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call'em into session Mitch

2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016 [TO MERRICK GARLAND] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “I wouldn’t vote for me to fill this vacancy, and there’s nobody I like more than me, so it’s not personal.”

2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If a Democrat wins in November, and they pick somebody like Judge Garland, it would probably be a good pick, but historically we don’t fill the vacancies this close to an election.”

2016, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): "I will not consider any Supreme Court nominee until after the country has elected our next president in November and they have taken office in January 2017."

2016, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): "At this critical juncture in our nation's history, Texans and the American people deserve to have a say in the selection of the next lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb): "It is crucial for Nebraskans and all Americans to have a voice in the selection of the next person to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, and there is precedent to do so. Therefore, I believe this position should not be filled until the election of a new president."

2016, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL): "This critical decision should be made after the upcoming presidential election so that the American people have a voice."

2016, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss): "The American people should have the opportunity to make their voices heard before filling a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court."

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. John Thune (R-SD): "Since the next presidential election is already underway, the next president should make this lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD): "I believe that Justice Scalia’s replacement should be nominated by the next President of the United States.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “The people deserve to be heard, and they should be allowed to decide through their vote for the next president the type of person who should be on the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

2016, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "We will see what the people say this fall, and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination.”

2016, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “They are, of course, free to claim that the Constitution requires, today, the very hearings and floor votes that they denied to Republican nominees in the past. They may say those falsehoods as often as they wish, but they are still false.”

2016, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): "The Senate has chosen to exercise its power and let the next president fill this vacancy.”

2016, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY): "A president on his way out of the White House should not make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. The American people will soon decide our next president. That person should get to choose the next Supreme Court nominee. Give the people a voice, and let them chart the course for the court and the country."

2016, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS): "It is not in the Constitution that the Senate must vote."

2016, joint statement by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK): "A presidential election year is not the right time to start a nomination process for the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska): "The decision to withhold advancement of Mr. Garland’s nomination isn’t about the individual, it’s about the principle. Alaskans, like all Americans, are in the midst of an important national election. The next Supreme Court justice could fundamentally change the direction of the Court for years to come. Alaskans deserve to have a voice in that direction through their vote, and we will ensure that they have one.”

2016, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn): "With the U.S. Supreme Court’s balance at stake, and with a presidential election fewer than eight months away, it is wise to give the American people a more direct voice in the selection and confirmation of the next justice.”

2016, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT): "The American people have already begun voting on who the next president will be, and their voice should continue to be reflected in a process that will have lasting implications on our nation. The U.S. Senate should exercise its constitutional powers by not confirming a new Supreme Court justice until the American people elect a new president and have their voices heard."
 
No doubt hypocritical but that appears to be the best description of the swamp. Of course, when Mitch said that, it was a POTUS coming to the end of his 2nd term and change was guaranteed. One could argue that Trump should make a choice and allow the election to be a referendum on the direction of the court. Anyway, it is unfortunately politics and in DC it's politics that rules the day, not good governance.
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2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016 [TO MERRICK GARLAND] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “I wouldn’t vote for me to fill this vacancy, and there’s nobody I like more than me, so it’s not personal.”

2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If a Democrat wins in November, and they pick somebody like Judge Garland, it would probably be a good pick, but historically we don’t fill the vacancies this close to an election.”

2016, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): "I will not consider any Supreme Court nominee until after the country has elected our next president in November and they have taken office in January 2017."

2016, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): "At this critical juncture in our nation's history, Texans and the American people deserve to have a say in the selection of the next lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb): "It is crucial for Nebraskans and all Americans to have a voice in the selection of the next person to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, and there is precedent to do so. Therefore, I believe this position should not be filled until the election of a new president."

2016, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL): "This critical decision should be made after the upcoming presidential election so that the American people have a voice."

2016, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss): "The American people should have the opportunity to make their voices heard before filling a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court."

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. John Thune (R-SD): "Since the next presidential election is already underway, the next president should make this lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD): "I believe that Justice Scalia’s replacement should be nominated by the next President of the United States.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “The people deserve to be heard, and they should be allowed to decide through their vote for the next president the type of person who should be on the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

2016, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "We will see what the people say this fall, and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination.”

2016, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “They are, of course, free to claim that the Constitution requires, today, the very hearings and floor votes that they denied to Republican nominees in the past. They may say those falsehoods as often as they wish, but they are still false.”

2016, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): "The Senate has chosen to exercise its power and let the next president fill this vacancy.”

2016, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY): "A president on his way out of the White House should not make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. The American people will soon decide our next president. That person should get to choose the next Supreme Court nominee. Give the people a voice, and let them chart the course for the court and the country."

2016, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS): "It is not in the Constitution that the Senate must vote."

2016, joint statement by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK): "A presidential election year is not the right time to start a nomination process for the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska): "The decision to withhold advancement of Mr. Garland’s nomination isn’t about the individual, it’s about the principle. Alaskans, like all Americans, are in the midst of an important national election. The next Supreme Court justice could fundamentally change the direction of the Court for years to come. Alaskans deserve to have a voice in that direction through their vote, and we will ensure that they have one.”

2016, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn): "With the U.S. Supreme Court’s balance at stake, and with a presidential election fewer than eight months away, it is wise to give the American people a more direct voice in the selection and confirmation of the next justice.”

2016, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT): "The American people have already begun voting on who the next president will be, and their voice should continue to be reflected in a process that will have lasting implications on our nation. The U.S. Senate should exercise its constitutional powers by not confirming a new Supreme Court justice until the American people elect a new president and have their voices heard."
You forgot the part about 2 different Parties in charge of the process back then.
You also forgot that the VOTERS swept in a 100% PUB mandate in 2016, and even to this day the Voters have assigned the job of picking Supreme Court Justices exclusively to the Republicans.
PUBs control the Senate and the WH. That came from the voters. The voters are DEMANDING that the PUBs do their duty and seat this Justice immediately.
 
2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016 [TO MERRICK GARLAND] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “I wouldn’t vote for me to fill this vacancy, and there’s nobody I like more than me, so it’s not personal.”

2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If a Democrat wins in November, and they pick somebody like Judge Garland, it would probably be a good pick, but historically we don’t fill the vacancies this close to an election.”

2016, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): "I will not consider any Supreme Court nominee until after the country has elected our next president in November and they have taken office in January 2017."

2016, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): "At this critical juncture in our nation's history, Texans and the American people deserve to have a say in the selection of the next lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb): "It is crucial for Nebraskans and all Americans to have a voice in the selection of the next person to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, and there is precedent to do so. Therefore, I believe this position should not be filled until the election of a new president."

2016, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL): "This critical decision should be made after the upcoming presidential election so that the American people have a voice."

2016, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss): "The American people should have the opportunity to make their voices heard before filling a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court."

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. John Thune (R-SD): "Since the next presidential election is already underway, the next president should make this lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD): "I believe that Justice Scalia’s replacement should be nominated by the next President of the United States.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “The people deserve to be heard, and they should be allowed to decide through their vote for the next president the type of person who should be on the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

2016, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "We will see what the people say this fall, and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination.”

2016, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “They are, of course, free to claim that the Constitution requires, today, the very hearings and floor votes that they denied to Republican nominees in the past. They may say those falsehoods as often as they wish, but they are still false.”

2016, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): "The Senate has chosen to exercise its power and let the next president fill this vacancy.”

2016, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY): "A president on his way out of the White House should not make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. The American people will soon decide our next president. That person should get to choose the next Supreme Court nominee. Give the people a voice, and let them chart the course for the court and the country."

2016, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS): "It is not in the Constitution that the Senate must vote."

2016, joint statement by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK): "A presidential election year is not the right time to start a nomination process for the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska): "The decision to withhold advancement of Mr. Garland’s nomination isn’t about the individual, it’s about the principle. Alaskans, like all Americans, are in the midst of an important national election. The next Supreme Court justice could fundamentally change the direction of the Court for years to come. Alaskans deserve to have a voice in that direction through their vote, and we will ensure that they have one.”

2016, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn): "With the U.S. Supreme Court’s balance at stake, and with a presidential election fewer than eight months away, it is wise to give the American people a more direct voice in the selection and confirmation of the next justice.”

2016, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT): "The American people have already begun voting on who the next president will be, and their voice should continue to be reflected in a process that will have lasting implications on our nation. The U.S. Senate should exercise its constitutional powers by not confirming a new Supreme Court justice until the American people elect a new president and have their voices heard."


Lol, now do the 2016 statements by the Dems.
 
No doubt hypocritical but that appears to be the best description of the swamp. Of course, when Mitch said that, it was a POTUS coming to the end of his 2nd term and change was guaranteed. One could argue that Trump should make a choice and allow the election to be a referendum on the direction of the court. Anyway, it is unfortunately politics and in DC it's politics that rules the day, not good governance.
You can’t be a pol without being a hypocrite. I want Trump to win just so some of the creatures actually get put away. I’d love to see John Brennan go down.
 
This will be war, and the Senate will never be the same. Once the Dems get back the Senate, and it will happen at some point, they will go ballistic, and nothing will ever get done.

The days of Ronald Reagan working with Tip O'Neil to benefit the US public are officially over.

I just hope our republic can survive.

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The Dems made their Bed.....now they will have to Lie in it.....
 
"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."

-Mitch McConnell
Post the full quote.

To compare the two situations is absurd. Republicans controlled the Senate at that time and Obama nominated a moderate to see if they would pass. If Dems controlled the Senate they would have pushed through a radical constitution hating person without hesitation.

This time Republicans control both and Trump isn’t a lame duck.
 
"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president."

-Mitch McConnell

The people have spoken and elected their President. Trump needs to nominate A true conservative jurist ASAP.
 
2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016 [TO MERRICK GARLAND] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “I wouldn’t vote for me to fill this vacancy, and there’s nobody I like more than me, so it’s not personal.”

2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If a Democrat wins in November, and they pick somebody like Judge Garland, it would probably be a good pick, but historically we don’t fill the vacancies this close to an election.”

2016, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): "I will not consider any Supreme Court nominee until after the country has elected our next president in November and they have taken office in January 2017."

2016, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): "At this critical juncture in our nation's history, Texans and the American people deserve to have a say in the selection of the next lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb): "It is crucial for Nebraskans and all Americans to have a voice in the selection of the next person to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, and there is precedent to do so. Therefore, I believe this position should not be filled until the election of a new president."

2016, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL): "This critical decision should be made after the upcoming presidential election so that the American people have a voice."

2016, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss): "The American people should have the opportunity to make their voices heard before filling a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court."

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. John Thune (R-SD): "Since the next presidential election is already underway, the next president should make this lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD): "I believe that Justice Scalia’s replacement should be nominated by the next President of the United States.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “The people deserve to be heard, and they should be allowed to decide through their vote for the next president the type of person who should be on the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

2016, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "We will see what the people say this fall, and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination.”

2016, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “They are, of course, free to claim that the Constitution requires, today, the very hearings and floor votes that they denied to Republican nominees in the past. They may say those falsehoods as often as they wish, but they are still false.”

2016, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): "The Senate has chosen to exercise its power and let the next president fill this vacancy.”

2016, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY): "A president on his way out of the White House should not make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. The American people will soon decide our next president. That person should get to choose the next Supreme Court nominee. Give the people a voice, and let them chart the course for the court and the country."

2016, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS): "It is not in the Constitution that the Senate must vote."

2016, joint statement by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK): "A presidential election year is not the right time to start a nomination process for the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska): "The decision to withhold advancement of Mr. Garland’s nomination isn’t about the individual, it’s about the principle. Alaskans, like all Americans, are in the midst of an important national election. The next Supreme Court justice could fundamentally change the direction of the Court for years to come. Alaskans deserve to have a voice in that direction through their vote, and we will ensure that they have one.”

2016, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn): "With the U.S. Supreme Court’s balance at stake, and with a presidential election fewer than eight months away, it is wise to give the American people a more direct voice in the selection and confirmation of the next justice.”

2016, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT): "The American people have already begun voting on who the next president will be, and their voice should continue to be reflected in a process that will have lasting implications on our nation. The U.S. Senate should exercise its constitutional powers by not confirming a new Supreme Court justice until the American people elect a new president and have their voices heard."
And you can find Dems saying the exact opposite.

The situations are vastly different. No matter how much you don’t want that to be the case.

If Dems controlled the Senate in 2015 they would have put a radical on the court and they would do the same now if they had the chance.

This is simply another example of Dems wanting Republicans to act in a way they would never act in a million years. Hopefully the Republicanshave learned something, especially after the way Kavanaugh was treated. That was the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in politics and absolutely disgraceful.
 
McConnell is a swamp creature to the nth degree, that’s for sure.
I agree to the extent that he is a long serving politician and nobody should serve that long. We need term limits. But that has nothing to do with filling the vacancy. The swamp does not benefit from a Constitutionalist SCOTUS. The people do.
 
2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016 [TO MERRICK GARLAND] Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “I wouldn’t vote for me to fill this vacancy, and there’s nobody I like more than me, so it’s not personal.”

2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If a Democrat wins in November, and they pick somebody like Judge Garland, it would probably be a good pick, but historically we don’t fill the vacancies this close to an election.”

2016, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.): "I will not consider any Supreme Court nominee until after the country has elected our next president in November and they have taken office in January 2017."

2016, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX): "At this critical juncture in our nation's history, Texans and the American people deserve to have a say in the selection of the next lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb): "It is crucial for Nebraskans and all Americans to have a voice in the selection of the next person to serve a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, and there is precedent to do so. Therefore, I believe this position should not be filled until the election of a new president."

2016, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL): "This critical decision should be made after the upcoming presidential election so that the American people have a voice."

2016, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss): "The American people should have the opportunity to make their voices heard before filling a lifetime appointment to the nation's highest court."

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. John Thune (R-SD): "Since the next presidential election is already underway, the next president should make this lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD): "I believe that Justice Scalia’s replacement should be nominated by the next President of the United States.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “The people deserve to be heard, and they should be allowed to decide through their vote for the next president the type of person who should be on the Supreme Court.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

2016, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa): "We will see what the people say this fall, and our next president, regardless of party, will be making that nomination.”

2016, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah): “They are, of course, free to claim that the Constitution requires, today, the very hearings and floor votes that they denied to Republican nominees in the past. They may say those falsehoods as often as they wish, but they are still false.”

2016, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah): "The Senate has chosen to exercise its power and let the next president fill this vacancy.”

2016, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY): "A president on his way out of the White House should not make a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. The American people will soon decide our next president. That person should get to choose the next Supreme Court nominee. Give the people a voice, and let them chart the course for the court and the country."

2016, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS): "It is not in the Constitution that the Senate must vote."

2016, joint statement by Sen. Jim Inhofe and Sen. James Lankford (R-OK): "A presidential election year is not the right time to start a nomination process for the Supreme Court."

2016, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska): "The decision to withhold advancement of Mr. Garland’s nomination isn’t about the individual, it’s about the principle. Alaskans, like all Americans, are in the midst of an important national election. The next Supreme Court justice could fundamentally change the direction of the Court for years to come. Alaskans deserve to have a voice in that direction through their vote, and we will ensure that they have one.”

2016, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Penn): "With the U.S. Supreme Court’s balance at stake, and with a presidential election fewer than eight months away, it is wise to give the American people a more direct voice in the selection and confirmation of the next justice.”

2016, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT): "The American people have already begun voting on who the next president will be, and their voice should continue to be reflected in a process that will have lasting implications on our nation. The U.S. Senate should exercise its constitutional powers by not confirming a new Supreme Court justice until the American people elect a new president and have their voices heard."
You like quotes? I got quotes.

Notice all of yours are Pubs from 2016, when the Senate and President were not aligned. This makes a difference, albeit debatable. Here's some from the Dems:

“The president has the constitutional DUTY to nominate; the Senate has the constitutional OBLIGATION to provide advice and consent. It is written plainly in the Constitution that both presidents and senators swear an oath to uphold and defend.” - Joe Biden

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And Mitch McConnell advised this guy against this move, which took away the minority party's means of blocking a party line senate approval.

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