Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland from the Supreme Court during the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency. But now he says if a vacancy comes up in the last year of Donald Trump’s term, “we’d fill it.” Take a look at the response above.
And here’s Morning Joe’s take on it.
“The death of shame," says @joenbc on Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's comments at a lunch in Kentucky yesterday, about what he would do if a Supreme Court vacancy emerges next year. pic.twitter.com/XwiAjuJfDG
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 29, 2019