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McConnell Says Blocking Obama Supreme Court Pick Led to Overturning Roe

  • Senate GOP leader calls it his ‘most consequential decision’
  • Maneuver led to Trump getting to put three justices on court
Mitch McConnell

Mitch McConnell

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said his decision to block former President Barack Obama from filling a Supreme Court vacancy after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016 led directly to the reversal of the Roe v Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.

“It’s the single-most consequential decision I’ve made in my public career,” McConnell said Wednesday in remarks at a local Chamber of Commerce luncheon in his home state of Kentucky.