Democratic Senator vows to expand the Supreme Court if Mitch McConnell fills Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is already publicly vowing to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat before the election – a reminder of just how soulless and corrupt he truly is. Senate Democrats have a number of ways of stalling and slowing such a nomination, and they’ll use everything they have, but as the minority party their available toolset is somewhat limited.
As it turns out, the strongest leverage Senate Democrats have going for them is the fact that they could very well be in the majority just a few months from now, thus giving them all kinds of power to undo anything that Mitch McConnell might do in these final weeks. Democratic Senator Ed Markey just tweeted this:
“Mitch McConnell set the precedent. No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If he violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court.”
So there you have it. Here’s a Senate Democrat openly vowing to pack the Supreme Court if McConnell goes through with his dire plan to fill RBG’s seat. This is a big deal. Ed Markey is influential. We doubt he’d be tweeting something like this unless Chuck Schumer is at least tacitly on board with it. McConnell could face a tough decision about whether filling that seat now is worth the ugly consequences for him and his party in the new year.
