The Senate neither held hearings nor took a vote on the Obama Supreme Court nominee, who was nominated nine months prior to the 2016 elections.
As Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky, moves to change the chamber’s rules to limit debate time and more easily advance President Donald Trump’s court nominees, Democrats and critics continue to blast the move as hypocritical.
The Senate neither held hearings nor took a vote on Garland, who was nominated by Obama nine months before the 2016 elections — more than the four months that Brett Kavanaugh had from the time he was nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump to the 2018 elections. "You can't brag about passing more judges than ever before and then say, 'the process is broken, we have to change the rules,'" Schumer said. "There is a word that begins with 'H' — that I won't say — ends in 'Y.'"
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