McConnell: I Hope Dems Will Treat Trump’s SCOTUS Pick the Same We Treated Clinton, Obama Nominees

RADDATZ: “On the Supreme Court, President Trump says he’s announcing the Supreme Court nominee on Thursday. He has said that if Democrats try to filibuster he’d encourage you to invoke the so-called nuclear option and lower the 60-vote threshold currently needed to confirm Supreme Court nominees. So will you consider getting rid of the filibuster?”
MCCONNELL: “Well, look, let me tell you what ought to happen. President Clinton, in his first term, had two Supreme Court nominees, Ginsburg and Breyer. There was no filibuster. And for your listeners, there was no requirement that you get 60 votes to consider them. President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against them.

“We’re in the first term of a new president. What we’re hoping is that our Democratic friends in the minority in the Senate, as we were during those same comparable periods under Clinton and Obama, will treat this nominee in the same way and give him an up-or-down vote. If cloture, that is, if getting 60 votes is required, that happened with Justice Alito; a Democratic minority insisted on that. Cloture was invoked. In other words, he was given the opportunity to have an up-or-down vote on the final nomination."