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MrScorpio

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Fri Mar 11, 2016, 03:35 PM Mar 2016

GOP Moron, Sen Johnson admits that Republicans are complete hypocrites...

GOP Senator: Of Course We'd Consider SCOTUS Nom If Obama Were Republican!

Updated at 3:00 p.m. ET

During a Thursday morning radio interview, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) candidly explained that Senate Republicans would take a different approach to a Supreme Court nominee if a Republican president were in office and replacing a conservative justice.

Johnson was asked on Wisconsin radio show "Morning Mess" about Senate Republicans' refusal to consider President Obama's forthcoming nomination to the Supreme Court. The host hypothesized that things would be different if Mitt Romney were in the White House.

"It’s a different situation," Johnson said. "Generally, and this is the way it works out politically, if you’re replacing — if a conservative president’s replacing a conservative justice, there’s a little more accommodation to it."

"But when you’re talking about a conservative justice now being replaced by a liberal president who would literally flip the court — you know, let’s face it, I don’t think anybody’s under any illusion — President Obama’s nominee would flip the court from a 5-4 conservative to a 5-4 liberal controlled court," the senator continued. "And that’s the concern, is that our Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms, our First Amendment rights to free speech and religious liberty, will be threatened. And so it’s an incredibly serious moment in terms of what’s the composition of the court going to be."

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GOP Moron, Sen Johnson admits that Republicans are complete hypocrites... (Original Post) MrScorpio Mar 2016 OP
Sen. Johnson is one of the bright sparks in the GOP gun powder room. /nt NCjack Mar 2016 #1
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