What is the “McConnell Rule”?
5 min readSep 24, 2020
This appeared in The Millennial Source
In 2016, McConnell blocked a vote on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. At the time, McConnell claimed he was doing so to give voters a chance to decide in that year’s upcoming presidential election. This year, he’s not waiting.