If you’ve been following the media coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, then you’ve heard a million times what Republicans like Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said in 2016.
After the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, both the Senate majority leader from Kentucky and the South Carolina senator said a replacement should not be seated until after the presidential election.
But then-Vice President Joe Biden said otherwise at the time, declaring that the president had a “constitutional duty” to seat a justice on the high court when a vacancy arises.
“The president has the constitutional duty to nominate; the Senate has the constitutional obligation to provide advice and consent,” Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 2016. – READ MORE
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