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He took aim at what he called \"reckless\" Democratic efforts to stop a vote.
\"Now, already, some of the same individuals who tried every conceivable dirty trick to obstruct Justice (Neil) Gorsuch and Justice (Brett) Kavanaugh are lining up, lining up to declare the third time will be the charm.\"
Without committing to a vote before the election, McConnell made clear he thinks there's plenty of time to confirm a Trump nominee before year's end.
\"We're already hearing incorrect claims that there is not sufficient time to examine and confirm a nominee,\" he said. \"We can debunk this myth in about 30 seconds.\"
McConnell warned of the coming attacks by Democrats and their allies, saying, \"Two years ago, a radical movement tried to use unproven accusations to ruin a man's life, because they could not win a vote fair and square. Now they appear to be readying an even more appalling sequel. This time, the target will not just be the innocence for one American, but our very governing institutions themselves.\"
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Speaking after McConnell, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said much \"hangs in the balance,\" ticking off a wide-ranging list of consequences for everything from health care to climate change.
\"The right to join a union, marry who you love, freely exercise your right to vote, the right of a parent with a child who has cancer not to watch helpless as their son or daughter suffers without proper health care -- if you care about these things and the kind of country we live in -- this election and this vacancy mean everything and by all rights -- by every modicum of decency and honor -- Leader McConnell and the Republican senate majority have no right -- no right to fill it.\"
He laid into McConnell, Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham and other Republicans for reversing position on filling a court seat in an election year after not allowing a vote on President Barack Obama's nominee Merrick Garland in 2016.
\"Why even bother constructing a pretense for your position? Why say it's this rule or that rule and then do the exact opposite when it suits your interests. Why not just come to the floor and say -- I'm going to do whatever's best for my political party -- consistency be damned, reason be damned, democracy be damned. Just admit it.\"
He warned that a handful of Republicans have it in their power to save the Senate, saying, \"Tell me how -- tell me how this would not spell the end of this supposedly great body?\"
\"I don't see how. There's only one way -- one way for us to have some hope of coming together again, trusting each other again lowering the temperature – moving forward -- and that is for four brave Senate Republicans to commit to rejecting any nominee until the next president is installed. That was Justice Ginsburg's dying wish and it may be the Senate's only last hope,\" Schumer said.
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