Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who famously refused to give the last Democratic Supreme Court nominee a Senate hearing or vote, on Thursday said he's ready to give President Biden's pick to the high court "a fair look."
While some conservatives are already taking shots at Biden for pledging to consider only a Black woman to replace retiring liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, McConnell is keeping his powder dry until the nominee is known.
"I'm going to give the president's nominee, whoever that may be, a fair look and to not predict," he told reporters during an event in Mayfield, Kentucky.
"We don't even know who the nominee is," he said.
McConnell has been a leading opponent and critic of much of President Biden's agenda, which he has called "radical" and "reckless," especially Biden's sweeping climate and social spending plans.
But McConnell has also taken pains to work with the president on some issues, countering Democratic claims that he is a knee-jerk obstructionist.
He voted for a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, which Biden touted as a major accomplishment. And he worked out a deal with Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to change the Senate rules temporarily to allow Democrats to raise the debt limit on a party-line vote.
Now McConnell is trying to turn down the temperature on the discussion of the Supreme Court, mindful that liberal activists are pressing Biden to add more justices to balance the current 6-3 conservative majority.
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