U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists that Republican refusal to act on President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court is based on principle. Lawmakers merely are continuing to follow the Biden rule. This declaration suggests that, rather than engaging in unparalleled obstructionism, Republican senators are observing one of their esteemed traditions, like eating bean soup in the Capitol cafeteria.
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