CNN’s Acosta: ‘Brett Kavanaugh Has Not Waited Nearly as Long’ as Merrick Garland

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CILLIZZA: "Remember, Jim, we were supposed to have a vote on Thursday. Let’s go to the next one. I think it's -- yeah, Orrin Hatch, same thing. Expeditiously, maintaining Chairman Grassley's initial timeline. they want to want to done this before the election, let's not make the mistake. Now here is the thing, there's Orrin Hatch, here's the date, this is 2016, the confirmation process will be deferred until after the election season is over. That decision has nothing to do with the identity of the nominee. The nominee of the nominee was Merrick Garland who was Barack Obama’s pick to fill this seat. And let’s do one more. I think we have one more. Mitch McConnell talking about this — oh, let's skip that. But McConnell said the same thing.  Here is Merrick Garland 293 days between the day Barack Obama nominated him and the day that nomination was fully dropped. So --"
ACOSTA: "Brett Kavanaugh has not waited nearly as long as Merrick Garland."