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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Sun Apr 2, 2017, 01:22 PM Apr 2017

With Merrick Garland out, McConnell suddenly no longer a fan of the imaginary "Biden-Rule".

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/thats-an-absurd-question-mitch-mcconnell-melts-down-as-chuck-todd-grills-him-for-blocking-merrick-garland/

“I already told you!” McConnell exclaimed. “You don’t fill Supreme Court vacancies in the middle of a presidential election.”

“Should that be the policy going forward?” Todd interrupted. “Are you prepared to pass a resolution that says in election years any Supreme Court vacancy will not be filled and let it be a sense of the Senate resolution, that says no Supreme Court nominations will be considered in any even numbered year? Is that where we’re headed?”

“That’s an absurd question,”
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With Merrick Garland out, McConnell suddenly no longer a fan of the imaginary "Biden-Rule". (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2017 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Eliot Rosewater Apr 2017 #1
McConnell is a reprehensible prick Va Lefty Apr 2017 #2

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