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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
Y’all remember when Justice Scalia died in February of 2016 and the Republicans blocked our — the president’s nomination, President Obama’s nomination to fill that vacancy for nearly a year by making up an entirely new standard that there be no confirmations of the court during an election year.
But then, when Justice Ginsburg died in 2020, Republicans rushed through President Trump’s nominee at the very same time votes are being cast in an election that Trump would lose. It’s outrageous!
— President Joe Biden, in comments given during a speech made at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, in support of his court reform proposals that would establish 18-year term limits and an enforceable ethics code for Supreme Court justices. Biden referred to Senate Republicans’ completely opposite election-year actions concerning Merrick Garland and Amy Coney Barrett a “blatant attack on nominating and confirming justices to the court itself.”
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