Manchin: Midterm SCOTUS vacancy = No

I spent an entertaining 20 minutes on social media this afternoon watching liberals have conniptions in response to this comment.He infuriated them by tanking Build Back Better. He made mortal enemies of them by refusing to change the filibuster to pass voting-rights legislation.

If he denied them a Supreme Court seat — particularly an opportunity to replace a conservative on the Court — I think they’d sink his house boat.

Manchin tells reporters of a hypothetical SCOTUS vacancy close to an election: “I’m not going to be hypocritical on that. If it would come a week or two weeks before like it did with our last Supreme Court nominee, I think that’s the time it should go to the next election”
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) February 14, 2022

What does Manchin mean when he says he doesn’t want to be hypocritical? Well, despite his habit of support …

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