Posted on 02/15/2022 5:30:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(Headline USA) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he would not vote for a Supreme Court nominee were another vacancy to open up before the 2024 presidential election.
“I’m not going to be hypocritical on that,” he said, according to Reuters.
“If it comes a week or two weeks before, like it did with our last Supreme Court nominee, I think that’s a time it should go to the next election,” he added, referring to former President Donald Trump’s nomination of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett right before the 2020 election.
Manchin opposed confirming Barrett at the time, claiming, “Rushing to confirm a Supreme Court nominee weeks before a presidential election has never been done before in the history of our nation, and it will only fan the flames of division at a time when our country is deeply divided.”
“I will not vote to confirm Judge Coney Barrett or any Supreme Court nominee before Election Day on Nov. 3,” Manchin continued. “I urge my Republican friends to slow down, put people before politics, and give their constituents a chance to vote.”
However, Manchin said he will have no problem voting for President Joe Biden’s nominee to replace Justice Stephen Breyer, even if the vote is scheduled close to the 2022 midterm elections.
He also praised the list of potential nominees Biden’s team has reportedly drafted.
“Whoever they choose is going to be great,” he told CNN last week.
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Whoever they choose will not be great.
It will be a person who will put the nation at jeopardy at
every chance they get.
The Left has no morals any longer. Ramifications, dangers,
it’s all okay as long as the Left wields power.
They want to destroy this nation. That is their goal, and
they won’t stop until that goal is realized.
In truth, these people should rounded up and deported.
Manchin is less of a RINO than some RINOs
I read Manchin said “before the 2022 midterms,” not “2024.”
That makes more sense.
Bite me does not have to worry..
The republiCANT’s will step up and vote in whoever he nominates
Good point...
He said both.
“Whoever they choose is going to be great,”
“Great”, in what sense? (rhetorical question, we know what he means)
Could it be the tables are turning and a wayward democrat is enjoying the attention from conservatives?
Speaking of Mavericks, I STILL don’t miss Juan McCain.
Ha!
Means nothing the hag graham Pierre and others will
Another golden opportunity for the Republicans.
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