Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today sent a letter to committee DEMOCRATS regarding the recent Supreme Court vacancy.

Graham wrote, “When the American people elected a Republican Senate majority in 2014, Americans did so because we committed to checking and balancing the end of President Obama’s lame duck presidency. We did so. We followed the precedent that the Senate has followed for 140 years: since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee during an election year.”

He continued, “Lastly, after the treatment of Justice Kavanaugh I now have a different view of the judicial-confirmation process. Compare the treatment of Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh to that of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, and it’s clear that there already is one set of rules for a Republican president and one set of rules for a Democrat president.

“I therefore think it is important that we proceed expeditiously to process any nomination made by President Trump to fill this vacancy. I am certain if the shoe were on the other foot, you would do the same.”


https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/chairman-graham-to-committee-democrats-after-the-treatment-of-justice-kavanaugh-i-now-have-a-different-view-of-the-judicial-confirmation-process