Protests hit home for Mitch over vow to let Senate vote

About 100 protesters swarmed outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky home over the weekend after he said he would move to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.

The crowd gathered outside McConnell’s Louisville house (above) on Saturday, a day after he declared his intention to push for a Senate vote on a court nominee with the presidential election less than two months away.

The demonstrators called out, “Hey, hey, ho, ho! Mitch McConnell has got to go!” “Vote him out!” and “Ditch Mitch!”

The protesters argued that American citizens should have their say in November’s election on whether President Trump will remain in office before a nominee is voted on in the Senate.

“I’m disgusted that Senator McConnell would treat this opportunity in a complete different manner than he treated the opportunity when there was a vacancy when [President Barack] Obama was nine or 10 months away from the election,” Laura Johnsrude, one of the protesters, told the Louisville Courier Journal. “I think that’s appalling.”

The rabble-rousers ended up in a tense standoff with police about whether they were blocking traffic outside the residence, and cops eventually declared the gathering an unlawful assembly.

One protester was arrested at a nearby CVS parking lot for disorderly conduct and improper parking, the newspaper said.

Afterward, several demonstrators entered the store and chanted, before cops told them to scram.

In February 2016, McConnell (inset) refused to allow a vote for Merrick Garland, Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, arguing that it was an election year and that Obama was a lame-duck president with about 11 months left in office.

McConnell has said the situation in 2020 is different.

In a statement issued late Friday, McConnell said the American people had re-elected a GOP majority in the Senate in 2016 and expanded it in 2018 “because we pledged to work with President Trump . . . particularly his outstanding appointments to the federal judiciary. Once again, we will keep our promise.”