Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has called for swift confirmation of a successor to retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, sparking cries of hypocrisy from Democrats.

Liberals are demanding the Kentucky Republican apply the same standard to the first high court vacancy to occur under President Trump that he enforced in the last year of former President Barack Obama’s tenure. When Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, McConnell quickly declared that the Senate would not consider, let alone confirm, any Obama nominee — that the pick should belong to the next president.