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saturnsring

(1,832 posts) Thu Feb 25, 2016, 04:07 PM Feb 2016

well lookie here mitch wrote for the kentucky law review in 1970 about scotus picks [View all]

Mitch McConnell, Feb. 13, 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 59, 1970: “The Senate should discount the philosophy of the nominee. […] The president is presumably elected by the people to carry out a program and altering the ideological directions of the Supreme Court would seem to be a perfectly legitimate part of a Presidential platform.”

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/no-comment-necessary-mitch-mcconnell-on-the-supreme-court-then-and-now/?_r=0

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well lookie here mitch wrote for the kentucky law review in 1970 about scotus picks [View all] saturnsring Feb 2016 OP

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The spot where his chin should be will quiver over that one! yellowcanine Feb 2016 #6