Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell )R-KY) pledged, Monday, not to support a Biden Supreme Court nominee if President Joe Biden appoints someone to the bench in 2023 to 2024, ahead of the next presidential election, prompting Democrats and leading progressives to demand Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retire at the end of this term.
On Monday, McConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt that he is unlikely to advance a Supreme Court nominee through the Senate process if Republicans take back the Senate in 2022, blocking Biden from replacing any sitting Justice and potentially leaving a seat on the Court vacant until after the next presidential election, similar to the way that he handled Merrick Garland’s nomination to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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