Original article from: CNN
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vowed on Friday that whomever President Donald Trump nominates to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get a vote on the Senate floor, signaling a historic fight in Congress over one of the most polarizing issues in American politics.”President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate,” McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said in a statement Friday evening that sets GOP lawmakers on a collision path with Democrats, though the exact timing of such a fight was not immediately clear.
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Hypocrisy. But we all knew that.
February 13, 2016, following the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, McConnell said, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” McConnell said in a statement released after Scalia’s death. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
September 18, 2020, following the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, McConnell said, “Americans reelected our majority in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 because we pledged to work with President Trump and support his agenda, particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise,” McConnell said. “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”
The Senate rarely represents the will of the people. Every state gets two Senators. Kansas has the same amount of power as California, despite California having thirteen times as many people.
When our founding fathers built this nation, they did it based on the issue of slavery. They had to balance power between slave states and non-slave states delicately. This is why they framed the electoral college and the Senate into our Constitution to compromise with southern slave states. Not only did that compromise lead to the Civil War, but it led to a country where a minority of the population has a more prominent voice than the majority, leading to slow progress on changes we must adapt to.
It’s time to rethink our country.