McConnell Says Blocking Obama Supreme Court Pick Led to Overturning Roe

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

(Bloomberg) -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his decision to block former President Barack Obama from filling a Supreme Court vacancy after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016 led directly to the reversal of the Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

“It’s the single-most consequential decision I’ve made in my public career,” McConnell said Wednesday in remarks at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon in his home state of Kentucky.

McConnell said his refusal to consider Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the court 11 months before Donald Trump took office cleared the way for Trump to put conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch on the bench. Trump’s subsequent nominations of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett -- have transformed the court’s rulings by creating a court with a 6-3 conservative majority, he said.

He spoke just days after that Supreme Court majority overturned the 49-year-old Roe v. Wade. McConnell said Roe “had no basis in the Constitution whatsoever,” and said last week’s ruling “was a huge step in the right direction.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-says-blocking-obama-supreme-court-pick-led-to-overturning-roe/ar-AAZ0izg

Well Moscow Mitch, the country disagrees with you by a 2 to 1 majority. You need to stay somewhat mainstream if you want to maintain power.

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Yep, he played the game masterfully.

He’s a fucking utter piece of shit but you can’t take away his political savvy. He played to win and he did. Probably the most significant American political figure in modern history.

I hate his guts.

[Solly Mack]

2. Well, again.

[Claustrum]

3. He isn't wrong by saying that though.

If it was a 5:4 court, I am confident Roberts wouldn't want to be the deciding vote to vote down RvW. So stealing Obama's seat was crucial for how this turned out. Not to mention I think RBG would have retired if McTurtle didn't pull that stunt.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. And less than half of Kentucky voters chose him over Amy McGrath.

More like one-quarter of KY voters.

[applegrove]

6. And after he pulled that stunt RBG could not retire in the next few months of the Obama WH.

I don't know if she was planning to but McConnell stopped her effectively from retiring too.

[tritsofme]

8. The best time for her to have retired was before 2015.

[applegrove]

9. Yes that too. But she was locked into staying on once McConnell did what he did.

There may have been pressure on her to retire at the start of 2016 otherwise.

[npk]

7. No shit McConnell

Nobody thought otherwise. You are slime ball and shit stain on our congress.

[bucolic_frolic]

10. Confession

Kirschner said recently Obama should have given him 30 days and then seated Garland with tacit consent by Mitch not doing his job.

[SYFROYH]

11. It was quite the political gambit considering most people thought HRC would win.

Fuck Mitch.

[pecosbob]

12. Thank you Mitch for the justification we need to raise the number of SC justices next term

[drmeow]

13. I would pay money

to see that man executed.

[MichMan]

14. I'm not sure it would have made s big difference had Garland got a vote

The Republicans would have just voted him down anyway. Same end result either way.

[IcyPeas]

15. Mitch has 3 daughters....

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216848279

snip:

Porter McConnell has also publicly criticized the Senate’s confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh, which her father considers one of his greatest achievements. On Twitter, she accused Kavanaugh’s supporters of misogyny, and retweeted a post from StandWithBlaseyFord, a Web site supporting Christine Blasey Ford, one of Kavanaugh’s accusers. The husband of McConnell’s middle daughter, Claire, has also criticized Kavanaugh online, and McConnell’s eldest daughter, Eleanor, is a registered Democrat.