Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that his decision to block former President Obama's Supreme Court pick to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016 led to the Roe v. Wade getting overturned.
What he's saying: "It’s the single-most consequential decision I’ve made in my public career," McConnell said in Kentucky on Wednesday, per Bloomberg. The senator also called the Supreme Court's opinion "a huge step in the right direction."
McConnell said that refusing to consider Merrick Garland's nomination led to President Trump putting Justice Neil Gorsuch on the bench, the first of the three Trump appointees that gave the Supreme Court a 6-3 conservative majority.
All of the justices appointed by Trump — Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — joined the court's opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, in overturning Roe.
Catch up fast: McConnell, when Garland was nominated, directed Senate Republicans to not consider Obama's pick. He then expanded the so-called "nuclear option" to get rid of the filibuster to confirm Supreme Court nominees in 2018.
Earth_Friendly-5892 on June 29th, 2022 at 20:50 UTC »
In other words, the Republicans stole a Supreme Court Justice seat and put an extreme partisan judge on it who would rule against the will of the majority of Americans while ignoring basic rights and viewing each case as doing the will of the Republican Party.
Jasminewindsong2 on June 29th, 2022 at 20:25 UTC »
It’s on my bucket list to spit on this man’s grave one day.
goatismycopilot on June 29th, 2022 at 20:22 UTC »
Yes. We know