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Manchin clarifies: He’d oppose second high court nominee right before presidential election
Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday said he would not support confirming another nominee selected by
President Joe Biden for the Supreme Court immediately before the 2024 presidential election, clarifying remarks he’d made earlier about the midterm elections.
Manchin said he would prefer to wait until the country knows who will occupy the White House in 2025.
Manchin walked back the comment he made earlier afternoon indicating that he would not support confirming a second Biden nominee to the Supreme Court if another vacancy occurs shortly before the Nov. 8 midterm election.
Asked if the Senate should act if another seat becomes vacant “later in the year closer to the election,” Manchin responded: “I’m not going to be hypocritical on that.”
“If it comes a week or two weeks before like it did with our last Supreme Court nominee, I think that’s a time it should go to the next election,” he said.
Manchin’s comments immediately attracted attention on Twitter after several reporters posted his comments.
He then explained to reporters that he “misspoke” and that he would only support holding up a Supreme Court confirmation proceeding immediately before the next presidential election.
“I was referring to that election, before a major presidential election,” he said.
That’s the position he and other Democrats took in the fall of 2020 after
Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September of that year.
Centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday said he would not support confirming another nominee selected by President Joe Biden for the Supreme Court immediately before the 2024 presidential ele…
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