Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote Friday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is now the last man standing between President Obama’s goal of appointing a liberal Supreme Court justice.
“Does anyone doubt that Democrats would be saying exactly that if the circumstances were reversed?” he wrote. “Which makes this Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (Ky.) moment … There is no reason McConnell cannot hold the line. And he must. The stakes here — a radical generation-long reversal of direction of the Supreme Court — are the highest this Senate will ever face.”
Scalia unexpectedly died last week from natural causes, according to news reports. His passing created the potential for Obama, a Democrat, to nominate a replacement that could potentially swing the balance of the conservative-leaning court in a direction more favorable to liberals.
McConnell, along with other Republicans in Congress and every GOP presidential candidate, has said any nominee proposed by Obama, who is in the last year of his final term, should not be confirmed.
