Senate Minority Leader McConnell says it's 'highly unlikely' he'd let President Biden fill a Supreme Court vacancy during the 2024 election cycle if Senate Republicans win back the majority.
Erin Scott / ReutersWASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., signaled Monday that if Republicans were to win back the majority next year, he wouldn’t allow President Joe Biden to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during the 2024 election cycle — and he may not even allow a hearing in 2023 if a seat needed to be filled then.
Asked if he would fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 with a Biden nominee, McConnell suggested he would follow the rule he used in 2016, Merrick Garland, after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death because it was an election year. McConnell added that Democrats would employ the same rule if they held the Senate majority and a Republican president nominated a prospective justice in an election year.Republicans' decision to confirm Justice Amy Coney Barrett last year
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