Letter: Don’t be a hypocrite, Mike Lee

When Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed away in February 2016, Sen. Mitch McConnell was struck with an idea: Create a new rule and precedent that a president cannot fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court during an election year. Our resident constitutional law expert, Sen. Mike Lee, saw fit to follow this rule and co-signed it by denying then Merrick Garland so much as a hearing in the Senate. The vacancy left by Justice Scalia was then filled the following year, after President Donald Trump was in