McConnell's Supreme Court hypocrisy takes an outlandish turn
As a bipartisan majority in the Senate prepares to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell complained yesterday that Democrats not only support the wrong nominee, they also have the wrong ideas about the separation of powers in general. From the Kentucky Republican’s remarks on the Senate floor:
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With this in mind, McConnell made the case yesterday that the problem with the left and its approach to the judiciary is that liberals see the justices as super-legislators: If Democrats can’t get what they want through Congress’ legislative process, those rascals simply look a block to the east and pursue those same goals by trying to persuade likeminded justices.
What’s amazing to me about this is the degree to which the Senate GOP leader has this backwards.
For example, congressional Republicans said they wanted to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. When they failed to convince 218 House members and 60 senators of their position, GOP lawmakers tried to cross the street — three times — in the hopes of persuading five justices to roam through policy questions and give Republicans what they wanted.
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Hence why I often refer to him as mealy mouthed Moscow Mitch.
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