McConnell’s hypocrisy

McConnell is now subtly making the case that the standard is that a president won’t get a SCOTUS nominee confirmed in a presidential election year if the Senate is controlled by the opposite party. When he blocked Garland, the GOP argued it was just about proximity to election https://t.co/eZlkrqCIOs

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 7, 2018

Well said. https://t.co/YLmIAMbvFi

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 7, 2018

It’s not like the history of this matters at all — McConnell is always gonna do what he wants — but for him to base his case on blocking Merrick Garland on history, and then get the history wrong, just shows you it’s not about history. https://t.co/bNRSzR6b4G

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) October 7, 2018

The default position for many neutral reporters is that McConnell's hardball was retributive, and thus justified, while Reid's occurred in a vacuum in which no prior GOP excesses/obstruction need be acknowledged or discussed. #RiggedGame https://t.co/s3iNL33PGD

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 7, 2018

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell leaves open the possibility of confirming a Supreme Court nominee in 2020 if Republicans still control the chamber and there's a vacancy on the court https://t.co/weAKxAiy0V pic.twitter.com/x4pufpSpo7

— CNN (@CNN) October 7, 2018

Respectful. Tough. Factual. CBS's @johndickerson strips veneer of historical precedent from Senate Majority Leader McConnell's rationale on Merrick Garland in @FaceTheNation interview. https://t.co/Siudk6DYn2

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) October 7, 2018

In 2016, McConnell refused to even consider Merrick Garland, because it was the final year of a president’s term.

In 2018, McConnell would not commit to blocking a nominee if a vacancy on the high court arose during Trump’s second final term.https://t.co/FD21ZCb9QH

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 7, 2018

Thank you @johndickerson for knowing the facts & refusing to back down from McConnell’s attempt to reconstruct history to justify his conduct. https://t.co/ODLEBgOf4M

— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) October 7, 2018

Props to @JDickerson for (a) knowing the history, and (b) coming back to it, politely but firmly.

McConnell is just making this up. https://t.co/KI2JAdd83u

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) October 7, 2018

Scarborough scorches “used-car salesman” Mitch McConnell: “He’s changing history, adjusting facts” https://t.co/CUsV0rkH0k

— Salon (@Salon) October 8, 2018

Mitch McConnell got called out for his Supreme Court hypocrisy on two different Sunday shows https://t.co/P3ZrBOsYiX

— Salon (@Salon) October 8, 2018

In Kentucky, McConnell again signals that GOP could try to confirm any Trump nominee in a presidential election year, breaking from the standard he set with Merrick Garland. The comments raise stakes for the midterms since a Dem Senate almost certainly won’t move a Trump nominee https://t.co/Gpv24KSohZ

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) October 8, 2018

Mitch McConnell misleadingly suggested that his rationale in 2016 for refusing to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year was related to a divided government https://t.co/WYSmHKxk9Z pic.twitter.com/a9oIgagGTj

— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) October 9, 2018