A Democratic governor filling Mitch McConnell's seat with a Republican would be fitting if that’s how his tenure ends, writes Jordan_S_Rubin.
to the U.S. Constitution. The purpose of that amendment, Beshear said, was to remove the power to select senators from political party bosses. The GOP-led Kentucky Legislature overrode the veto.gives the governor a choice, but from a list of three names submitted by the state executive committee of the same political party as the senator whose seat is being filled. Kentucky’s other U.S. senator, Rand Paul, is also a Republican.
To be sure, no one believed that dubious reasoning — that Scalia’s seat should have been filled by the next president in 2016, and that Ginsburg’s seat actually didn’t have to be filled by the next president in 2020. But no one had to believe it for Republicans to cement a supermajority on the high court.
McConnell and the GOP know the results are what matter, and so a Democratic governor filling his seat with a Republican would be fitting if that’s how his tenure ends.
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