Mitch McConnell: Democrats Rehashing ’40-Year-Old Scare Tactics’ on SCOTUS Nominee

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said Monday Republicans will not succumb to “40-year-old scare tactics” to abandon President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: “Whenever a Republican president nominates anyone — anyone — to the Supreme Court, we’ve seen the same movie, time after time, after time. Less than three years after Justice Kennedy’s confirmation, President Bush nominated David Souter to the Supreme Court. Guess what left-wing pressure groups said about David Souter right after President Bush selected him? That’s right — the very same things you’re hearing today. The same things you’ve heard, from these same corners about every Supreme Court nominee named by a Republican president.

One organization proclaimed that Justice Souter might “undo the advances of made by women, minorities, dissenters, and others disadvantaged groups.” That was about Justice Souter. Back in 1975, they assailed the nomination of John Paul Stevens. They said he lacked impartiality. So these far-left groups have been at these same scare tactics — Mr. president — for over — 40 years. The consistency is really quite amazing. Decade after decade after decade — nominee after nominee — the far-left script hardly changes at all. Anyone and everyone a Republican president nominates to the Supreme Court is some kind of threat to the Republic, according to the hysterical press releases that inevitably follow.

No matter their qualifications, no matter their record, no matter their reputation — it’s the same hyperbole, it’s the same accusations, the same old story. Tonight, President Trump will announce his nominee to fill the current Supreme Court vacancy. Who don’t know who he will name, but we already know exactly what unfair tactics the nominee will face. They won’t be new and they won’t be warranted. We can expect to hear how they will destroy equal rights or demolish American health care or ruin our country in some other fictional way. Justice Kennedy’s resignation letter had barely arrived in the president’s hands before several of our Democratic colleagues began declaring their blanket opposition to anyone at all.

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Please, give the American people some credit. This far-left rhetoric comes out every single time, but the apocalypse never comes. American see beyond this far-left mongering This kind of fear pondering they’ve tried over and over again for 40 years.

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One more round of 40-year-old scare tactics will not stop us from doing the right thing.”