
Entry 020Mar 10, 2016
“I want you to use my words against me. If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term...”20
20Senator Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator from South Carolina; member, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2016. Source
Why it’s on the record. In 2020 Graham, by then Judiciary chairman, ran the hearings for Amy Coney Barrett weeks before the election. On October 26, 2020 he voted to confirm her, 52-48.
On the record
Republicans were refusing to consider Merrick Garland's nomination. Graham said they were setting a precedent that would bind them too.
- Said by
- Senator Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator from South Carolina; member, Senate Judiciary Committee
- Where
- Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting, Washington, D.C.
- When
- Mar 10, 2016
- Source
- Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2016