NRA Identified As One Of The Owners Of The US Senate

We’ll get to some of the nonsense about delaying tactics for the hearings and vote on the Supreme Court vacancy over the weekend…but Senator Mitch McConnell came too close to the truth this week when saying the NRA needed to weigh in on the candidate for the next justice

It turns out that the most important voice in the Supreme Court nomination battle is not the American people’s, as Senate Republicans have insisted from the moment Justice Antonin Scalia died last month. It is not even that of the senators. It’s the National Rifle Association’s.

That is what the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, said the other day when asked about the possibility of considering and confirming President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, after the November elections. “I can’t imagine that a Republican majority in the United States Senate would want to confirm, in a lame-duck session, a nominee opposed by the National Rifle Association,” he told “Fox News Sunday.”

In other words, forget the voters. Forget that Judge Garland has been supported and praised by top Republicans and Democrats for years. The N.R.A. doesn’t like him — for no fact-based reason — and that’s all that matters.

So there you have it…

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  1. Ed, thanks.

    People I trust say roll the dice on NOT confirming Judge Garland. The odds are better that either President Clinton or President Sanders with a Democratic Senate can confirm a much better choice.

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