McConnell: 'No change of heart' on Roy Moore [View all]
Source: The Hill
BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 12/05/17 02:40 PM EST
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) insisted on Tuesday that he has not changed his position on Roy Moore, after saying over the weekend that Alabama voters would decide if the Republican nominee joins the Senate.
"There's been no change of heart. I had hoped earlier he would withdraw as a candidate. That obviously is not going to happen," McConnell told reporters, saying he has made his position on Moore "perfectly clear."
McConnell came under fire over the weekend after he told ABC News's "This Week" that he would "let the people of Alabama make the call" on Moore joining the Senate.McConnell added on Tuesday that Republicans will have "no option" but to seat Moore if he wins, citing a 1960's Supreme Court case.
The Supreme Court ruled in Powell v. McCormack that while the Constitution gives Congress the ability to punish members for "disorderly" behavior, it couldn't use an exclusion vote to refuse to seat a member who was legally elected.
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