{"id":30544,"date":"2018-06-26T22:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T22:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30544"},"modified":"2018-06-26T22:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T22:06:41","slug":"obstructionism-pays-off-for-sen-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30544","title":{"rendered":"Obstructionism pays off for Sen. McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gorsuch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30549\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gorsuch-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gorsuch-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gorsuch-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gorsuch-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gorsuch.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who says obstructionism doesn&#8217;t pay dividends &#8230; <em>bigly?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in Texas in 2016. Within hours of his death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that President Obama would not be allowed to fill the seat left vacant by the conservative icon&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Obama nominated U.S. District Judge Merrick Garland to the court. McConnell didn&#8217;t even allow Garland a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. The nomination didn&#8217;t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2016 election. Trump then selected Neil Gorsuch for the high court. The Senate confirmed him.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the court upheld Trump&#8217;s travel ban. The vote was 5 to 4. Gorsuch voted with the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Obstructionism doesn&#8217;t pay? Oh, you bet it does.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says obstructionism doesn&#8217;t pay dividends &#8230; bigly? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in Texas in 2016. Within hours of his death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that President Obama would not be allowed to fill the seat left vacant by the conservative icon&#8217;s death. Obama nominated U.S. District Judge Merrick Garland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obstructionism pays off for Sen. McConnell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[412,540,1424,6063,6899,5053],"class_list":["post-30544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-merrick-garland","tag-neil-gorsuch","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30550,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30544\/revisions\/30550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}