As the Gorsuch nomination proceeds, this man is taking credit: Mitch McConnell
By Paul Kane February 18 at 11:04 AM
As Judge Neil Gorsuch has made his way this month through the gauntlet required of a Supreme Court nominee, touring Capitol Hill and meeting with the lawmakers who will decide his fate, President Trump has boasted flamboyantly about his choice.
But on that late-January evening when Trump introduced Gorsuch to an approving audience at the White House, someone else in the elegant East Room was also beaming with pride: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Technically this was Trump’s selection, but for many critics and fans, the vacancy will be remembered as the McConnell seat.
Almost exactly one year ago, Justice Antonin Scalia died on a hunting trip in a remote corner of Texas. Without consulting his colleagues, McConnell declared that no Supreme Court nominee from then-President Obama would ever be considered. He stuck to his word: By the fall, Senate Republicans who had joined McConnell in stonewalling Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, were begging voters to side with them to provide a check against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s choice for the Scalia vacancy — and to consider voting for Trump, who most of them thought was headed to defeat.
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