Hypocrite Mitch McConnell Complains That Democrats Are Too Partisan

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McConnell, who has done more to undermine the integrity of the legislative branch than anyone in the last half-century, thinks judges who are unretiring after Trump’s win lack integrity. Good grief!

December 3, 2024

Senator Mitch McConnell is upset that two Democratic judges are reversing their decisions to retire, complaining Monday that “this sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary.”

After Donald Trump was elected to his second term as president last month, two judges appointed by Democratic presidents changed their minds about retiring. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, appointed by President Obama, announced that he would remain active on the court for the Western District of North Carolina after previously saying he would move to part-time status in 2022.

Before Cogburn, U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley, a Clinton appointee, changed his mind about moving to senior status on the court for the Southern District of Ohio. To McConnell, this “exposes bold Democratic blue where there should only be black robes.

“It’s hard to conclude this is anything other than open partisanship,” the former Senate majority leader added, before offering a warning to Democrats: “It would be especially alarming if either of the two circuit judges whose announced retirements created the vacancies currently pending before the Senate—in Tennessee and North Carolina—were to follow suit.”
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[Freddie]

1. Repugs have no concept of hypocrisy

It’s like breathing for them

[Omnipresent]

2. From what i learned from maga's, is that...

Mitch brings Democrats and Republicans together, in a bipartisan way. We all hate Mitch!

[NotHardly]

3. Amazing this duplicitous shite is still alive & talking like he matters.

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4. A shame he's not intelligent enough to be ironic.

[The Roux Comes First]

5. The Walking and Mumbling Exemplar of Total Absence of Integrity

You will be remembered by history, little turtle!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Maddow Blog- McConnell is the wrong guy to whine about 'political games,' judicial nominations

As Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell complains about people playing “political games” with judicial nominations, irony weeps in the corner.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mcconnell-wrong-guy-whine-political-games-judicial-nominations-rcna182685

The ad came to mind watching the latest developments on Capitol Hill. Newsweek reported:

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was called out by his Democratic colleague after the Kentucky senator complained about playing ‘political games’ with judicial nominations. McConnell made the remark during a Senate floor session on Monday and said he was concerned that two U.S. circuit court judges who had plans to retire may not follow through with them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 U.S. election.

“This sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary,” McConnell said. “Never, never before has a circuit judge un-retired after a presidential election. It’s literally unprecedented.”

Of course, those interested in playing “political games” with judicial nominations could very easily turn to the Kentucky Republican by saying, “From you, all right? We learned it by watching you!”

If, for example, McConnell seriously wants to have a conversation about what’s “literally unprecedented” when it comes to the politicization of the federal judiciary, the Senate GOP leader should be interested in his own record.

It was in February 2016, for example, when then-Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly. Then-President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a center-left, compromise jurist — who’d received praise from Senate Republicans — to fill the vacancy, which in turn opened the door to a historic opportunity to stop the high court’s drift to the right......

Nearly four years later, as Election Day 2020 approached, McConnell and his GOP brethren scrambled to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court — abandoning the principles Republicans pretended to care about four years earlier — even as millions of Americans were taking advantage of early voting.

Not to put too fine a point on this, but McConnell has done more than anyone alive to politicize the judiciary. To the extent that anyone is playing “political games” with judicial nominations, they are merely following the playbook the Kentucky Republican authored years ago.

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7. Exactly. He has always been a ruthless opportunist.

[Skittles]

8. says the guy who denied us a SUPREME COURT PICK

FUCK YOU MCCONNELL YOU FUCKING REPUKE HACK