On Monday, speaking on the Senate floor, despite the stream of threats aimed at President Trump and the GOP, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated confidently of filling the Supreme Court vacancy left after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: “We’re going to vote on this nomination on this floor.”
McConnell tweaked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asserting, “Ironically, it was the Democratic leader who went out of his way to declare the midterm 2018 elections a referendum on the Senate’s handling of the Supreme Court. My friend, the occupant of the chair, was running that year. The Democratic leader went out of his way to declare the 2018 midterms a referendum on the Senate’s handling of the Supreme Court. In his final speech, before Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed, he yelled, literally yelled, over and over at the American people to go vote. He told Americans go elect senators based on how they’d approach their advise and consent duties over these weeks.”
McConnell said succinctly, “Unfortunately for him, many Americans did just that,” as he let a trace of a grin appear on his face.
“After watching the Democrats’ tactics, voters grew our majority and retired, four, four! of our former colleagues who’d gone a long with their party’s behavior,” McConnell continued. “We gained two seats; they lost four. That was the issue. Perhaps more than any other single issue, the American people strengthened this Senate majority to keep confirming this president’s impressive judicial nominees who respect our Constitution and understand the proper role of a judge.”
“In 2014, the voters elected our majority because we pledged to check and balance a second lame-duck president,” McConnell pointed out. “Two years later, we kept our word. In 2018, the voters grew that majority on our pledge to continue working with President Trump, most especially on his outstanding judicial appointments. We’re going to keep our word once again. We’re going to vote on this nomination on this floor.”
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On Monday afternoon, statements from two GOP senators seemed to cinch the success of a Trump nominee for the Supreme Court, as senators Charles Grassley and Cory Gardner stated they would support a vote on a nominee.
Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News reported of Iowa GOP senator Charles Grassley, “Grassley will push forward with filling the US Supreme Court vacancy. ‘&#8230;make no mistake: if the shoe were on the other foot, Senate Democrats wouldn’t hesitate to use their Constitutional authority and anything else at their disposal to fill this seat,&#8221;’ he says in a statement.”
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Grassley will push forward with filling the US Supreme Court vacancy. &quot;&#8230;make no mistake: if the shoe were on the other foot, Senate Democrats wouldn’t hesitate to use their Constitutional authority and anything else at their disposal to fill this seat,&quot; he says in a statement.
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Roughly 40 minutes later, Andrew Desiderio of Politico released news of Colorado GOP senator Cory Gardner: “BREAKING: McConnell locks in Sen. Cory Gardner ‘I have and will continue to support judicial nominees who will protect our Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and uphold the law. Should a qualified nominee who meets this criteria be put forward, I will vote to confirm.’”
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BREAKING: McConnell locks in Sen. Cory Gardner
“I have and will continue to support judicial nominees who will protect our Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and uphold the law. Should a qualified nominee who meets this criteria be put forward, I will vote to confirm.”
&mdash; Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) <a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1308180117412294656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Monday afternoon, two GOP senators whom Democrats were hoping would break with the Senate GOP and reject supporting President Trump nominating a judge to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death issued statements in which they sided with the GOP, making it much more likely that a Trump nominee would be confirmed.
Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News reported of Iowa GOP senator Charles Grassley, “Grassley will push forward with filling the US Supreme Court vacancy. ‘&#8230;make no mistake: if the shoe were on the other foot, Senate Democrats wouldn’t hesitate to use their Constitutional authority and anything else at their disposal to fill this seat,’ he says in a statement.”
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Grassley will push forward with filling the US Supreme Court vacancy. &quot;&#8230;make no mistake: if the shoe were on the other foot, Senate Democrats wouldn’t hesitate to use their Constitutional authority and anything else at their disposal to fill this seat,&quot; he says in a statement.
&mdash; Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) <a href="https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1308169281029324800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Roughly 40 minutes later, Andrew Desiderio of Politico released news of Colorado GOP Senator Cory Gardner: “BREAKING: McConnell locks in Sen. Cory Gardner ‘I have and will continue to support judicial nominees who will protect our Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and uphold the law. Should a qualified nominee who meets this criteria be put forward, I will vote to confirm.’”
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BREAKING: McConnell locks in Sen. Cory Gardner
“I have and will continue to support judicial nominees who will protect our Constitution, not legislate from the bench, and uphold the law. Should a qualified nominee who meets this criteria be put forward, I will vote to confirm.”
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The GOP currently has 53 members of the Senate, which means they could afford to lose three votes and still gain a tie vote over a nomination; tie votes in the Senate are broken by the Vice-President of the United States. Two GOP senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have already indicated they would not stand with the GOP if Trump nominated someone for the Supreme Court vacancy and would not support taking up a vote before Election Day.
Murkowski <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/20/politics/lisa-murkowski-supreme-court-election-day/index.html">stated on Sunday</a>, &#8220;For weeks, I have stated that I would not support taking up a potential Supreme Court vacancy this close to the election. Sadly, what was then a hypothetical is now our reality, but my position has not changed. I did not support taking up a nomination eight months before the 2016 election to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Justice Scalia. We are now even closer to the 2020 election &#8212; less than two months out &#8212; and I believe the same standard must apply.&#8221;
Collins said in a <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1307412600397987842">statement</a> Saturday: &#8220;In fairness to the American people, who will either be re-electing the President or selecting a new one, the decision on a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court should be made by the President who is elected on November 3rd.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/20/mcconnell-supreme-court-votes-murkowski-alexander-418910">Politico</a> reported on Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had stated long ago he would favor filling a vacancy on the court if that eventuated before Election Day, was assiduously locking down GOP votes already:
<blockquote>McConnell (R-Ky.) won the support of Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), who is retiring and was viewed as a potential swing vote as McConnell seeks to confirm Ginsburg‘s replacement as soon as possible. … Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), a member of McConnell’s leadership team, also backed the majority leader over the weekend, as did Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a moderate.</blockquote>
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On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued an impassioned and heartfelt speech on the Senate floor honoring the late-Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her steadfast commitment to her office and her ability to befriend those with whom she disagreed.
Speaking in his famous slow and steady cadence, McConnell hailed the late-justice as an &#8220;exceptional American life&#8221; who climbed over obstacles and mountains to achieve her position in America&#8217;s highest court.
&#8220;Our nation is mourning the end of an exceptional American life,&#8221; said McConnell. &#8220;Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg meant so much to our country. First and foremost, she was a brilliant generational, legal mind who climbed past one obstacle after another to summit the very pinnacle of her profession. Justice Ginsburg was a fixture on our nation&#8217;s highest court for more than a quarter of a century. She was not just a lawyer, but a leader.  From majority opinions to impassioned dissent, her life&#8217;s work will not only continue to shape jurisprudence, but also enlightened scholars and students for generations. By all accounts, Justice Ginsburg loved her work because she loved the law.&#8221;
McConnell went on to extoll Ginsburg for her courage and steadfast commitment to excellence despite battling a series of life-threatening illnesses, saying it was a befitting climax to any heroic story. However, his most gentle words were reserved for the justice&#8217;s ability to find kinship with her ideological opposites, most especially, the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
&#8220;On the court, Justice Ginsburg was a universally-admired colleague,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No wonder that so many Americans have taken particular comforts in these past days by remembering her famous friendship with her ideological opposite, the late Justice Scalia.  Together, they made sure the halls of justice would also reign with laughter and comedy. They rarely sat on the same side of a high profile decision, but they still sat together at the opera and most any other time they could manage to be together.&#8221;
After praising Ginsburg&#8217;s commitment to overcoming sexism and plowing through barrier after barrier in her rise to the top, helping &#8220;entire generations of talented women build their lives as they saw fit,&#8221; McConnell then praised Ruth Bader Ginsburg for being a unitive figure in a time of tremendous divisiveness.
&#8220;While Justice Ginsburg relished forceful writing and detailed argument, she was also in important ways a uniter,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;In recent years, many people who consider themselves for admires, might wish to claim the justice for their political side, have come to embrace reckless proposals to politicize the very structure of the court itself. But Justice Ginsburg remained unswerving in her public commitment to preserving the neutral foundation of the institution she loved. The entire senate is united in thinking of and praying for Justice Ginsburg&#8217;s family.&#8221;
Justice Ginsburg died last Friday due to complications from pancreatic cancer just a little over 10 years after the death of her husband Martin of 56 years.
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&#8220;Furious&#8221; Democrats are considering &#8220;total war&#8221; next session if Republican press through and fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s vacant Supreme Court seat, <a href="https://www.axios.com/democrats-supreme-court-ginsburg-options-871f3e66-e7a4-4f40-9691-d20de1f4be61.html">Axios reports</a> &#8212; and their plans may even include adding states to the union to ensure their permanent control of Congress.
Some Democrats, like Senate Judiciary Committee member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), have made clear that they believe no response is off the table if President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell follow through with plans to fill the seat with fewer than 50 days until the November presidential election. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) even noted Sunday that her caucus is considering pursuing impeachment, either a second round against Trump or a first attempt to oust Attorney General William Barr.
&#8220;Well, we have our options,&#8221; Pelosi said. &#8220;We have arrows in our quiver that I&#8217;m not about to discuss right now.&#8221;
Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA), among others, threatened to pack the Supreme Court with additional seats, a strategy Ginsburg herself opposed. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) reportedly agreed, noting on Twitter that, &#8220;If Sen. McConnell and @SenateGOP were to force through a nominee during the lame-duck session — before a new Senate and President can take office — then the incoming Senate should immediately move to expand the Supreme Court.&#8221;
Democrats have tried before to expand the court to no avail and Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, whose signature as president would be required to move forward with an act expanding the number of seats on the Supreme Court says he opposes &#8220;court-packing,&#8221; according <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-faces-growing-democratic-calls-to-expand-supreme-court-11600641858">to The Wall Street Journal</a>. He would have to be convinced the move was correct.
But court-packing isn&#8217;t their only plan.
According to Axios, Democrats are also considering two major changes to Congress itself that could work to keep them in control &#8212; and in the majority in both Houses &#8212; for years to come. &#8220;Adding Supreme Court justices &#8230; eliminating the Senate&#8217;s 60-vote threshold to end filibusters &#8230; and statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico,&#8221; are all on the table, Axios says.
&#8220;Democrats are talking anew about pushing statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico. Capturing the anything-goes spirit among Democrats amid the Supreme Court fight, one party strategist texted me: &#8216;Guam want in?'&#8221; the outlet noted.
Ending the filibuster was already on the table before Ginsburg passed from complications of pancreatic cancer late Friday. As of early last week, Democrats were already compiling a &#8220;war room&#8221; tasked with laying the groundwork to wage an all-out war on the Senate filibuster in bullish anticipation of sweeping the 2020 election and passing an ambitious progressive agenda,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/democratic-insiders-set-war-room-quickly-kill-filibuster-n1239920">per NBC News</a>.
&#8220;Veteran party operatives, activist groups and supportive senators are coordinating message and strategy to dial up the pressure to quickly end the 60-vote threshold early next year, fearing that preservation of the rule will enable Republicans to kill Joe Biden’s legislative agenda in its cradle,&#8221; the outlet added.
The White House says that it plans to announce Ginsburg&#8217;s potential replacement as early as Wednesday. McConnell has already said he plans to shepherd the nominee through the process and have a new Supreme Court Justice confirmed by election day.
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&quot;Furious&quot; Democrats are considering &quot;total war&quot; next session if Republican press through and fill Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#039;s vacant Supreme Court seat,

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Democrats opened their wallets in the 24 hours following Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s death, giving more than $95 million using the ActBlue fundraising platform alone, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/09/19/democratic-campaign-donations-spike-after-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-death/5839031002/">USA Today reports</a>.
&#8220;Record-breaking money poured in from the political left to Democratic candidates after the death Friday of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as Democrats braced for a nomination fight before the presidential election and looked to build momentum for a Senate takeover,&#8221; the outlet noted Saturday.
&#8220;The liberal-backed ActBlue – a donation-processing site that helps Democratic candidates, committees, and organizations raise money – reported more than $95 million raised from the time Ginsburg&#8217;s death was announced until Sunday morning,&#8221; USA Today continued.
ActBlue reported that progressive donors &#8220;gave $6.3 million in just one hour late Friday,&#8221; after the Supreme Court released a statement announcing that the 87-year-old Ginsburg has passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/517267-democrats-see-donor-surge-after-ginsburgs-death">according to The Hill</a>. The platform clocked an additional $70.6 million in donations on Saturday. In all, around 1.2 million individuals gave to Democratic campaigns using the ActBlue mechanism.
&#8220;The previous daily record was nearly $42 million,&#8221; The Hill added. &#8220;The previous hourly record was a little more than $4 million.&#8221;
Credit for the fundraising success goes to Democratic and left-leaning activists who wasted no time in politicizing Ginsburg&#8217;s passing, launching and advertising major fundraising initiatives almost immediately after the justice’s death was confirmed.
Former Obama administration officials who now back &#8220;Crooked Media&#8221; promoted an ongoing effort to raise money &#8220;for 13 Democratic Senate candidates in battleground races,&#8221; per USA Today. The campaign, called &#8220;Get Mitch or Die Trying,&#8221; has raised around $20 million of its $26 million goals, though it does not target the Senate Majority Leader directly. That race is a longshot; McConnell leads his Democratic opponent by a 2-to-1 margin.
Democratic strategists told USA Today that they would prefer the money raised to target McConnell be funneled toward a more universal organization, like the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: &#8220;Yes, Mitch McConnell is up for reelection right now, but he’s still holding a double-digit lead despite Amy McGrath getting a ton of money,&#8221; one prominent Democrat told the outlet. &#8220;If you want to beat him, focus instead on denying him a majority in the Senate. Donate to the @dscc.&#8221;
There are also concerns over how progressive groups, who are also raising money off Ginsburg&#8217;s death, plan to spend the largesse. Many have already said they will target millions toward a Republican effort to fill Ginsburg&#8217;s vacant seat. Demand Justice, one such progressive group, plans to splash out more than $10 million on ads &#8220;aimed at preventing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8216;s Supreme Court seat from being filled until after the presidential inauguration in January,&#8221; <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/517195-progressive-group-to-spend-10-million-in-ad-campaign-on-supreme">according to The Hill</a>.
Right-leaning groups also begged for donations over the weekend but have yet to release any information on fundraising totals.
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Former President Bill Clinton criticized the Republican push to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as hypocritical evidence of their love of power, during <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/09/20/sotu-clinton-cynicism.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a Sunday interview with CNN host Jake Tapper</a>.
Regarding his thoughts about the expressed intention of President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to move forward with a female nominee this week, Clinton said, &#8220;Well, of course it’s superficially hypocritical, isn’t it?&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, Mitch McConnell wouldn’t give President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, a hearing ten months before the presidential election,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;And that meant that we went a long time with eight judges on the court. This is what they do. I think that, you know, [both for] Senator McConnell and President Trump, their first value is power, and they’re trying to jam the court with as many ideological judges as they can.&#8221;
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“To be fair,&#8221; Clinton went on, &#8220;there is a case to be made for the argument McConnell made that, in the middle of a presidential season, you should give the voters a say. That&#8217;s what he said when it was ten months away. But when the shoe&#8217;s on the other foot and he wants the judge, we&#8217;re fewer than 50 days away, and that argument doesn&#8217;t cut any mustard.&#8221;
Clinton predicted that McConnell&#8217;s decision will &#8220;further spread cynicism in our system,&#8221; and recalled how Abraham Lincoln didn&#8217;t appoint a replacement for Chief Justice Roger Taney until after the 1864 presidential election. &#8220;Senator McConnell said before he thought the people were entitled to a say. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s happened to make him stop trusting the American people, but apparently when it&#8217;s to his advantage, the people are not entitled to a say.”
Seeming to suggest that the Republican senators are motivated solely by political power, Clinton continued, &#8220;McConnell said what he said. Lindsey Graham said it shouldn’t happen. Let&#8217;s see how he votes. &#8230; I mean, this is a, you know, it’s a power play, and they think they can do it.&#8221;
Clinton demurred on offering an opinion on whether Democrats should add more justices to the Supreme Court, but again urged McConnell to wait until after the election. &#8220;I think it would be good for Senator McConnell to make him feel better when he gets up in the morning if he proved that he wasn&#8217;t being a hypocrite at the time and he just stuck with his position. I think all other Republicans should be asked to do the same. But you can&#8217;t keep a democracy if there is one set of rules for one group and another set for everybody else.&#8221;
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released a statement on Friday that read in part, “In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year.”
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise,” McConnell continued.
He added, “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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The Senate and the nation mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.
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‘Their First Value Is Power’: Bill Clinton Calls GOP Push To Fill SCOTUS Seat ‘Superficially Hypocritical’

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Protesters, demanding that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) refrain from filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s now-vacant seat on the United States Supreme Court, &#8220;occupied&#8221; parts of his neighborhood Saturday and at least one demonstrator was arrested, though the anemic protest disbanded after just three hours.
After an abortive march to McConnell&#8217;s Washington, D.C., residents Friday night &#8212; McConnell was not home to witness the event &#8212; Democrats and progressive activists pledged to target the Senate Majority Leader&#8217;s Louisville, Kentucky, home. It was not clear on Saturday that McConnell was present at that residence, either.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-pledge-ongoing-protests-over-rbg-replacement-target-mitch-mcconnells-homes-in-dc-ky">The Daily Wire reported</a>, &#8220;Democrats and, particularly, progressive activists have pledged ongoing protests targeting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his plan to shepherd a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg through the Senate confirmation process ahead of the November presidential election.&#8221;
They made good on their pledge.
&#8220;At least one protester was arrested Saturday after a group of about 100 people gathered outside&#8221; McConnell&#8217;s home Saturday, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mitch-mcconnells-kentucky-home-targeted-in-supreme-court-vacancy-protest">Fox News reported</a>. &#8220;&#8216;Ruth Sent Us,&#8217; and &#8216;No Ethics No Shame,&#8217; read some of the signs carried by crowd members in Louisville&#8230;&#8217;Hey-hey, ho-ho, Mitch McConnell has got to go,&#8217; others chanted.&#8221;
The protest, though, was short-lived &#8212; it ended after just three hours &#8212; and largely low-key.
&#8220;One protester was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and improper parking, after police determined she used a pharmacy parking lot without planning to patronize the store,&#8221; per Fox, citing the Louisville Courier-Journal. Police confronted several other protesters who parked cars in &#8220;no parking&#8221; zones on the residential streets surrounding McConnell&#8217;s home.
The group also pressed for locals to vote against McConnell in November. He is running against Democrat Amy McGrath and currently leads McGrath by a 2-to-1 margin.
McConnell is front and center in the fight over whether to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat, left empty when Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away from complications of pancreatic cancer on Friday at age 87.
Democrats say McConnell should abide by Republicans&#8217; 2016 pledge to keep a seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia open pending the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, despite then-President Barack Obama&#8217;s decision to nominate Merrick Garland to the bench.
McConnell, in contrast, has pledged to shepherd a Supreme Court nominee through the Senate confirmation process if President Donald Trump appoints one &#8212; something the president is expected to do sometime this week.
McConnell says he&#8217;s changing his position on the issue “because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise.”
“Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary,” he added in a statement. “Once again, we will keep our promise.”
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Protesters ‘Occupy’ Mitch McConnell’s Louisville Home Over Plan To Fill Supreme Court Seat, One Arrested

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If you&#8217;ve been following the media coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s death, then you&#8217;ve heard a million times what Republicans like Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in 2016.
After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, both the Senate majority leader from Kentucky and the South Carolina senator said a replacement should not be seated until after the presidential election.
But then-Vice President Joe Biden said otherwise at the time, declaring that the president had a &#8220;constitutional duty&#8221; to seat a justice on the high court when a vacancy arises.
&#8220;The president has the constitutional duty to nominate; the Senate has the constitutional obligation to provide advice and consent,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/joe-biden-the-senates-duty-to-advise-and-consent.html">wrote</a> in a New York Times op-ed in 2016.
&#8220;It is written plainly in the Constitution that both presidents and senators swear an oath to uphold and defend,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;That’s why I was so surprised and saddened to see Republican leaders tell President Obama and me that they would not even consider a Supreme Court nominee this year. No meetings. No hearings. No votes. Nothing. It is an unprecedented act of obstruction. And it risks a stain on the legacy of all those complicit in carrying out this plan.&#8221;
In a speech at Georgetown University, Biden also said: &#8220;I would go forward with a confirmation process as chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires.&#8221;
Biden has made a 180-degree turn with the death of Ginsburg, writing on Twitter on Friday: &#8220;Let me be clear: The voters should pick a President, and that President should select a successor to Justice Ginsburg.&#8221;
The vice president was echoing the words of his boss, former president Barack Obama. After Scalia&#8217;s death, Obama declared that he had a duty to nominate a successor.
&#8220;The Constitution vests in the President the power to appoint judges to the Supreme Court. It’s a duty that I take seriously, and one that I will fulfill in the weeks ahead,&#8221; Obama <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/a-responsibility-i-take-seriously/">wrote</a> in 2016.
Obama said he was looking for a replacement with a &#8220;sterling record, deep respect for the judiciary’s role, an understanding of the way the world really works.&#8221;
&#8220;That’s what I’m considering as I fulfill my constitutional duty to appoint a judge to our highest court.  And as Senators prepare to fulfill their constitutional responsibility to consider the person I appoint, I hope they’ll move quickly to debate and then confirm this nominee so that the Court can continue to serve the American people at full strength,&#8221; Obama wrote.
But like Biden, Obama has flip-flopped on the issue &#8212; now that a Republican president is in office and the GOP controls the Senate.
&#8220;Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in,&#8221; he wrote in a <a href="https://obama.medium.com/my-statement-on-the-passing-of-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-5a925b627457">statement</a>.
<blockquote>A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. The questions before the Court now and in the coming years — with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures — are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.</blockquote>
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Biden In 2016: President Has ‘Constitutional Duty’ To Fill Vacant Supreme Court Seat

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Democrat senators, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), on Saturday threatened that “nothing is off the table” if Republicans hold a vote on a new Supreme Court Justice before the election.
CNN’s senior congressional correspondent Manu Raju reported that Schumer told Democrats on a call: “Let me be clear: if Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table.”
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Schumer tells Dems: “Let me be clear: if Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table,” per source on call
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Twenty minutes later, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) made the same threat, tweeting, “If Republicans recklessly &amp; reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.”
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If Republicans recklessly &amp; reprehensibly force a SCOTUS vote before the election—nothing is off the table.
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The threat leaves open the possibility of packing the Supreme Court, an idea many Democratic presidential candidates said they were at least open to. Left-wing media outlets have also published numerous articles suggesting that’s exactly how Democrats should respond if Republicans install a new Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday evening. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, however, previously said he was not open to court packing.
The fact that Democrats and their media supporters are so open to court packing shows they only care about the judicial body if it is on their side, tweeted National Review editor Rich Lowry.
“That the Left has taken up court-packing so readily shows how it never really took the court seriously as a court—instead it has thought of it primarily as a quasi-legislative body useful to the extent it enshrines its policy goals,” Lowry tweeted Saturday night.
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That the Left has taken up court-packing so readily shows how it never really took the court seriously as a court—instead it has thought of it primarily as a quasi-legislative body useful to the extent it enshrines its policy goals
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Democrats are still sore over Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) 2016 refusal to hold a vote on then-President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. McConnell argued at the time that since the 2016 election would install a new president &#8212; either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump &#8212; the “American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” adding that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
At the time, Democrats controlled the White House and Republicans controlled the Senate following multiple elections where Democrats lost majorities during Obama’s terms. In 2020, Republicans control the White House and the Senate, making the two situations distinct. Obama exercised his right to nominate a new Supreme Court Justice, and Republicans in the Senate exercised their right not to hold a vote. Obama had no right to get his nominee appointed just because he was nominated.
In 2016, when Obama nominated a left-leaning judge, Ginsburg herself argued the Senate should hold a vote on the nominee, saying: “There&#8217;s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.” She also said during this same interview that “Eight is not a good number,” referring to the remaining number of Supreme Court justices.
Following Ginsburg’s death, McConnell released a statement explaining the differences between the two years.
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promises,” McConnell added. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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A solid majority of Americans across the political spectrum support holding hearings for Supreme Court nominees during a presidential year, according to a poll conducted just a few days ago.
A new Marquette Law School national survey found that solid majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents indicated that if a seat was vacated during an election year that hearings should take place.
&#8220;In this poll, conducted in the days before Ginsburg’s death, a substantial majority of respondents of both parties say that if a vacancy occurred during the 2020 election year, the Senate should hold hearings on a nominee, with 67 percent saying hearings should be held and 32 percent saying they should not be held,&#8221; Marquette Law School <a href="https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2020/09/19/public-views-of-justice-ginsburg-and-appointments-to-the-supreme-court/">said</a>. &#8220;Views on holding hearings do not vary much by partisanship.&#8221;
The poll found that 68 percent of Republicans, 71 percent of Independents, and 63 percent of Democrats indicated that there should be hearings held if a seat became vacated during a presidential election year.
This is bad news for Democrats as they desperately try to stop President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) from filling the seat vacated by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week at 87 years old. Democrats and leftists in the media have responded to the vacancy by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-figures-threaten-riots-if-gop-tries-to-fill-scotus-seat-burn-it-all-down">threatening</a> acts of violence and even <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-threatens-packing-supreme-court-in-response-to-mcconnell-trump-being-in-violation-of-rbg-wish">threatening</a> to undermine the legitimacy of the nation&#8217;s highest court by packing the court with judges that suit their ideology.
Ginsburg allegedly told her granddaughter that her dying wish was that she would “not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
However, Ginsburg said in 2016 — when Democrats were trying to fill a seat during an election year — that only having eight justices on the court was “not a good number.”
“That means no opinions and no precedential value; an equal division is essentially the same as a denial of review,” Ginsburg <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/eight-is-not-a-good-number-for-the-supreme-court-ginsburg-says/2016/05/26/3fa51666-237f-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html">said</a> on the issue of the Supreme Court only having eight justices. “Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.”
Trump gave a classy statement upon learning about Ginsburg&#8217;s passing as he spoke to a group of reporters with Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” playing in the background.
“She just died? Wow,” Trump said. “I didn’t know that. You’re telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say?”
“She was an amazing woman. Whether you agreed or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life,” Trump continued. “I’m saddened to hear that.”
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&#8220;Trump’s comments come after Democrat Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) completely skipped over honoring Ginsburg in his initial statement following her death, and instead jumped straight into politics,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-gives-classy-statement-on-ginsburgs-passing-avoids-politics-unlike-top-democrats">reported</a>. &#8220;In his first tweet on Ginsburg’s passing, Schumer wrote: &#8216;The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.'&#8221;
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reportedly went further than any other justice in voicing her displeasure that the Supreme Court had only eight justices following the death of Antonin Scalia in 2016 — an election year — calling it &#8220;not a good number.&#8221;
&#8220;The comments mark the furthest a sitting justice has gone, since the sudden death of the late Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this year, to signal that the court would function better with a fully staffed bench,&#8221; CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-eight-justices/index.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Ginsburg was giving an end of the term report to an audience of mostly judges of the Second Circuit Judicial Conference in New York.&#8221;
Ginsburg&#8217;s resurfaced remark follows her passing late last week after she lost her the fight against her fifth bout with cancer.
“That means no opinions and no precedential value; an equal division is essentially the same as a denial of review,” Ginsburg <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/eight-is-not-a-good-number-for-the-supreme-court-ginsburg-says/2016/05/26/3fa51666-237f-11e6-aa84-42391ba52c91_story.html">said</a> on the issue of the Supreme Court only having eight justices. “Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.”
Ginsburg&#8217;s resurfaced opinion also comes after she allegedly told her granddaughter that her dying wish was that a &#8220;new president&#8221; would be the one to replace her.
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,” Ginsburg allegedly said.
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Notice how RBG did not say, &quot;until after the election&quot; or &quot;until the next presidential term&quot;.
She said &quot;until a new president is installed,&quot; meaning one different than Trump.
She was specifically saying that she did not want Trump to be the one to replace her, even if he wins. <a href="https://t.co/9In1MMPota">https://t.co/9In1MMPota</a>
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-threatens-packing-supreme-court-in-response-to-mcconnell-trump-being-in-violation-of-rbg-wish">threatened</a> that Democrats may pack the court with leftist judges if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and President Donald Trump fill her seat because, as Ocasio-Cortez says, they would be in &#8220;violation of her dying wish.&#8221;
The Supreme Court released the following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-dying-wish-revealed-in-statement-to-granddaughter">statement</a> in response to Ginsburg’s death:
<blockquote>Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington, D.C., due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer. She was 87 years old. Justice Ginsburg was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Clinton in 1993. She was the second woman appointed to the Court and served more than 27 years. She is survived by her two children: Jane Carol Ginsburg (George Spera) and James Steven Ginsburg (Patrice Michaels), four grandchildren: Paul Spera (Francesca Toich), Clara Spera (Rory Boyd), Miranda Ginsburg, Abigail Ginsburg, two step-grandchildren: Harjinder Bedi, Satinder Bedi, and one greatgrandchild: Lucrezia Spera. Her husband, Martin David Ginsburg, died in 2010.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. said of Justice Ginsburg: “Our Nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her — a tireless and resolute champion of justice.”
Justice Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York, March 15, 1933. She married Martin D. Ginsburg in 1954. She received her B.A. from Cornell University, attended Harvard Law School, and received her LL.B. from Columbia Law School. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Edmund L. Palmieri, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, from 1959- 1961. From 1961- 1963, she was a research associate and then associate director of the Columbia Law School Project on International Procedure. She was a Professor of Law at Rutgers University School of Law from 1963-1972, and Columbia Law School from 1972- 1980, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California from 1977-1978. In 1971, she was instrumental in launching the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and served as the ACLU’s General Counsel from 1973-1980, and on the National Board of Directors from 1974-1980. She was appointed a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1980. During her more than 40 years as a Judge and a Justice, she was served by 159 law clerks.
While on the Court, the Justice authored My Own Words (2016), a compilation of her speeches and writings.
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RBG When Democrats Wanted To Fill SCOTUS Seat During 2016 Election Year: Eight ‘Not A Good Number’

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Democrats and, particularly, progressive activists have pledged ongoing protests targeting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over his plan to shepherd a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg through the Senate confirmation process ahead of the November presidential election.
Ginsburg passed away Friday at age 87 from complications of pancreatic cancer.
Both McConnell and President Donald Trump noted, early Saturday, that the White House will likely announce Ginsburg&#8217;s potential replacement this week, angering Democrats who prefer to wait for the outcome of the November election to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat.
Before either party had weighed in on the political consequences of Ginsburg&#8217;s death, protesters had amassed outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., for a part-vigil, part-demonstration against filling Ginsburg&#8217;s seat with a Republican appointee. After a number of speeches and an impromptu memorial, protesters called up the location of Mitch McConnell&#8217;s D.C. home and marched over.
McConnell, to their great disappointment, was not home at the time.
&#8220;His house is entirely dark,&#8221; Charlotte Clymer of the Truman Project tweeted. &#8220;Significant police presence out front. It’s clear that he’s not here, as confirmed by a neighbor who is not fond of him. People are going home.&#8221;
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His house is entirely dark. Significant police presence out front. It’s clear that he’s not here, as confirmed by a neighbor who is not fond of him. People are going home.
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That was hardly the end of the effort. By midnight Saturday morning, progressive activists had identified and located Mitch McConnell&#8217;s home in Louisville, Kentucky. At least one group is plotting a demonstration and potential &#8220;occupation&#8221; of McConnell&#8217;s neighborhood to begin Saturday, according to reports.
&#8220;A group of more than 100 protesters gathered outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s home Saturday in response to an announcement that the Kentucky legislator will push to quickly fill the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg,&#8221; the Louisville Courier-Journal noted Saturday. &#8220;Protesters lined the streets the next day in front of the senator&#8217;s home in the Belknap neighborhood shortly after noon, chanting &#8216;Hey hey, ho ho, Mitch McConnell has got to go&#8217; and &#8216;vote him out&#8217; as several passing drivers honked and waved support.&#8221;
The Women&#8217;s March, which has gone largely silent since changing leadership in light of allegations that several of the organizations &#8220;founders&#8221; were openly anti-Semitic, <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/womens-march-saturday-to-honor-rbg-outside-supreme-court">weighed in Saturday morning</a> announcing its own &#8220;vigil&#8221; at the Supreme Court building Saturday evening, to be followed by &#8220;satellite&#8221; vigils at courthouses across the country.
Oddly enough, Tamika Mallory, once of the ousted Women&#8217;s March leaders, was among those progressives seeking information on McConnell&#8217;s whereabouts.
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Several enterprising leftists coined a hashtag for the protest, &#8220;#GetMitchorDieTrying.&#8221; As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-figures-threaten-riots-if-gop-tries-to-fill-scotus-seat-burn-it-all-down">The Daily Wire reported Friday evening</a>, a handful of prominent progressives and media figures, including CNN&#8217;s Reza Aslan, also threatened to &#8220;riot&#8221; if McConnell did not drop his efforts to replace Ginsburg.
McConnell is unlikely to budge on the issue. In a statement, McConnell affirmed his intention to nominate and shepherd through a Ginsburg replacement.
&#8220;Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Once again, we will keep our promise.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-honors-ginsburgs-life-vows-to-hold-vote-on-trump-supreme-court-nominee">Related: McConnell Honors Ginsburg’s Life, Vows To Hold Vote On Trump Supreme Court Nominee</a>
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Dems Pledge Ongoing Protests Over RBG Replacement, Target Mitch McConnell’s Homes In DC, KY

Democrats and, particularly, progressive activists have pledged ongoing protests targeting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) over his plan to

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President Donald Trump set off a firestorm Saturday morning after tweeting his support for confirming a new Supreme Court Justice before the election on November 3 following Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday night.
In a tweet regarding the GOP, Trump said: &#8220;We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOP</a> We were put in this position of power and importance to make decisions for the people who so proudly elected us, the most important of which has long been considered to be the selection of United States Supreme Court Justices. We have this obligation, without delay!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1307321159113936896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ginsburg died due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer late Friday evening, prompting questions about whether Trump would name her successor prior to the election. Trump’s tweet appears to confirm that he will.
Earlier this month, Trump released a list of 20 additional names for his list of possible Supreme Court nominees, The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-list-of-20-potential-supreme-court-picks-if-re-elected-its-loaded-with-big-names">reported</a>:
<ul>
<li>Bridget Bade, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</li>
<li>Daniel Cameron, 51st Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky</li>
<li>Tom Cotton, U.S. Senator from Arkansas</li>
<li>Paul Clement, partner with Kirkland &amp; Ellis LLP</li>
<li>Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas</li>
<li>Stuart Kyle Duncan, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit</li>
<li>Steven Engel, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice</li>
<li>Noel Francisco, former Solicitor General of the United States</li>
<li>Josh Hawley, U.S. Senator from Missouri</li>
<li>James Ho, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit</li>
<li>Gregory Katsas, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</li>
<li>Barbara Lagoa, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit</li>
<li>Christopher Landau, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the United Mexican States</li>
<li>Carlos Muñiz, Justice on the Supreme Court of Florida</li>
<li>Martha Pacold, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois</li>
<li>Peter Phipps, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit</li>
<li>Sarah Pitlyk, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri</li>
<li>Allison Jones Rushing, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</li>
<li>Kate Todd, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel to the President</li>
<li>Lawrence VanDyke, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit</li>
</ul>
Trump’s tweet comes the morning after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-honors-ginsburgs-life-vows-to-hold-vote-on-trump-supreme-court-nominee">a statement</a> saying the Senate would hold a vote on potential justice nominated by Trump.
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell said.
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promises,” McConnell added. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
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Trump Tweets Support For Confirming New Supreme Court Justice Before Election

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President Donald Trump set off a firestorm Saturday morning after tweeting his support for confirming a new Supreme Court Justice before the election on

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly told Republican senators in a letter Friday evening to hold off on giving definitive answers to the media about how to handle the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, particularly if they don’t know how to answer or are leaning toward not holding a vote.
“Over the coming days, we are all going to come under tremendous pressure from the press to announce how we will handle the coming nomination,” said McConnell in a letter purportedly obtained by <a href="https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1307155643971833857?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">The Washington Post</a>. “For those of you who are unsure how to answer, or for those inclined to oppose giving a nominee a vote, I urge you all to keep your powder dry. This is not the time to prematurely lock yourselves into a position you may regret later.”
&#8220;Again, I urge you all to be cautious and keep your powder dry until we return to Washington,&#8221; he concluded later in the letter, reports the Post.
Although McConnell released a statement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-honors-ginsburgs-life-vows-to-hold-vote-on-trump-supreme-court-nominee">vowing to fill the vacancy left by Ginsburg</a> with a nominee from President Donald Trump, he declined to provide a timeline for it.
However, McConnell strongly suggested that such a nomination would come in Trump&#8217;s first term, in that he outlined the differences between waiting to fill the Supreme Court vacancy in 2016 and filling a vacancy under the current Senate in his public statement on Friday evening.
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” said McConnell.
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promises,” added McConnell, concluding: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
In statements honoring Ginsburg’s life on Friday evening, many Republican senators have declined to bring up the topic of filling court vacancies. However, Senators Martha McSally (R-AZ) and Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) have explicitly voiced support for the idea.
“This U.S. Senate should vote on President Trump&#8217;s next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court,” tweeted McSally, who earlier in the evening said Ginsburg “broke barriers” in her life and said that her prayers were with the late justice’s family.
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This U.S. Senate should vote on President Trump&#8217;s next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
— Martha McSally (@SenMcSallyAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMcSallyAZ/status/1307123253845032960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
“My prayers are with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s family at this difficult time. I will support President [Donald Trump] in nominating a strict constructionist before the election who will protect innocent life and safeguard conservative values,” tweeted Loeffler.
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My prayers are with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s family at this difficult time.
I will support President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> in nominating a strict constructionist before the election who will protect innocent life and safeguard conservative values.
— Senator Kelly Loeffler (@SenatorLoeffler) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorLoeffler/status/1307129349338992640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Report: McConnell Writes Letter To GOP Senators About SCOTUS Stances, Says ‘Keep Your Powder Dry’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reportedly told Republican senators in a letter Friday evening to hold off on giving definitive answers to

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, on Friday evening, in which he both honored the justice’s trailblazing legacy in American life and vowed to hold a vote for a Supreme Court nominee to replace her.
“The Senate and the nation mourn the sudden passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life,” said McConnell in a statement Friday evening. “Justice Ginsburg overcame one personal challenge and professional barrier after another. She climbed from a modest Brooklyn upbringing to a seat on our nation’s highest court and into the pages of American history.”
“Justice Ginsburg was thoroughly dedicated to the legal profession and to her 27 years of service on the Supreme Court,” he continued. “Her intelligence and determination earned her respect and admiration throughout the legal world, and indeed throughout the entire nation, which now grieves alongside her family, friends, and colleagues.”
After offering remarks on Ginsburg’s life, the Republican Senate Majority Leader mentioned the Supreme Court nomination process that played out after Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016. McConnell then vowed to bring a Supreme Court nominee of President Donald Trump’s up for a vote in the Senate. (As of publication, the White House has not announced one, but ABC News, citing several sources, reports that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-white-house-to-put-forward-scotus-nominee-in-the-coming-days">Supreme Court nominee may be coming</a> in the next few days).
“In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year,” McConnell continued.
“By contrast, Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promises,” McConnell said, concluding: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United State Senate.”
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The Senate and the nation mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.
My full statement: <a href="https://t.co/NOwYLhDxIk">pic.twitter.com/NOwYLhDxIk</a>
— Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr/status/1307121192516628480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
According to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-put-nominee-replace-justice-ruth-bader/story?id=73107862">ABC News</a>, “multiple sources close to the president and with direct knowledge of the situation” believe Trump will nominate someone to fill the Supreme Court vacancy in the coming days. At the time the report was published, it wasn’t clear whether the president was aware Ginsburg had died, as he was in the middle of a rally.
Earlier this month, Trump released a list of twenty additional potential Supreme Court picks, which included three sitting U.S. senators. The new additions can be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-list-of-20-potential-supreme-court-picks-if-re-elected-its-loaded-with-big-names">viewed here</a>.
Two members on the list, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), have expressed that they are not interested in the position. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) suggested that he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cotton-cruz-hawley-respond-after-trump-adds-them-to-list-of-potential-supreme-court-picks">open to the idea</a> of serving on the court.
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McConnell Honors Ginsburg’s Life, Vows To Hold Vote On Trump Supreme Court Nominee

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) released a statement following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 87, on Friday

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President Donald Trump will put forth a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away Friday evening from complications of pancreatic cancer, &#8220;in the coming days,&#8221; according to sources who spoke to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-put-nominee-replace-justice-ruth-bader/story?id=73107862&amp;fbclid=IwAR2_1pnpUMXWNf9NSYYBWjf8McCEf8qtzLPmpXCc83N9HXV95-eiMYlbRNs">ABC News</a>.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-dies-from-cancer-complications">The Daily Wire reported Friday evening</a>, the 87-year-old Justice Ginsburg passed away &#8220;from complications of metastatic pancreas cancer,&#8221; according to the Supreme Court.
“Our nation has lost a justice of historic stature,” Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement. “We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tired and resolute champion of justice.”
Speculation turned immediately to the vacancy left on the court as a result of Ginsburg&#8217;s death, as well as to whether the president and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would fulfill their promise to nominate a potential replacement immediately and begin Senate confirmation hearings as soon as possible, despite the looming presidential election.
Sources told ABC News that President Trump already has a &#8220;short list&#8221; of potential nominees and the White House will announce a finalist for the Court vacancy this week. The list includes United States Circuit Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a rising star who has been mentioned routinely as a front-runner to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy, despite having just been confirmed to her current position.
&#8220;President Donald Trump is expected to put forth a nominee to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s seat in the coming days, multiple sources close to the president and with direct knowledge of the situation told ABC News,&#8221; the outlet reported Friday. &#8220;The sources describe the list of potential nominees as very short and including at least one woman. U.S. Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett is seen as a leading contender, two sources tell ABC News.&#8221;
Barrett, a former clerk for late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
The president did release <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-list-of-20-potential-supreme-court-picks-if-re-elected-its-loaded-with-big-names">a list of potential Supreme Court nominees</a> earlier this week, but those were listed as &#8220;potential&#8221; picks for an upcoming vacancy.
ABC News also notes that Senator McConnell is on board with the president&#8217;s plans and is preparing his caucus for an impending announcement: &#8220;Sources add that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already been in touch with members of the Republican caucus after news of Ginsburg’s passing was announced.&#8221;
Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), tried to get out ahead of the president&#8217;s plans Friday night, suggesting that the White House stick to the so-called &#8220;Merrick Garland standard&#8221; — a reference to President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away in February of 2016. McConnell refused to bring Garland&#8217;s nomination to the Senate floor, preferring instead to wait for the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice,” Schumer tweeted. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
National Public Radio reported that Ginsburg&#8217;s dying wish was to be replaced by the next president.
“My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed,&#8221; she reportedly told family before passing away.
President Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are both expected to release statements on Ginsburg&#8217;s death Friday night.
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REPORT: White House To Put Forward SCOTUS Nominee ‘In The Coming Days’

President Donald Trump will put forth a nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away Friday evening from complications of

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Black Lives Matter protesters showed up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#8217;s home on Thursday night demanding money from coronavirus relief funds after Democrats killed a $500 billion coronavirus relief package.
&#8220;If we don&#8217;t get $600! [Crowd: No peace!] I said if we don&#8217;t get $600! [No peace!],&#8221; one of the activists with a bullhorn screamed. &#8221; I said if we don&#8217;t get $600! [No peace!] I said if we don&#8217;t get $600! [No peace!]&#8221;
&#8220;No $600! [Crowd: No peace!] No $600! [No peace!] No $600! [No peace!] No $600! [No peace!],&#8221; the activist continued to scream. &#8220;No healthcare! [No peace!] No healthcare! [No peace!] No healthcare! [No peace!] No healthcare! [No peace!]&#8221;
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&#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe!&#8221; the activist screamed. &#8221; I can&#8217;t breathe! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter! Black Lives Matter!&#8221;
&#8220;I need that money, and until I get that money, I&#8217;m going to be right here on C Street everyday until I get it,&#8221; the man continued. &#8220;No justice! [Crowd: No peace!] No justice! [No peace!] No healthcare! [No peace!] No healthcare! [No peace!]&#8221;
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Other footage from the incident showed the leftist activists demanding to know where their money was.
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Looks like Sen. Mitch McConnell has some guests over for dinner cc <a href="https://twitter.com/unemployaction?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@unemployaction</a> <a href="https://t.co/SxyQYoHGSP">pic.twitter.com/SxyQYoHGSP</a>
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Far-left activists have shown up to harass McConnell at his home in Kentucky before, which Twitter attempted to censor. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-forces-mcconnell-campaign-pull-video-james-barrett">reported</a> on August 7, 2019:
<blockquote>On Monday night, dozens of left-wing activists converged on the Louisville home of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to protest for gun control. Video of one of the protesters, Black Lives Matter activist Chanelle Helm, calling for violence against McConnell — initially posted on Facebook and then tweeted out by congressional staffer Ben Goldey — quickly went viral, retweeted by the McConnell re-election campaign and Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra. By Tuesday, Twitter had locked all three accounts until they pulled their posts featuring the video.
In the since-pulled video, which was first live-streamed on Facebook, one of the protesters says about McConnell’s recent shoulder injury that maybe someone is using a “voodoo doll” against the senator. Helm responds, “Just stab the motherf***er in the heart, please.” She went on to say she hopes he suffers “one of those heart attacks where they can’t breath, and they’re holding their chest and they fall backwards.” Instead of nursing a “broken arm” after his fall, she said, “he should have broken his raggedy, wrinkled-ass neck.”</blockquote>
McConnell has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-explodes-on-pelosi-for-ruining-stimulus-bill-that-protected-economy-families">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/are-you-kidding-me-mitch-mcconnell-shreds-democrats-in-fiery-senate-floor-speech">ripped</a> Democrats for playing games with the coronavirus spending while American families and businesses have suffered.
On Thursday afternoon, McConnell <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-on-democrats-blocking-covid-relief-they-want-no-help-for-american-families-before-the-election">appeared</a> on Fox News where he addressed Democrats&#8217; latest decision to kill stimulus spending to help Americans, which he said was part of their goal of providing &#8220;no help for American families before the election.&#8221;
“What part of this bill are they opposed to?” McConnell asked. “What we tried to do, Dana, was to craft a package that underscored the things that we supposedly agree on — kids in school, replenishing the popular small business loan program, which is out of money, more money for hospitals and covering unemployment insurance for another six months. What’s to not like about that?”
“What they’re saying is, we won’t pass things that we are even in favor of, unless you give us trillions more. The national debt is already the size of our economy for the first time since World War II,” McConnell continued. “We’re not going to squander funds here. We want to narrowly target the needs of the American people. That’s what this vote is about.”
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Coronavirus Relief Bill

BLM Activists Show Up Screaming At McConnell’s Home After Democrats Block Coronavirus Funds

Black Lives Matter

Coronavirus

COVID-19

Black Lives Matter protesters showed up to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#039;s home on Thursday night demanding money from coronavirus relief funds

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Senate Democrats on Thursday after they blocked COVID-19 relief funds, saying that their goal was to withhold help for American families until after the election.
&#8220;Every Senate Democrat just voted against hundreds of billions of dollars of COVID-19 relief,&#8221; McConnell wrote on Twitter. &#8220;They blocked money for schools, testing, vaccines, unemployment insurance, and the Paycheck Protection Program. Their goal is clear: No help for American families before the election.&#8221;
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Every Senate Democrat just voted against hundreds of billions of dollars of COVID-19 relief. They blocked money for schools, testing, vaccines, unemployment insurance, and the Paycheck Protection Program.
Their goal is clear: No help for American families before the election.
&mdash; Leader McConnell (@senatemajldr) <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr/status/1304107662750158848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2020</a></blockquote>
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McConnell later appeared on Fox News with host Dana Perino where he said that Democrats will not pass things that they themselves are in favor of unless they receive trillions in additional funds for their leftist agenda.
&#8220;What part of this bill are they opposed to?&#8221; McConnell asked. &#8220;What we tried to do, Dana, was to craft a package that underscored the things that we supposedly agree on &#8212; kids in school, replenishing the popular small business loan program, which is out of money, more money for hospitals and covering unemployment insurance for another six months. What’s to not like about that?&#8221;
&#8220;What they’re saying is, we won’t pass things that we are even in favor of, unless you give us trillions more. The national debt is already the size of our economy for the first time since World War II,&#8221; McConnell continued. &#8220;We’re not going to squander funds here. We want to narrowly target the needs of the American people. That’s what this vote is about.&#8221;
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ICYMI I joined <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaPerino?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaPerino</a> to discuss Speaker Pelosi &amp; Leader Schumer&#39;s continued efforts to block coronavirus relief funding for Americans. 
Every Senator who voted against relief needs to answer what in the proposal they actually disagreed with. Kids? Jobs? Healthcare? <a href="https://t.co/iuGc7fN01A">pic.twitter.com/iuGc7fN01A</a>
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<blockquote>DANA PERINO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Let’s bring in Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.
Senator McConnell, thanks so much for joining us.
You went&#8211;
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): Glad to be with you.
PERINO: &#8212; forward with this vote today knowing that the Democrats were not going to give you enough votes to get to 60 for it to move forward.
A lot of Americans are hurting, a lot of small businesses still need help, the schools absolutely need help in order to get opened. So if this bill doesn’t pass now, what’s the next step?
MCCONNELL: Well it’s a good question to ask the Democrats. What part of this bill are they opposed to?
What we tried to do, Dana, was to craft a package that underscored the things that we supposedly agree on &#8212; kids in school, replenishing the popular small business loan program, which is out of money, more money for hospitals and covering unemployment insurance for another six months. What’s to not like about that?
What they’re saying is, we won’t pass things that we are even in favor of, unless you give us trillions more. The national debt is already the size of our economy for the first time since World War II.
We’re not going to squander funds here. We want to narrowly target the needs of the American people. That’s what this vote is about.
PERINO: Would it be helpful to you if President Trump sort of put his shoulder behind this and pushed a little bit to make the Democrats realize that they could be on the losing end of the politics if they don’t do something like this skinnier bill?
MCCONNELL: Well the president supports what we’re trying to do. He’s behind us. He would like to tackle these challenges that are clearly necessary to be challenged, tackled, and should be done on a bipartisan basis &#8212; and needs to be done right now.
It makes you believe they really don’t want to do another proposal. They want to wait until after the election and play games with this.
What they passed in the House months ago was a $3 trillion wish list of liberal items, including tax cuts for rich people in New York and California. Really, that has nothing to do with COVID-19.
PERINO: Right. Yes.
I think one of the things that of course the White House is dealing with today is the fallout from this Woodward book.
One of the questions being, did the president downplay the issue of COVID? He says it’s because he didn’t want to panic people.
To you, sir, did you know how dangerous coronavirus was back in February?
MCCONNELL: Well, I haven’t read the Woodward book, but we all knew it was dangerous. The president knew it was dangerous, and I think took positive steps very early on, for which he should be applauded, not criticized.
PERINO: Want to play for you some sound from President Trump, because we are also in the middle of a presidential election. He had some strong words for one of your Senate colleagues, the vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEOCLIP)
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.: Biden has now formed an unholy alliance with the most extreme and dangerous elements of the radical left, you know that, with crazy Bernie and everyone.
And by the way, you know who’s further left than crazy Bernie? Kamala. Kamala.
(END VIDEOCLIP)
PERINO: Kamala Harris has been described as &#8212; by the Trump campaign &#8212; as the most liberal senator.
You’ve had an up close look at her voting, her career there in the Senate. Do you think that matches her description?
MCCONNELL: Yes, I think it’s accurate to say, and I’m sure she’d be proud to claim the mantel as the most liberal or one of the most liberal members of the Senate.
She’s been consistently in that place since she arrived and I doubt if she would dispute the president’s calling her the most liberal member of the Senate.
PERINO: We’ll see what she says out there on the campaign trail.
I also want to ask you about the state of the race. There’s a presidential race, but there’s a lot of Senate races out there too. And the majority for the Republicans it certainly hangs in the balance.
Josh Kraushaar of National Journal had a piece in which he said that things were tightening up, looking better for Republicans. Let me read to you from his piece and get your reaction.
Of the 15 competitive Senate races only two are contested in states that Hilary Clinton carried. Red-state senators like Joni Ernst of Iowa and Steve Daines of Montana took a big hit as the president’s fortunes declined. But as soft Republican voters are returning to the partisan fold, they’ve seen their numbers improve.
I know that you like to play things cautious. You always have. But are you feeling a little bit better about the Republicans being able to keep the majority this session?
MCCONNELL: Look, Dana, I feel the same way I did at the beginning of the cycle. We have a lot of exposure. This is the big, big class that took the majority back in 2014. I’ve got 23 members up. Democrats only have 12. We knew this was going to be a struggle.
I think it’s a 50/50 proposition. The outcome of the Senate could go either way. We have air tight races in Montana, Colorado, Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina, Maine and Georgia. It’s like a knife fight in an alley in every one of these places.
I feel good about where we are, but look none of these races are either lost or won at this point.
PERINO: Michigan looks better for you. Do you think &#8212; John James of course is an exciting candidate the Republicans have been excited about against the incumbent Gary Peters?
MCCONNELL: Yes, he’s a fabulous candidate. The Michigan race is the surprise race, the one to keep an eye on.
James is running a terrific campaign against the incumbent. He’s outraced him a number of quarters, which is quite unusual against an incumbent senator, for a challenger to do that. I’m very optimistic about our chances in Michigan.
PERINO: Then my last question for you is, if you could take a bigger picture look, what do you think the country would look like in two years if the Republicans were to lose the majority this November?
MCCONNELL: Well this is not your father’s Democratic Party. They’ve all gone hard left. They will get rid of the filibuster in the Senate, thereby eliminating the potential for any serious opposition.
They’ll admit the District of Columbia is a state and Puerto Rico is a state, giving them four new Democratic senators in perpetuity. They’ll pack the Supreme Court, the circuit courts, the district courts.
And then they’ll turn to the economy, they’ll over regulate and overtax, like they always do, and America won’t look two years later like it does today.
That’s what the Democrats have in mind. They need to be stopped. The Senate is the firewall against that sort of thing. And that’s what’s at stake for the American people if they choose to go in the other direction and give the Democrats the entire government.
PERINO: All right. Senator Mitch McConnell we appreciate your time. Thank you.
MCCONNELL: Thank you, Dana.</blockquote>
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McConnell On Democrats Blocking COVID Relief: They Want ‘No Help For American Families Before The Election’

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Senate Democrats on Thursday after they blocked COVID-19 relief funds, saying that their goal was to

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Fresh from settling a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-covington-catholic-student-nick-sandmann-gets-settlement-from-cnn-after-275-million-lawsuit">massive lawsuit against CNN</a> earlier this year, and another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/covington-catholic-hs-student-nick-sandmann-settles-250-million-lawsuit-with-the-washington-post">lawsuit against The Washington Post</a> this summer, Covington High School graduate Nick Sandmann has accepted a paid job with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) re-election campaign in Kentucky.
In a tweet late Thursday evening, Sandmann, who is now attending college, revealed he had accepted the position of grassroots director for the McConnell campaign, tweeting that he “finally got to add more to my bio than just my schools.”
Kevin Golden, the campaign manager for McConnell, confirmed the hire in a statement to local news station <a href="https://www.wymt.com/2020/08/28/nick-sandmann-joins-senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnells-campaign-team/">WYMT</a> on Friday morning, saying: “We’re excited to have Nicholas on Team Mitch. Along with our already strong team, his efforts to bring people together all across Kentucky will be critical to Senator McConnell’s victory this November.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2020/08/28/mitch-mcconnell-team-hired-nick-sandmann-covington-catholic-graduate-for-2020-reelection-campaign/5657533002/">reports</a> a spokesperson for the McConnell campaign confirmed that Sandmann&#8217;s position is paid. On Saturday afternoon, McConnell&#8217;s campaign account also tweeted photos of Sandmann knocking on doors on behalf of the Republican senator.
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Our Grassroots Director <a href="https://twitter.com/N1ckSandmann?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@N1ckSandmann</a> is out knocking doors today with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TeamMitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TeamMitch</a>! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KYSen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#KYSen</a> <a href="https://t.co/qua9m7RYrk">pic.twitter.com/qua9m7RYrk</a>
— Team Mitch (Text MITCH to 47360) (@Team_Mitch) <a href="https://twitter.com/Team_Mitch/status/1299762994419773440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
Roughly 18 months after being maligned by the media while just 16 years old, Sandmann appears to be moving slowly more into the public eye, this time on his own terms.
Earlier this week, Sandmann was featured at the Republican National Convention where he gave a speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial—the same place he was filmed in January of 2019 in a moment that changed the trajectory of his life.
“I found myself face-to-face with Nathan Phillips and other professional protesters looking to turn me into the latest poster child showing why Trump is bad,” Sandmann said at the RNC this week. “While the media portrayed me as the aggressor with a ‘relentless smirk’ on my face, in reality, the video confirms I was standing with my hands behind my back and an awkward smile on my face that hid two thoughts. One, don’t do anything that might further agitate the man banging a drum in my face, and two, trying to follow a family friend’s advice never to do anything to embarrass your family, your school, or your community.”
“Before I knew what was happening, it was over,” Sandmann continued, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “One of Mr. Phillips&#8217; fellow agitators yelled out ‘We got him!’, ‘It’s all right here on video’ and ‘We won, Grandpa.’ What I thought was a strange encounter quickly developed into a major news story complete with video footage.”
“My life changed forever in that one moment,” said Sandmann.
“The full war machine of the mainstream media revved up into attack mode. They did so without ever researching the full video of the incident; without ever investigating Mr. Philips’ motives, or without ever asking me for my side of the story. And do you know why? Because the truth wasn’t important. Advancing their anti-Christian, anti-Conservative, anti-Donald Trump narrative was all that mattered,” he said.
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Republicans Hold Virtual 2020 National Convention

Covington High School Graduate Nick Sandmann Hired By McConnell Campaign

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Fresh from settling a massive lawsuit against CNN earlier this year, and another lawsuit against The Washington Post this summer, Covington High School

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered a brief speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night where he outlined the importance of the upcoming elections.
“It’s an honor to come before you tonight from the Commonwealth of Kentucky,” McConnell began. “As the only leader in Washington, not from either New York or California, I consider it my responsibility to look out for middle America. This election is incredibly consequential for middle America.”
“President Trump knows he inherited the first generation of Americans who couldn’t promise their children a better life than their own,” McConnell continued. “He’s made it his mission, of this administration to change that. I know because I work beside him every day. Today’s Democrat party doesn’t want to improve life for middle America. They prefer that all of us flyover country, keep quiet, and let them decide how we should live our lives. They want to tell you when you can go to work, when your kid can go to school. They want to tax your job out of existence and then send you a government check for unemployment. They want to tell you what kind of car you can drive, what sources of information are credible, and even how many hamburgers you can eat.”
“They want to defund the police and take away your Second Amendment rights,” McConnell continued. “They want free healthcare for illegal immigrants yet they offer no protection at all for unborn Americans. They want to pack the Supreme Court with liberals intent on eroding our constitutional rights. And they want to codify all this by making the swamp itself, Washington DC, America’s 51st state. With two more liberal senators, we cannot undo the damage they’ve done. Now, you understand why Democrats spent an entire week telling us about who Joe Biden is, not what he intends to do. I’m immensely proud of the work the Republican Senate has done, we are the firewall against Nancy Pelosi’s agenda. Like President Trump, we won’t be bullied by a liberal media intent on destroying America’s institutions. We will stand our posts on behalf of the millions of Americans whose stories aren’t told in today’s newspapers, whose struggles are just as real.”
“We’ll continue to support American families as we defeat the Coronavirus and return our economy to the envy of the world,” he concluded. “The stakes have never been higher, which is why I’m asking you to support Republican Senate candidates across the country and reelect my friend, President Donald Trump.”
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell&#39;s full remarks at the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPconvention?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOPconvention</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RNC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RNC2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/h74hazBIaR">pic.twitter.com/h74hazBIaR</a>
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McConnell: Democrats ‘Want Free Health Care For Illegal Immigrants’ But ‘No Protection At All For Unborn Americans’

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered a brief speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night where he outlined the

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