Barrasso, R-Wyo., noted on "Fox News @ Night" that when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., balked at scheduling a hearing for President Obama's 2016 SCOTUS nominee, D.C. He highlighted how, in 1888, Democratic President Grover Cleveland was the last commander in chief to nominate a jurist during a state of divided government in an election year. "The one question Senator [Benjamin] Cardin[, D-Md.,] wouldn't answer [in the previous block] was what's Chuck Schumer going to do. "They have an entire war room working on this and they will expand the number of members of Supreme Court regardless of what the Republicans and President Trump do," the Wyoming Republican added. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPDuring the prior interview, Cardin noted, however, that the last time a Supreme Court vacancy occurred this close to a presidential election was 156 years ago.

Source: Fox News September 21, 2020 03:22 UTC