Loeffler pushes back after Schumer says 'no precedent' for confirming SCOTUS pick between July and Election Day

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., has pushed back against a claim by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that there was “no precedent” for confirming a Supreme Court nominee between July and Election Day in a presidential year.

“In fact on three separate occasions, a duly elected president appointed and the Senate confirmed a Supreme Court justice in a presidential election year,” Loeffler said in a statement for the record dated Sept. 23.

Schumer had posed a parliamentary inquiry on the Senate floor, asking whether there was precedent for confirming a Supreme Court nominee between July and Election Day. Loeffler, presiding in the chair, said at the time that there was no such precedent per Senate records.

“As you just heard, not from the Democratic leader but from the records in the Senate as spoken by the chair, there is no, no, no precedent for confirming a Supreme Court justice between July and Election Day,” Schumer said, referring to Republican efforts to fill the seat vacated by the death of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last week.

But Loeffler noted in her statement for the record that there have been three su... (Read more)

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