Posted on 09/18/2020 6:14:53 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said unequivocally Friday night that President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to fill the vacancy of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
Ginsburg, 87, died Friday from complications surrounding metastatic pancreas cancer.
“The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life,” McConnell said in a statement Friday.
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise,” McConnell continued. “Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.”
McConnell added that “by contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary.”
“Once again, we will keep our promise,” he said. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
In May 2019, McConnell, R-Ky., made clear that should a vacancy materialize in the midst of the 2020 election cycle, the GOP-majority Senate would likely “fill it.”
McConnell’s comments last year were met with criticism from Democrats who accused him of hypocrisy, based on the treatment of former President Barack Obamas Supreme Court nominee and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals chief Judge Merrick Garland.
Obama nominated Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in 2016, but McConnell and Senate Republicans refused to hold a hearing or vote on his nomination, citing the imminent 2016 presidential election.
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Speak for yourself, Kemosabe. The entire nation is most certainly NOT in mourning.
Guess civil starts tonight, after all
What about these folks? Will they stand with the turtle?
Sen. Susan Collins
Sen. Chuck Grassley
Sen. Lisa Murkowski
Sen. Mitt Romney
A bit of divine timing, perhaps?
300 judges, two supremes and impeachment, now this ??!! The Turtle wins the race !. To save time in the future this will serve as my response to all criticisms . He has come thru time and again when the Country is on the line.
Many of us are celebrating with a drink. The wicked witch is dead!
Murkowsky already said she won’t vote to approve any until after the next inauguration, I’d be shocked if Romney and Collins don’t soon follow suit.
And Lindsey is a tossup too, IMHO, even if he is up for re-election.
Ginsberg went to her maker with only one wish on her lips, that she not be replaced until a new president is “INSTALLED”! Did no one ever tell her that dictators are installed but in this country our President is ELECTED! I guess it was a Freudian slip on her part that shows how she thought our leaders should be put in place. If what she said is really true I can’t help thinking how shallow her life must have been. I know that American Jews are not really Jewish but something tells me she had no relationship with God. And there is the shameful truth of the whole matter.
If anyone can ram a judicial nomination through, the turtle will do it.
Mitch gets what he wants on judges. This is going to be good. And Mitch is up for re-election too.
Meh, we’ve been prepping for it since 2000. Won’t be what they think it is.
Nut. Cracking. Time.
48-52
“The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” There was nothing sudden about her passing. She wanted to swear Hillary in as President. A woman moment. Hillary lost and Ruthie had to live 4 more years. She lost too. Trump signaled her end when he announced his choice for the SCOTUS 10 days agin.
I read earlier the Christopher Wray got canned. Is that true? The RBG posts have buried everything else.
We don’t really need a vote, with one less liberal judge, there is no hurry.
But a good pick will impact the election, and put the Democrats on the defensive and get our base even more fired up, and sway more undecided voters to break for the GOP.
It will never happen. First, the democrats will delay. Second, the senate may turn over before they can vote on January 6th. Third, RINOs like Romney will threaten not to vote. Trump has nothing to do with it. As he will nominate someone after the election. And its up to the senate to do everything else.
wonder where she will be buried? I would like to know if I am ever passing through and need to piss :)
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