Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor on Monday to explain why he’ll hold a vote on Donald Trump’s pending nomination to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, even though he opposed voting on Barack Obama’s nomination to the court in similar circumstances in 2016. Mr McConnell differentiated Mr Obama’s 2016 selection of DC Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland to replace Justice Antonin Scalia from Mr Trump’s 2020 pick by saying there was “divided government” in 2016, whereas Republicans control both the Senate and the White House now.
