Mitch McConnell refuses to commit to confirming a Biden Supreme Court nominee if GOP takes back the Senate

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Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. (Photo by Gage Skidmore.)
Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to say he will not "mount a blockade" against a possible Supreme Court nominee put forth by President Joe Biden, should the opportunity arise, if Republicans take back the Senate after the 2022 elections.

McConnell, as Majority Leader, infamously refused to even allow then-President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee to have any confirmation hearings, keeping the seat open if a Republican won the White House in 2016, which Donald Trump did.

In an interview with Politico's Burgess Everett, the Kentucky Republican who has been in the U.S. Senate since 1984 was asked if he would again "mount a blockade."

“Cross those bridges when I get there, we are focusing on '22," McConnell said, Everett reports. “I don't rule anything in or out about how to handle nominations if I'm in the majority position."

Politico's Anthony Adragna opines that "progressives will freak"over McConnell's remarks.

"Liberal groups have ratcheted up the pressure on Justice Stephen Breyer to consider retirement, fearing McConnell would simply keep the seat open if he regains power in the midterms.... These comments will only add fuel to those fears."

The U.S. Supreme Court currently has a 6-3 conservative majority, with three of those six justices being placed on the Court by Donald Trump. Many Democrats believe it's time to expand the court to 11 or 13 justices to better represent the American people. The Court has had nine justices since 1869. The 1870 census reported the population of the United States at just 38 million people. Today, the total U.S. population is 332 million, nearly nine times that number.
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It is time to kill the filibuster of change it if not killed. Change it to where the leader of the party of the Senator that calls the filibuster must stand in the well and speak continuously on the subject without breaks or relief to maintain the filibuster. When the leader, be it minority or majority leader, takes a break for whatever reason then the filibuster is over and another cannot be called on that bill. The vote may then be taken to pass or defeat the bill, by a simple majority.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

Re: Mitch McConnell refuses to commit to confirming a Biden Supreme Court nominee if GOP takes back the Senate

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The SCOTUS is a bought and paid for joke, pack it now while you have a chance...

...knowing full well that the others will do the same when it's their turn (a turn that will possibly never end there by destroying the US as we knew it, and removing the "Untied" aspect from it's name etc)...

...until there are hundreds of bought and paid for SCOTUS judges LOL!

Finally, maybe then term limits and other common sense regulations on both the judges and their nomination/election procedures can be created to restore the "justice aspect" of the SCOT_S.

Re: Mitch McConnell refuses to commit to confirming a Biden Supreme Court nominee if GOP takes back the Senate

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Old News - McConnell said that before in campaign speeches. If Republicans win control of the Senate they control the agenda and can block any Biden judicial nominees including SCOTUS. If Democrats want to increase the number of justices on SCOTUS, they have to overcome the filibuster.
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