The Republican Majority leader seems to want to take no chances with the November midterm elections i9n packing the court to be friendly to conservatives….
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Friday that he expects the Senate to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination before the Court starts its next term.
“The timetable typically for recent Supreme Court justices, if we stuck to that timetable and I intend to, would give us an opportunity to get this new justice on the court by the first of October,” McConnell told reporters in Kentucky on Friday.
The timeline lines up with a similar estimate the GOP leader made late last month before President Trump named Kavanaugh as his pick.
Kavanaugh is making his rounds on Capitol Hill as he works to lock down the simple majority support he’ll need to be confirmed as Justice Anthony Kennedy’s successor on the high court.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) hasn’t said when the Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination.
But McConnell predicted on Friday that it will likely take place in late August or early September. The Senate is expected to be in Washington for most of August after McConnell canceled three weeks of the summer recess…..
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