Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has issued a statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, announcing President Donald Trump’s nominee will get a vote oin the floor of the Senate.
McConnell blocked President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, despite having nearly a year left in his term.
But McConnell now says, in a non-constitutional claim, that “no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party President’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” since the 1880’s.
Read his statement below:
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