Bernie Sanders: Election-year Supreme Court vacancy

Bernie Sanders (D) · U.S. Senator (VT)

Topic: Election-year Supreme Court vacancy

THEN · 2016-03-16

“@POTUS has done his job. It’s time for Republicans to do theirs.”

Source: Post on X by @SenSanders on the Garland nomination, Mar. 16, 2016
Verified 2026-10-13: exact text found at the source URL.

NOW · 2020-10-22

“It's dangerous, anti-democratic, and illegitimate to confirm a Supreme Court justice now.”

Source: Post on X by @SenSanders on the Barrett nomination, Oct. 22, 2020
Verified 2026-10-13: exact text found at the source URL.

Context: Garland was nominated about 8 months before the 2016 election; Barrett's confirmation vote came 8 days before the 2020 election, with early voting underway, which Sanders cited. In 2016 the White House and Senate were held by opposite parties; in 2020 by the same party.

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