McConnell Suggests He’d Block a 2024 Biden Supreme Court Pick
- ‘Highly unlikely’ GOP Senate would confirm election year pick
- Progressive groups pressuring Breyer to retire this year
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Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell said it’s “highly unlikely” he’d let President Joe Biden fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2024 if Republicans retake control of the chamber next year.
McConnell indicated he’d apply the same rationale as he did when Republicans blocked President Barack Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland in 2016 -- that a court vacancy shouldn’t be filled in an election year when control of the Senate and the White House is split between the two parties.