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On the recordMarch 30, 2022
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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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri
Source
msnbc.com

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McCaskill discusses the political nature of Supreme Court nominations and references Mitch McConnell's role.

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