Senate's top Republican says the Supreme Court's role is to protect basic rights, even when majorities are in favor of something else. 'That happens all the time.'
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to members of the press after a weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on May 10, 2022, in Washington, D.C.to issue rulings that are in conflict with a majority of Americans' views on abortion rights, telling NPR that is a feature of the system.
But McConnell insisted that his focus on installing conservative judges on the federal bench was not about any one issue, telling NPR,"My interest in this was unrelated to any particular issue. "I think it will be certainly heavily debated in state legislative and governor's races because the court will have, in effect, returned this issue to the political process. My guess is in terms of the impact on federal races, I think it's probably going to be a wash," McConnell said.
He said he's"hopeful and optimistic" the primary will"produce fully electable people because we had a bad experience with that in 2010 and 2012," referring to four right wing candidates in those cycles who lost in years that were otherwise good for boosting the party's numbers in Congress. "I think the administration was a little tentative in the beginning, probably suspecting the Ukrainians couldn't pull this off," he said"So we're all on the same team on this. The Russians need to lose. The Ukrainians need to win."
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