GOP Rejects Allegations of Hypocrisy in Supreme Court Fight

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) speaking with attendees at the 2015 Iowa Growth & Opportunity Party at the Varied Industries Building at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 31, 2015. (Gage Skidmore/[CC BY-SA-2.0 (ept.ms/2utDIe9)])

Several top Republicans in the Senate dismissed Democratic criticism of hypocrisy as they attempt to vote on nominating a new Supreme Court justice in the wake of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last week.

Democrats over the weekend frequently asserted that the GOP would be hypocritical for confirming a nominee from President Donald Trump after the Republican-led Senate refused to hold a hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, former President Barack Obama’s nominee, after Justice Antonin Scalia died in 2016.