Posted on 06/17/2021 12:02:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan
If there were a scintilla of doubt that McConnell did the nation a great favor, that doubt should have been put to rest during Garland’s June 15, 2021, speech on “Violent Extremism and Domestic Terrorism.” The ideological purge will make Lois Lerner blush.
Mitch McConnell likes to boast, including recently, that his most consequential achievement in his Senate career was keeping Merrick Garland from filling the Scalia seat after the death of the great conservative Justice.
McConnell, with a consistency his detractors refuse to acknowledge, followed historical practice and precedent in refusing to allow the Senate to take up the Obama nomination of Garland in an election year where the party controlling the Senate (Republicans) differed from the party controlling the presidency (Democrats). The confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett in 2020 was consistent with this practice, because the same party (Republicans) controlled the Senate and presidency.
In 2017, Neil Gorsuch — not Merrick Garland — filled the Scalia seat after Trump’s victory in 2016. So far, so good.
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Can’t ppl see thru this guy? McConnell didn’t do us any favors. He probably get paid enough to place him on the court.
Garland is clearly a fake moderate who is part and parcel of the Rainbow-Flag Cartel Party.
Pretty high up, I’d assume.
didn’t
I just wish the turtle would be more consistent. I believe he is an American. I don’t believe he knows we are at war.
Everett, Burgess (February 13, 2016). “McConnell throws down the gauntlet: No Scalia replacement under Obama”. Politico. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
McConnell and several other Republicans did block the nomination. The filibuster was also preserved by McConnell. Some of the things he does are good but he’s a bit too squishy for my tastes, kind of like Sen. Lamar Alexander was.
But he voted for him to be AG.
“Mitch McConnell Did The Nation A Great Favor By Keeping Merrick Garland Off The Supreme Court”
One of the really good things he did. Unfortunately he won’t be able to prevent the Democrats aka Demoncrats from packing the Supreme Court and that will pretty much end the Republic of the United States.
-PJ
A temporary reprieve at best.
True.
The traitorous Supreme Court is nothing but a compromised elite puppet.
And Obama tried to tell us that Tinsel Boy was a “moderate”.
Not only that but use every delaying tactic possible, like the RATs did with Trump's people.
Inside the Beltway propaganda for Mitch IMHO.
Huh?
Which court is that then?
McConnell just delayed the inevitable. Garland might get another shot at getting on the Supreme Kangaroo Kourt.
So it wasn't a good thing there wasn't a Left-wing majority on the Supreme Court? There were quite a few huge 5-4 decisions in that time period that would have gone the other way.
Who else would have been appointed by Biden for AG that would have been any better?
Applying left-right labels to the black robed thugs (except Thomas) on the Supreme court is a very big mistake. During the course of my lifetime they have worked in unison to help destroy the America I grew up in. McConnell is a bought and paid for shill for the CCP. Nothing more, nothing less.
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