McCain: GOP needs to prevent SCOTUS from ’tilting to the left’

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said during a Thursday rally that Republicans need to prevent the Supreme Court from “tilting to the left.”

{mosads}“There could be as many as three Supreme Court justices that will be chosen in the next four years,” McCain said during a get-out-the-vote rally, as reported by The Washington Post.

“We have to have a Senate who will prevent that four-to-four split from tilting to the left and making decisions that will harm this nation for decades to come.”

Last month, the Arizona senator told a Philadelphia radio station Republicans would “be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton — if she were president — would put up.”

The Arizona senator later walked back his implication that GOP senators would automatically oppose any potential Supreme Court nominee from the Democrat.

Rachael Dean, a spokeswoman for the GOP senator, said although McCain “believes you can only judge people by their record” and the Democratic presidential nominee “has a clear record of supporting liberal judicial nominees,” he would consider any Supreme Court pick sent to the chamber.