Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Ladda (Tammy) Tammy DuckworthOvernight Defense: Trump orders troop drawdown in Afghanistan and Iraq | Key Republicans call Trump plan a 'mistake' Top Democrat calls Trump's Afghan drawdown 'the right policy decision' as others warn of 'mistake' Overnight Defense: Another Defense official resigns | Pentagon chief says military 'remains strong' despite purge | Top contender for Biden DOD secretary would be historic pick MORE (D-Ill.) used Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellDivided citizenry and government — a call to action for common ground Prioritizing COVID relief: How to break the stalemate Trump nominee's long road to Fed may be dead end MORE’s (R-Ky.) own words defending his decision to block the nomination of Merrick Garland
Merrick Brian GarlandMerrick Garland on list to be Biden's attorney general: report Defusing the judicial confirmation process Conservative justices help save ObamaCare — for now MORE to the Supreme Court to argue that Americans "should have a voice” in selecting the next justice.
Duckworth on Wednesday tweeted out a screenshot of McConnell’s 2016 tweet saying the “American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice” and captioned it with the same language, but replaced #Scalia with #Kennedy.
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. #Kennedy pic.twitter.com/TAgp0yzPeX
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) June 27, 2018
McConnell blocked the nomination of Garland, President Obama’s Supreme Court pick, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, claiming that the seat opened up too late in Obama’s term and that the next president should pick the justice.
The move set the stage for President Trump
Donald John TrumpTrump campaign files for new recount in Georgia GOP senator congratulates Biden, says Trump should accept results FDA grants emergency approval to coronavirus antibody treatment given to Trump MORE to nominate conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to the bench last year.
Gorsuch sided with conservative justices in handing down several major decisions this week, including to uphold Trump’s travel ban. McConnell celebrated that decision by sharing a photo of him and Gorsuch.
Kennedy announced Wednesday that he would retire from the Supreme Court.
Trump told reporters that he will pick a nominee to replace Kennedy from a previously released list of candidates, and McConnell said the Senate will vote to confirm Trump’s pick this fall.
