It's Friday, April 22 and Day 69 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell laid down his Supreme Court blockade: no meetings, no hearings, no votes on his replacement. It's also Day 37 since President Obama named Merrick Garland to be Scalia's replacement. What's the Senate doing today instead of considering the Supreme Court nominee?
Nada. They had a week in which something actually happened, they passed an energy reform bill that does not do anything to help the people of Flint, Michigan have clean tap water and that will likely be largely torpedoed by the House when it gets to conference. That's because Heritage Action hates it. Meanwhile, here's the last official thing from yesterday:
Meanwhile, more Republicans are meeting with Garland apparently just so they can run to reporters right after and say how much they don't think the Senate should do it's job until next year. And, in this case of Sen. John Hoeven from North Dakota, guns. Even though that's pretty much bullshit because Garland has really only had one major gun ruling in Heller, one in which he was requesting to review a ruling in the interest of respecting precedent.
But, hey, they've got to come up with something to oppose him on, other than the flimsy "let the people decide" excuse.
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