March For Our Lives activists paint mural outside McConnell’s home, calling for SCOTUS selection post-election

Youth March For Our Lives activists on Saturday chalked a mural outside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) Washington, D.C. home calling for a Supreme Court selection after Election Day.

Activists wrote: “Hey Mitch. We Call BS. Let The People Decide.”

Yep @AMarch4OurLives and @WeDemandJustice did that ☺️

Shout out to demand justice and the MFOL Organzing staff that made this possible, y’all rock. https://t.co/YatZ1N5eQX

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) September 26, 2020

The gun violence prevention advocates’ art was in opposition to filling the vacant Supreme Court seat left by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – who died last week from pancreatic cancer – prior to Election Day.

President Trump is expected to move ahead with the justice nomination Saturday, and it is widely reported that he plans on nominating Amy Coney Barrett, who was spotted leaving her Indiana home Saturday to fly to Washington D.C. ahead of the president’s scheduled announcement.

Critics of the nomination have said the next Supreme Court justice should be named by the person who wins the Nov. 3 election. However, Republican control of the Senate and the administration favors a swift appointment for the GOP.

McConnell said last week that a justice nomination by the president would receive the vote of the Senate.

“The historical precedent is overwhelming, and it runs in one direction. If our Democratic colleagues want to claim they are outraged, they can only be outraged at the plain facts of American history,” said McConnell.

Demonstrators gathered outside the majority leader’s Kentucky home last Saturday in protest to his Supreme Court comments.

The 78-year-old is running for his seventh term in the upper chamber, where he’s served as the Republican leader since 2007 and the majority leader since 2015.

A recent survey from Quinnipiac University showed McConnell holding a 12-point lead against his Democratic opponent Amy McGrath.