But Mitch! It's a Presidential election year!

 

Two quickies based on Daily Mail articles.

If you'll remember (and many of us certainly do), when Justice Antonin Scalia passed away, in February of 2016, detestable Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on the same day that the Senate would not consider a nomination by President Barack Obama during an election year.

When asked what he and the Senate would do if there was a Supreme Court seat open in 2020, McConnell clearly smirked and said "We'd fill it".

And now this:

I'd nominate a Supreme Court justice if there's a vacancy before the election says Donald Trump as he claims that a Joe Biden victory will mean 'you'll have to learn Chinese'

"You mean if something happened like now?' Trump asked when radio host Hugh Hewitt asked him if he would nominate a justice, an issue Trump is already seeking to elevate in the 2020 campaign. 

'Absolutely, I’d do it. Sure,' Trump says.

They are SO scummy, which is very mild for what they really are.  And McConnell is also a hypocritical bloviating ass.