Sen. Patrick Leahy says it will be 'awfully difficult' for the GOP to slow-walk Biden's SC pick
Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, said on Thursday that Republicans will be hard-pressed to find a way to stifle President Joe Biden's expected Supreme Court pick given the GOP's own record in confirming President Donald Trump's final nominee Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
"Mitch McConnell has declared these things have to be done very quickly, as we saw during the last nominee," Leahy, the longest-serving senator, told CNN. "I think it's going to be awfully difficult for the Republicans, after setting that precedent, to stretch things out."
Justice Stephen Breyer is expected to soon announce that he will retire at the end of the court's current term, opening up a seat for Biden. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that the chamber will move with "all deliberate speed" once a nominee is named. DC Circuit Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is viewed as the presumptive favorite, but others like California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger and South Carolina federal judge J. Michelle Childs are also in the running. The White House has confirmed Biden will follow his campaign promise and name a Black woman to replace Breyer.
Leahy, who is also a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel that oversees Supreme Court nominations, is correct in pointing out that McConnell and Republicans worked quickly to confirm Barrett.
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If they can block it, youbetcha they will
