Daily Kos: Of course chief vulture McConnell would jam a Trump Supreme Court nominee through, Republicans say
By JOAN McCARTER
The Grim Reaper of everything good in Congress, Mitch McConnell, has donned his cloak and picked up his scythe, slathering over the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized this week with gallbladder problems. Is there any question that the McConnell Rule established in 2016—no Supreme Court appointments for a president in an election year—would hold true for Donald Trump? Yeah. Right.
"We're going to fill" a vacancy, if there is one, said Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso, the No. 3 Republican leader. "With Justice Scalia […] people might not have thought he was the one, because he wasn't the oldest at the time. You just never know." Texas Sen. John Cornyn at least acknowledged that it would be a phenomenally hypocritical thing to do, but that wouldn't stop him. "If you thought the Kavanaugh hearing was contentious this would probably be that on steroids," he told reporters. "Nevertheless, if the president makes a nomination then it's our responsibility to take it up." Only when it's a Republican president, he did not add.