t they then undo the American people period?