Did Lindsey Graham vote the way they spoke on the Supreme Court in March 2016?
Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator (R-SC) ·
If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination. And you could use my words against me, and you'd be absolutely right.
Voted Yea, 26 Oct 2020
Graham said in 2016 that if a vacancy came in the last year of a Republican president's first term, the next president should fill it. In 2020 it did, and he voted to confirm Barrett.
In 2016 Graham said a vacancy in the last year of a Republican president's first term should be left to the next president. In 2020, with a vacancy in the last year of President Trump's first term, he chaired the Barrett hearings and voted to confirm her eight days before the election.
Said vs. voted · Supreme Court
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Said one thing, voted another
What they said
- Date
- Where
- Remarks at a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting after Justice Scalia's death.
How they voted
- Date
- Measure
- Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
- Question
- On the Nomination (Amy Coney Barrett)
- Vote
- Yea