That’s what happens when one party has control.
Can you imagine what the reaction from Democrats would be if Trump gets to replace Ginsburg in 2020 ?
WASHINGTON – The Senate majority leader says if there’s a vacancy on the Supreme Court during next year’s election cycle, the Republican-controlled Senate would likely confirm a nominee selected by President Donald Trump.
In an appearance Tuesday in Paducah, Kentucky, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told a questioner that if a Supreme Court justice died next year, creating a vacancy on the nine-member court, “Oh, we’d fill it.”
McConnell’s comments appeared to mark a reversal from his stance three years ago, during President Barack Obama’s final year in office, when he orchestrated a blockade of Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia . McConnell blocked hearings for Garland, a federal appeals court judge, saying that the choice should be left to voters in an election year.
McConnell: ‘We’d fill’ any Supreme Court vacancy in 2020
Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell says that if a vacancy occurs on the Supreme Court during next year’s election cycle the chamber would likely confirm a GOP nominee selected by President Donald Trump