Blunt Appears On NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’

(MISSOURINET) – Retired Missouri U-S Senator Roy Blunt was back in the news over the Memorial Day holiday weekend. He was a guest Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press, where one of the topics was whether the U-S Senate in 2016 should have held confirmation hearings for President Obama’s nominee to the U-S Supreme Court. The Republican-led Senate at the time, including Blunt, refused to do so, and he still stands by that decision:

Four years later, Democrats strongly objected when former president Donald Trump nominated – and the Senate confirmed – Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.