{"id":34074,"date":"2020-10-30T14:21:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34074"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:21:19","slug":"amy-coney-barretts-scotus-confirmation-was-a-birthday-gift-for-hillary-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=34074","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s SCOTUS Confirmation Was a Birthday Gift for Hillary Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>McConnell: Amy Coney Barrett confirmation was \u2018birthday present\u2019 for Clinton<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"348\" width=\"618\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6204933158001\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->By Lia Eustachewich<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/26\/senate-votes-amy-coney-barrett-to-the-supreme-court\/\">Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s confirmation<\/a>\u00a0to the Supreme Court was a \u201cwonderful birthday present\u201d for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>The wry remark about the former presidential candidate, who turned 73 on Monday, came during a campaign stop in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wonderful birthday present for Hillary Clinton to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court Monday night on her birthday,\u201d McConnell (R-Ky.) told his supporters on Wednesday. \u201cOh, I\u2019m sure she was so grateful, so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton opposed Barrett\u2019s nomination to the highest court of the land and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/1320757171605409793?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vented on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an insult to the American people that the GOP is ramming through a Supreme Court justice with just eight days until the end of an election in which nearly 60 million people have already voted,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/30\/mcconnell-acb-confirmation-wonderful-birthday-present-for-hillary-clinton\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/30\/mcconnell-acb-confirmation-wonderful-birthday-present-for-hillary-clinton\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McConnell: Amy Coney Barrett confirmation was \u2018birthday present\u2019 for Clinton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}