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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Alex Woodward

Mitch McConnell tells Biden not to ‘outsource’ Supreme Court pick to ‘radical left’

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who waged a Republican blockade of the last US Supreme Court nominee under a Democratic president, issued a warning to Joe Biden as he prepares to nominate a replacement for retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.

The Republican senator from Kentucky, who worked closely with former president Donald Trump’s administration to radically reshape the federal judiciary, said President Biden “must not outsource this important decision to the radical left”.

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