![]() ![]() Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”Ģ016, Sen. Trump’s first term.” Ĭan we repeat that? Yes we can: Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. ![]() But he has said he will press to fill any vacancy that might arise in the last year of Mr. Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, led the effort to block Judge Garland’s nomination. Garland, saying that holding hearings in the last year of a president’s term would deprive voters of a role in the process… “In 2016, Senate Republicans refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. We demand that Mitch honor his own logic: This is the worst possible thing that could have happened to women’s rights, black and minority rights, LGBTQ rights, to the already tattered-balance of this once-great Democracy, a further crack in the pillars of democracy. I cannot process that a feminist and civil rights icon might get replaced by Ted Cruz. ![]()
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