Mitch McConnell's nauseating hypocrisy comes into full focus
We saw this coming.
Not just that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg might die before the election. But that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the most shameless man in Washington, would respond with one of the most nauseating acts of political hypocrisy in decades vowing to rush a new Trump appointee onto the court in the two short months before the election.
That may not seem so nauseating and hypocritical on the face of it. After all, Donald Trump is the sitting president and Ginsburg died on his watch, so by law, Trump is entitled to nominate a successor and McConnell, in the ordinary course of events, would schedule confirmation hearings.
But McConnell doesnt believe that! He argued just the opposite four years ago when Justice Antonin Scalia died and it was President Obamas constitutional duty to fill the seat during his last year in office. Remember what McConnell did? He simply refused to hold confirmation hearings for Obamas nominee in the Senate and ran out the clock until the following January. He argued utterly unpersuasively that a president in the final year of his term shouldnt be appointing new justices.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-09-18/ginsburg-death-mcconnell-nominee-confirmation