The pledge of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to have a vote on the replacement for the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg has the Left in an uproar.
Didn’t the GOP leader oppose a floor vote when Justice Scalia died in early 2016?
Of course. However, McConnell has seized upon a distinction between the two situations. After all, he says now, the White House was held by a different political party from that controlling the Senate then. Today both the upper chamber and the presidency are in Republicans hands.
That seems to be a distinction without a meaningful difference. Of course, it’s hypocrisy in action.
So what!
Do you think that if the Democrats were in charge of the White House and the Senate the outcome would be any different?
It’s not as if the position enunciated by McConnell in 2016 was founded on any Constitutional principle. Rather, the GOP leader was focused on doing his best to keep the Supreme Court seat available to be filled by a Republican (hopefully) occupying the White House in 2017.
In 2020, the object is the same. But the time has changed. With Trump in office – and his re-election uncertain - now is the time to fill the vacancy with, one hopes, a conservative.
The Supreme Court will then become a critical roadblock to the Left’s continuing efforts to dismantle America as we know it.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a wily politician, can only lament that he doesn’t have the opportunity to display such hypocrisy.
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