McConnell: "Highly unlikely" he would allow Biden to fill Supreme Court vacancy in 2024

[Polybius]

Source: Yahoo News

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that it is "highly unlikely" a Supreme Court nominee picked by Biden would be confirmed in 2024 if Republicans take control of the Senate.

What they're saying: Hewitt asked if McConnell would block Biden from filling a 2024 Supreme Court vacancy as he blocked Obama from replacing the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

"Well, I think in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a Senate of the opposite party of the president, you have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy was filled," McConnell said.

"So I think it’s highly unlikely. In fact, no, I don’t think either party if it controlled, if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election. What was different in 2020 was we were of the same party as the president."

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-highly-unlikely-allow-biden-155825838.html

[mahina]

1. Reptile.

Apology to reptiles.

[trusty elf]

18. ...

[Laha]

85. Fantastic photoshop

That's a good picture in a lot of different ways. Thanks!

[trusty elf]

88. Thanks,

glad you liked it!

[Judi Lynn]

86. Beautiful! Brings a tear to the eye. ❤️️

[trusty elf]

87. Hey, Judi Lynn,

thanks!

[lagomorph777]

45. He's top turtle in the Reptilian Party.

What else would we expect from him?

[wryter2000]

3. Ya know what?

1880’s is precedent. It wasn’t the Roman Empire

[onecaliberal]

4. Fuck him, cram the nominee so far down this throat he chokes.

[Blue Owl]

5. The fucking minority reaper is no longer in charge of the goddamned Supreme Court

[Botany]

6. McConnell will most likely be dead in 2024: Blue lips means low O2 in the blood from heart failure

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[Dan]

7. From your lips to God's ears.

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[Botany]

8. I have 2.3 in plant biology from Ohio U. I can diagnose anything.

Or maybe not.

But McConnell's swollen hands last fall sure looked like pulmonary edema.

[Dan]

9. Well, don't know anything about biology - just

Want that bastard to have a painful death - of course, at God’s hands.

[Escurumbele]

31. Of course...Amen

[lagomorph777]

46. From his lips to God's ears.

[Griefbird]

51. While I can't wish harm to another,

if he were to mistake the bucket for a football, it's unlikely that Joshua Hellboy would allow a vote either.

[NJCher]

52. really?

That's cheery. I hate this prick.

[JudyM]

80. "That's cheery"

[onetexan]

76. he's beginning to look devilish with those purplish lips

death can't come soon enough for him given the harm he's done to our democracy and government.

[JudyM]

79. Eww, don't look at his teeth.

That is all.



Revolting on every level.

[Polybius]

83. I'm sure their next Senate Leader will be just as bad

Whoever they have in charge is gonna be awful.

[BlueStater]

10. He's 79 now, so kind of a big assumption on his part that he'll even be alive then. 🙄

He doesn’t exactly look like the pinnacle of health.

[Trueblue1968]

44. LET'S HOPE HE WON'T BE AROUND.

[C_U_L8R]

11. Pack the court now. Enough of this McCrap.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. There should be 18 justices, with nine appointed by Biden before the 2022 elections.

McConnell is an asshole.

[lagomorph777]

47. +9 I agree!!

[Autumn]

12. When does Mitch think the Coney Dog was confirmed to the SC ?

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Fuck him and anyone who thinks the Republicans can be worked with.

[heckles65]

13. In other shocking news

The Pope announced he is Catholic and a spokesbear revealed that the species, yes does shit in the woods.

I mean, really McConnell is not going to allow a vote on any SCOTUS justice EVER. It does not matter if a justice dies/retires in 2024 or tomorrow.

[maxsolomon]

14. But in the middle of a Presidential Election when Senate's in the same party

I'll ram it through an extreme ideologue without any debate.

Thanks, KY. McConnell and Rand Paul. You must be proud of yourself.

[lagomorph777]

49. KY is slippery.

Whatcha gonna do?

[Corgigal]

15. It's also highly

likely he be dead by then. Why should he worry his pretty little mind about this?

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Get cancer and die Mitch.

[brush]

17. How does he think he can stop it? He's not the majority leader, and SCOTUS justice approval...

thanks to his own doing, just takes a simple majority approval called for by the majority leader, Schumer.

[mdbl]

77. maybe he thinks Manchin will vote with him

[Polybius]

84. From the article (and in first sentence of the OP)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Monday that it is "highly unlikely" a Supreme Court nominee picked by Biden would be confirmed in 2024 if Republicans take control of the Senate.

[world wide wally]

19. I don't see how the GOP takes control of the Senate for the life of me.

[onetexan]

20. I hope not ever. I hope mcturtle drops dead b4 2024.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

41. If certain Democratic Senators dropped dead today

If they're from a State where there's not a guarantee they're replaced by a D, and I think there are some of those ... GOP could take control of the Senate.

Also someone like Manchin or Sinema could flip.

IOW, it could happen literally today that we lose the Senate to the GOP.

And we might literally never get it back, with all the voter suppression and ability for state legislatures to reverse the will of the people.

[peppertree]

21. Two words, Bitchy Mitchy: PING MAY

That's how I'd take care of him, were I President Biden.

But Biden's a lot more of a gentleman.

[OrlandoDem2]

22. But Manchin is screaming "BIPARTISANSHIP"!

[Me.]

23. And Who Says It Will Be HIs DEcision?

[dalton99a]

25. Mitch McConnell should get a very painful and terminal natural disease

for which there is neither cure nor relief

[Gregory Peccary]

35. With a side of chronic excessive diarrhea

[AZLD4Candidate]

26. Quote:"You have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy was filled," McConnell said.

No. . .you need to go back to 2020, Mitch.

Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed on October 27, 2020. A week later was election day.

You "same party" line is just moving goalposts.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

42. He specified when POTUS and Senate were different parties

I don't know if it's true it's been since 1880, but it wasn't 2020.

[AZLD4Candidate]

50. Irrelevant. . ."unless I get my way, I will halt government and hurt as many people as a can."

Whether he says same party/different party, he will change the direction of the wind to suit him and his Russian masters.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

53. You are creating the proverbial strawman here

I hate McTurtle as much as the next person, but the proper argument would be one showing that what he actually said was false, not arguing against just a snippet of it.

[AZLD4Candidate]

54. His position will change with the wind and breeze

Difficult to do that, sir, when it changes to suit political whim.

Next week, he might say something as ridiculous as "not during a presidential campaign at all" because his shoes hurt and he doesn't like the color of someone's tie.

The proper argument is to say "too bad. you're in the minority" and "show me where in the powers of Congress in article 1 it says this. Show me what law says this. Just one."

Arguing with Mitch McMoron on his position is like arguing with a howler monkey with bad memory.

Besides, he was being interviewed by that repugnant Hugh Hewitt, so every question was loaded and every answer was for the ears of Trumpers.

[AZ8theist]

78. WAIT, WAIT, WHAT??????

Moscow Mitch ISN'T A HYPOCRITICAL LYING SACK OF SHIT????

I find that Soooo hard to believe.....

[AZLD4Candidate]

81. In other news, water is wet and the sun rises in the east

I'm shocked too.

[Mr. Sparkle]

27. He is the kind of extremeist we need to get out of goverment.

[Initech]

28. Fuck off, Mitch.

[Bayard]

29. Oh no you don't, asshole!

You don't get to have it both ways

I would say, DIE--but I don't see any rethug leader being any better. More Supremes!

[thesquanderer]

30. If Senate flips in 2022, I wouldn't count on getting a confirmation even in 2023. (n/t)

[no_hypocrisy]

90. Agreed.

New norm would be no USSC hearings at any time there’s a republican Senate and a democratic WH.

[PortTack]

32. The senate map is very favorable to Dems in '22. Not as much so in '24, but our gains in '22

Will more than likely keep the senate blue thru ‘24..

We all hope you’re dead by then, but if not enjoy your pompous declarations and your minority status

[Dan]

36. It depends on how the messaging goes...

The Democratic Party is not campaigning against a Republican Party - that old school messaging.

The Democratic Party is campaigning against a body of folks that do not believe that people should have the right to vote. A group of people that believe that only the rich should determine who should be in control of the government. A group of people that believe that regardless of what the vote count actually is, at the end of the day they will determine who receives the vote.

That is part of the messaging - and the other part is We will tell you the truth unlike this other group of people who will tell you what they want you to hear.

[GB_RN]

33. It's Time For Breyer To Go

I mean NOW, while we have the votes to confirm a successor. Otherwise, we'll be in the exact same place we were in with Scalia (and really, Ginsbug).

I hope someone is talking to him (Breyer), especially after THIS bullshit.

[Mr.Bill]

37. I doubt Manchin will even cooperate.

He'll say the nominee has to have bipartisan support.

And if you haven't figured it out yet, "bipartisan" is Washington speak for "not going to happen".

[oldsoftie]

55. I think Garland would've gotten a few GOP votes

I think Romney, Collins, Murkowski & maybe 1-2 others would've voted for him.

[Mr.Bill]

57. So do I.

That's why McConnell wouldn't even allow a vote.

[GB_RN]

64. More Like "Manchin Speak"

For, “I’ve gotta be in the news.”

[Mr.Bill]

67. Good one! n/t

[PlanetBev]

34. Tell me again why you won't resign, Justice Breyer?

Oh, yeah, I forgot, the Supreme Court isn’t political.

[oldsoftie]

56. I'm starting to wonder if he may be more "R" than thought

Maybe he doesnt WANT a Democrat to replace him? Who knows. Maybe he's afraid to recognize his own mortality like most of us

[Mr.Bill]

58. Actually I think he thinks

it would make it look political.

[R Merm]

38. Time to make some turtle soup

[Qutzupalotl]

39. Word salad in search of a principle justifying partisan obstruction.

[3catwoman3]

40. Can this despicable obstructionist SOB just hurry up...

...and DIE already?!

I HATE Mitch McConnell.

[monkeyman1]

43. " REALY MITCH - YOUR IRRELEVANT NOW -- A MINORITY LEADER- GO HOME " !!

[doc03]

48. If there was one today it won't get filled

until 2024 at best or when the Republicans control the Senate again.

[diane in sf]

59. Time for McTurtle to curl up and die, of natural causes of course. Painful, incurable causes...

[Faygo Kid]

60. +1

Of course, if he was accidentally run over by a bus, that would be OK, too.

[Progressive Jones]

61. It's highly unlikely that Mitch McConnell

will still be around in 2024.

[peppertree]

65. Your words to God's ear

Bitchy's demise would allow Governor Beshear to appoint a Democrat - thereby diluting Mancheat's stranglehold on the Senate.

[Progressive Jones]

62. It's highly unlikely that Mitch McConnell

will still be around in 2024.

[bucolic_frolic]

63. He's on his own fantasy reinstatement too

Delusional on power.

[Brainfodder]

66. Mitch doesn't even know what he's apparently done?

So only if Reps are in the presidency is it OK to fill a SC seat, now that he should raked in a forest for AND all that other treasony shit.

[dai13sy]

68. Pulease

Someone else is always the obstructionist in his mind but certainly not him. I definitely think we're giving him too much oxygen. President Joe and his people will find a legal and palatable way to get this done. I, on the other hand, say just get her done. :

[COL Mustard]

69. All The More Reason To Keep Him In The Minority

He's despicable.

[JI7]

70. Hopefully he will be incapacitated while dying a long painful death

[UpInArms]

71. Back to the top ...

Did not see your thread ... sorry

[seta1950]

72. Moscow mitch

When someone tells you who they are , believe them. This will be our future.😤😤😤😤

[Evolve Dammit]

73. Vile. Just fucking vile. Jon Stewart was right. No soul. None.

[riversedge]

74. seems we are being ruled more and more by the Minority Repug Party

[tenderfoot]

75. I'm sure the OP is totally down with this

eom

[Polybius]

82. What do you mean?

That I support this?

[LymphocyteLover]

89. so only Republican presidents can confirm SCOTUS judges in an election year

Got it.

What a motherfucking asshole.