Someone might get so pissed they would 2nd Amendment him..

Jeffries calls McConnell 'shameless' for saying he'd confirm a justice in 2020

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries ripped into Mitch McConnell after the Senate majority leader said he would fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court if a seat were to open up during next year’s presidential election.

Democrats have expressed outrage at McConnell’s statement, given that he blocked then-President Barack Obama’s pick for the high court from even receiving a confirmation hearing in 2016. Though McConnell has said in the past that his obstruction stemmed in part from the fact that the White House and Senate were controlled by opposite political parties — a fact that would not be the case if there were an open seat next year — his revelation has opened old wounds for Democrats.

In an interview on CNN’s “New Day” Wednesday, Jeffries was asked whether the Supreme Court would be a strong enough motivator for the Democratic electorate next year, where the party faces an uphill climb to win back control of the Senate, and the Brooklyn Democrat laid into McConnell.

“I think Mitch McConnell is exhibit A as to why what happens in November of 2020 with respect to the Senate matters,” he said. “He’s a shameless individual — and this does not just simply apply to his behavior as it relates to stealing a Supreme Court seat that Barack Obama had the right to present to the American people.”

The ideological makeup of the Supreme Court — which currently skews slightly to the right — has taken an outsize role in the Democratic presidential primary, with some hopefuls so incensed by McConnell’s 2016 “stealing” of a seat that some have backed expanding the court altogether. But the issue has really come to the forefront in recent weeks after a handful of states passed a flurry of laws placing restrictions on abortion, leading to open concerns about whether the current court would uphold abortion rights enshrined by Roe v. Wade.

There have also long been rumors that conservative Justice Clarence Thomas could retire while a Republican remains in the White House. Meanwhile, liberals have expressed fears about the health of 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Jeffries also accused McConnell, who has rejected almost every major piece of legislation sent over by the Democratic House, of overseeing a “legislative graveyard,” asserting that the majority leader “is negligent in doing the business of the American people.”

Given those factors, Jeffries concluded, he suggested Democrats liked their chances. “We think that the Supreme Court issue should be a voting issue in November of 2020 and his failure to act on the priorities of the American people that we have been working on as House Democrats should be a voting issue in 2020.”