Grassley: I'll Keep Open An Election Year SCOTUS Vacancy, But Trump, McConnell Won't Agree
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Tierney Sneed | May 11, 2018 5:46 pm
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he would follow what Republican in 2016 dubbed the “Biden rule” — that Supreme Court vacancies open within a year before a presidential election shouldn’t be filled until after the presidential election — if it happened before the 2020 election. He added that President Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would not agree with the Biden rule if the vacancy opened under Trump.
Grassley’s comments came during an appearance on Iowa Public Radio Friday, where he was asked if Trump would agree with holding the seat open for a vacancy that occurred in 2019 or 2020. “It would be the one year of the ’20, if you want to follow the pattern of the Biden rule, and I’d follow that. That would just be the 12 months or, let’s say, the 10 months before the election 2020, no he wouldn’t agree with that,” Grassley said.
He was asked if McConnell would agree.
“No, he would not agree with that,” Grassley said.
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