Mitch McConnell: Democrats Would Have Blocked A GOP Supreme Court Nominee Too

WASHINGTON ― Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday defended his decision not to consider the nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing that Democrats would have done the same thing if they’d controlled the Senate and a vacancy on the court had opened up during an election year. “If the shoe had been on the other foot, they wouldn’t have filled a Republican president’s vacancy,” McConnell said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press...