Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday if a Supreme Court vacancy occurs during next year's presidential election, he would work to confirm a nominee appointed by President Donald Trump.
That's a move that is in sharp contrast to his decision to block President Barack Obama's nominee to the high court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. At the time, he cited the right of the voters in the presidential election to decide whether a Democrat or a Republican would fill that opening, a move that infuriated Democrats.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
This is not at all a reversal — McConnell in 2016 was clear that because voters have delivered a Senate and President of *different* parties, they should be allowed to have their say in the next election. Not so in 2020.
Oh hell no!!!! No! Just no! The man has screwed over enough lives in his pathetic lifetime. He doesn’t have an ounce of honor or dignity in him and he damn sure doesn’t deserve that position. Kentucky has known better for decades. Geez
Of course he has flipped his opinion. McConnell is a poor excuse of humanity. It speaks very loudly of the people who vote for bigot like him.
Of course he would.
Traitor
You are FakeNews
A total hypocrite
I think you mean, 'McConnell, in a stunningly brazen display of partisan hypocrisy, says Trump should fill a potential SCOTUS vacancy after destroying Senate norms to deny Obama the right to do so, and then smirks.'
'Hypocrite.' The word you're looking for is 'hypocrite.'
Ah! A change of heart!
Morning and he is worthless I hope not
Of course he would. He changes the rules as it suits him and the Republicans. He screwed President Obama out of an honorable nominee.
no shit guys. it’s also not a reversal. he was just lying.
Heyyy CNN , this this is why you're getting called out more soft on Repubs & cry overreach on Dems. Up there with that trash segment on CuomoPrimeTime , with Steve Cortez & his misrepresentation of the Central Park Five incident .
this isn't a 'reversal'....this is partisan
A politician lying isn't breaking news.
OMG! You don't say! GOPNoLongerBelievesInTheConstitution
Democrats should focus on keeping house and taking senate. That’s more valuable than getting the presidency with a highly partisan/ Republican Congress... or even a split congress..
Reading all the responses below from liberals who hate America. So much mental illness in this country. Why else would anyone be a Democrat? If you want to starve to death in a 3rd world country go to Venezuela now. We like the US with FREEDOM and FOOD. FuckOff
The line “in a reversal from 2016” needs to be changed to “ in a demonstration of craven hypocrisy “
Because principles or something.
Cocaine Mitch strikes again!!!
senatemajldr will go down in history as evil. Period. No good legacy here. None. His descendants will be ashamed.
I’m shocked. Not.
This is not breaking news. This is all the ame bs from the lying unethical underhanded GOP and why the democrats need to take back the senate.
He no longer can make smart decisions. Retire!
...and there's nothing you can do about it. 😃
A reversal... Ahahahaha
One word for McConnell “hypocrite” wish I could say I was surprised but I’m not. He has lost his backbone and become a puppet for Trump. SMH what a disgrace senatemajldr
When will you Democrat idiots realize that Garland would have been voted down by the Republican Senate? The only judge that Obama would have been able to put on the SCOTUS at that particular time would have been a conservative judge, and he chose not to. It's Obama's fault.
That’s not true at all. This is why your ratings are plummeting. He very specifically said when President and Senate are of differing parties voters should be given chance to make them same.
I nominate myself to fill the position momentarily. Anyone is better than that!
McConnell is desperate for us to know how evil and despicable he is. He is part of the coup attacking our country. Oh, we won’t forget Mitch. We won’t forget.
Fake news CNN. What he said last time is in the election year the Senate does not vote on nominations if whitehouse is in another party. CNN sucks!
What amazes me is not that Mitchell McConnell changed his mind (if at all he really meant anything in 2016). What really amazes me is that some many of you appear to be surprised at what this man is saying now. Are you telling me you still hope McConnell has any integrity in him?
I don’t think this is a reversal. This is a man who has put party over America his entire career. His loyalties are not to the Constitution or the United States, they are to the Republican ideology, without exception. He is and always has been a disgrace. Treat him as such.
What else would you expect from this sketchbag
So what cnn is saying is that they are too stupid to realize that trump hasn’t served 8 years? At the time of the 2020 election trump will have served for 3 years and 10 months. At the time of the 2016 election, Obama served for 7 years and 10 months. Math is 2nd grade.
Oh come on! McConnell didn't 'reverse' his stance, he CHOSE to play political games and used his power to stack SCOTUS. He unethical behavior on he and his fellow republicans
He is so repugnant! Merrickgarland
Incredible - but not surprising. Hypocrisy, partisanship and double standards are now shamelessly and openly promoted by our nation’s leaders. And what will the people of the great state of Kentucky do? I‘m going to guess reward McConnell with six more years
The hell he will
This isn’t a reversal. This is entirely consistent with his unAmerican behavior to this point. Be honest.
That’s ok. Dems have broken every other rule .
This is not breaking news. This is what unethical people do...and we all know how unethical senatemajldr and his wife are.
Hypocrisy thy name is McConnell
Like he ever takes the same stance for a Republican as he does for a Democrat.
Hypocrite
Black Guy ain’t President
I will beat this drum until the day he dies: we're spending too much time wondering about the president's mental health and not enough worrying about the demons that are driving McConnell to be like this.
Trump and the GOP are campaigning, Trump has announced and is holding regular election rallies. As per the senatemajldr rule. No SCOTUS votes allowed until after hearing in 2021. RepublicanReich
Hmmm. Wonder what's changed since 2016. I just can't put my finger on it.
evanperez Why isn't that old dog dead yet?
Of course he will... evil McConnell darthtrump
Not a reversal President and Senate now of the same party Before it was Split government
evanperez Who's suprised
senatemajldr
Oh come the fuck on CNN
What’s that big lump on his neck? Is he sick?
Democrats need to take back the Senate
And this is why McConnell is such a hypocritical little shit. He knows his staggering hypocrisy and bad faith will garner weak ass coverage like this, from outlets incapable of seeing beyond “the game” of politics.
Having entered the hen house, I will eat another hen, says the fox.
Turtle head needs to resign
Because of course. Republicans are completely unprincipled in their quest for a one party system.
Of course he would. Was there ever a doubt?
I bet ole Mitch tried to con the Devil when he sold his soul. He's the poster child for why we need term limits in Congress.
The least stunning reversal ever.
Elections have Consequences
Stunning. To think he changed his mind LOLOLOL
tfw you do some soul searching and discover you’re a rotting gourd
Wow got em
As he should
Pathetic excuse for a human. Absolutely black soul.
JoeBiden these are the people who you say you can work with, that you can find a middle ground with. How? How can you say that? They will not ever play fair. They will not ever compromise. I desperately want to believe in a middle ground, but you won’t find it with them.
Of course he would, it was never about anything other than he wanted to have the power.
It's not hypocrisy, it's a power grab
That's what the Democrats want
Up to his tricks again. I hope he gets blocked like he blocked someone I know
Lock him up!
Oh, well, isn’t this a shock?
😡😡😡😡
Does this surprise anyone? Anyone at all? Mitch McConnell is pond scum. The day he dies I’ll buy a round of drinks for the entire bar.
Every reporter who treated McConnell's arguments about why he shouldn't give Garland a hearing as serious and made in good faith owes your viewers an apology.
jrsy112 It's not a reversal it's completely consistent with his character and goals
senatemajldr doesn’t know which way the piss comes out.
He is the worst. I hope to God he loses
Is anyone really surprised that the GOP would do an about face on anything they’ve done within the last 6 years? These fucken guys are scumbags only the 1% has benefited from the realDonaldTrump presidency.
It’s not a reversal. Obama was guaranteed to be gone. Trump is not. Also power has privileges.
“A reversal”? You’ve got to be kidding. This headline is pathetic and how CNN does not call this out as just vile hypocrisy is beyond belief.
almost as if the special rule he made up for garland was total bullcrap
Good.. good.. love it.
Calvinball!
So, you call this ‘a reversal’ CNN?
Burn. It. Down. The whole fucking thing. It's time.
Hopefully McConnell won't have the opportunity
What needs to be filled is his seat by someone else.
No one in the world is surprised that senatemajldr is a crooked authoritarian.
'The grim reaper of democratic legislation'. This is who Mitch is.
Retire already. Guy is old as dirt.
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