Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) voiced his strong opposition to allowing Democrats to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the Judiciary Committee.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday voiced his strong opposition to allowing Democrats to temporarily replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee, stymieing a move sought by Democrats to strengthen the party’s hand in confirming judicial nominees during Feinstein’s extended absence.
“The supposed emergency is the Senate Democrats are unable to push through the small fraction of their nominees who are so extreme, so extreme and so unqualified, that they cannot win a single Republican vote in committee,” McConnell said.When Barack Obama was president and McConnell the Senate majority leader, McConnell blocked the nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016 to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, denying the nominee a hearing.
But replacing Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee would take 60 votes to approve given GOP objections. This means at least 10 Republicans would need to back the measure — a number that appeared out of reach even before McConnell delivered his first public remarks on the issue on Tuesday. That followed calls from some congressional Democrats for Feinstein, who has been absent from the chamber since February and has provided no return date, to resign from the Senate entirely.
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