Merrick Garland is all we have to talk about. If you want to talk about the road to making Supreme Court nominees 100 percent political, that was Mitch McConnell, with the assistance of the Republican Caucus, that did that.
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McCaskill discusses the political nature of Supreme Court nominations and references Mitch McConnell's role.
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I think they`re going to try to stall. I mean, I think that`s why they asked the special master in the first place.
First, people were put on the court with a political two by four wielded by Mitch McConnell. First by denying a sitting president an opportunity to name a Supreme Court justice, first time in history.
I think even though abortion wasn`t at the top of the list when you ask people in that poll what issues they cared about, when governments across the country are threatening to forced incest victims to give birth, that makes people angry…
This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.





