MITCH MCCONNELL/NOMINATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said President Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Ginsburg will receive a vote in the Senate. Within an hour of her passing. The exact opposite of what he said when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace Justice Scalia in 2016.
At that time, Majority Leader McConnell made up a rule based on the fiction that I somehow believe there should be no nomination to the court in an election year. That’s ridiculous. The only rule I’ve ever followed relating to the Supreme Court nomination was the Constitution’s obligation for senators to provide their advice and their consent to a president’s judicial nominee…
Having made this their standard when it served their interests, they cannot just four years later change course when it doesn’t serve their ends.”
-Joe Biden via NBC News, “Watch: Biden Delivers Remarks In Philadelphia | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 20, 2020