WASHINGTON — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell warned President Biden on Thursday against selecting a new Supreme Court justice nominee based on the demands of the progressive left.
“To the degree that President Biden received a mandate, it was to govern from the middle, steward our institutions, and unite America,” McConnell said in his first statement on the planned retirement of Justice Stephen Breyer. “The president must not outsource this important decision to the radical left.”
The 83-year-old Breyer’s decision to vacate the nation’s highest court this year will open a fresh new ideological fight in the 50-50 U.S. Senate, in which McConnell will again attempt to maintain GOP loyalty.
