NYTimes: Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to End Government Shutdown

Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to End Government Shutdown https:// nyti.ms/2G52HL9

At the bottom of the article it talks about dems distrust of McConnell, largely in part because he blocked the supreme court nomination of merrick garland for a year until a Republican was in the white house. I posted yesterday about the date noted in that fake email, March 19 2013. Specifically about what happened that day in the news. Coincidentally, one of the articles was this: (image below). What's the relevance, if any? What do we Know about Garland? What does this suggests about McConnell?