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The Senate Majority Leader once warned about Trump's Muslim ban. Now he's gloating about it.
AARON RUPAR JUN 26, 2018, 11:15 AM
On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells (R-KY) official campaign Twitter account gloated over news that the U.S. Supreme Courts conservative majority upheld President Trumps Muslim ban in a 5-4 decision by posting a photo of McConnell shaking hands with Justice Neil Gorsuch.
McConnell, of course, did more than anybody else to make sure Gorsuch got on the court. Following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, McConnell refused to hold confirmation hearings for then-President Obamas choice to replace him, Merrick Garland.
McConnells tweet suggests that scoring a political win is more important to him than principle. In January 2017, he criticized President Trumps decision to implement an executive order banning people from a number of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
I think we need to be careful; we dont have religious tests in this country, McConnell said at the time.
https://thinkprogress.org/mitch-mcconnell-neil-gorsuch-travel-ban-trump-157a4bf4853f/
CrispyQ
(36,516 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)It was him and Eddie Munster Ryan that made this fuster-cluck possible!
CrispyQ
(36,516 posts)I'm not a violent person, but I'd like to punch the smugness off Ryan's face.
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Scum
duforsure
(11,885 posts)retake the Senate this Nov. , or we'll have two more years of damage he and trump will do to us, and more Supreme Court appointments they'll use to stack it with.