McConnell backs Merrick Garland for FBI director

[babylonsister]

McConnell backs Merrick Garland for FBI director
By Max Greenwood - 05/16/17 09:49 AM EDT


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) is throwing his support behind an unlikely proposal that Judge Merrick Garland should replace fired FBI Director James Comey, acknowledging on Tuesday that he had recommended the former Supreme Court nominee to President Trump.

"It may surprise people, but he has a deep background in criminal law, he was the prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case and I think it would make it clear that President Trump will continue the tradition at the FBI of having an apolitical professional," McConnell said during an appearance on Bloomberg.

The endorsement was an about-face for McConnell, who was instrumental in blocking former President Obama's attempt to confirm Garland to the Supreme Court last year by refusing to hold hearings or votes on the judge.

But Democrats are unlikely to accept Garland trading his lifetime appointment on the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for a ten-year FBI director appointment that Trump could cut short at any time by firing him.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/333570-mcconnell-backs-merrick-garland-for-fbi-director

[dalton99a]

1. In other words, McConnell thinks Democrats are stupid

[Volaris]

6. That, and he's trying to make a show of bipartisanship,

So when he gets indicted later he can find a camera and say 'look how mean the liberals are to us'.

Elected Dems, fuck him. He should be treated exactly the same way he behaved toward Obama, which means he get exactly NOTHING.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[DefenseLawyer]

3. That would open a spot on the D.C. circuit for another right wing crank

Trump could appoint Garland, get his new judge, and then fire Garland. It's a win win.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. This is a baaaad idea

I hope that no Democrats take McConnell seriously on this. Aside from all of the aforementioned obvious problems with this idea, it REALLY looks bad on McConnell who should burn in hell for how he prevented Garland from getting due consideration for the late Scalia's (now Gorsuch's) Supreme Court seat when he was nominated by President Obama at the beginning of last year, but who now is quite eagerly happy to suggest Garland for another position that will put Garland at the mercy of Trump's erratic behavior while enabling the Republicans to replace his seat with a far-right extremist. What could go wrong with this idea?

[Madam45for2923]

5. We need him where he is right now or as SCOTUS!