Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Said Wednesday that his decision to block former President Obama’s Supreme Court election to succeed the late Judge Antonin Scalia in 2016 led to Roe’s reversal against Wade.
What he’s saying is, “This is the most important decision I’ve made in my public career,” McConnell said in Kentucky on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg. The senator also called the Supreme Court’s opinion “a huge step in the right direction.”
- McConnell said the refusal to consider Merrick Garland’s nomination led President Trump to put Judge Neil Gorsuch on the bench, the first of three Trump appointees to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority of 6-3.
- All the judges appointed by Trump – Gorsuch, Brett Cavanaugh and Amy Connie Barrett – joined the court’s opinion, written by Judge Samuel Alito, to overturn Rowe.
Catch up fast: McConnell, when Garland was nominated, ordered Republicans in the Senate not to consider Obama’s choice. He then expanded the so-called “nuclear option” to get rid of the filibuster to confirm the Supreme Court’s nominations in 2018.
- Gorsuch, Cavanaugh and Barrett were confirmed by a simple majority.
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