(Washington, DC) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is breaking with his party’s Majority Leader on the possibility of filling another Supreme Court seat during a presidential election year. The Iowa Republican Senator said on Fox News tonight that he would not allow a Supreme Court vacancy to be filled in 2020 if one were to open up if he is still the committee’s chairman then. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated this week he would, despite saying the opposite when it was a Democratic president making the appointments. Grassley said he made the pledge in 2016 when he helped McConnell block President Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland and he’s not going to change it just because it’s a Republican president making the picks. The Senate never considered Garland’s appointment and the seat of Antonin Scalia was vacant for nearly a year. McConnell said on Monday that opposition parties do not fill vacancies in election years, suggesting the same party as the president would.
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Ken Sain/am IA) KY)
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