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Mitt Romney supports Trump’s nominee to replace RBG at Supreme Court, Internet calls it 'top level hypocrisy'

'The constitution gives the president the power to nominate and the senate the authority to provide advice and consent on Supreme Court nominees,' Romney stated

Mitt Romney is facing heavy criticism for showing his support for President Donald Trump’s unnamed nominee, who will be a replacement for late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat. In a statement on Twitter, the Republican from Utah stated: “My decision regarding a Supreme Court nomination is not the result of a subjective test of “fairness” which, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. It is based on the immutable fairness of following the law, which in this case is the constitution and precedent. The historical precedent of election year nominations is that the senate generally does not confirm an opposing party’s nominee but does confirm a nominee of its own. The constitution gives the president the power to nominate and the senate the authority to provide advice and consent on Supreme Court nominees. Accordingly, I intend to follow the constitution and precedent in considering the president’s nominee. If the nominee reaches the senate floor, I intend to vote based upon their qualifications.”

Besides, Romney also told reporters that a “liberal court” is “not written in the stars.” "I recognize that we may have a Court which has more of a conservative bent than it has had over the last few decades, but my liberal friends have over many decades gotten used to the idea of having a liberal court and that's not written in the stars,” the 73-year-old stated. But his latest stand has left Twitter shocked since he has long been a vocal critic of the president. Romney earlier said that he is already planning for a post-Trump Republican era, adding that Trump is not going to be the president forever.

Speaking with The Atlantic in October last year, he mentioned, “The president will not be the president forever. Berating another person, or calling them names, or demeaning a class of people, not telling the truth - those are not private things." Not just this, recently in June, a report claimed that Romney won’t support Trump's re-election in November. The Republican leader is reportedly against mail-in voting and believes its result cannot be trusted.

As soon as Romney’s statement was out, people took to Twitter to express their views and to highlight the senator’s hypocrisy. One person tweeted: “This is a ridiculous statement. It suggests that an inherently political decision is not, in fact, based on politics, but instead on "law" and "precedent," neither of which have anything to do with this," adding: “What this suggests is that Romney is having trouble explicitly defending the _substance_ of his likely vote, which is to give the GOP a super-majority of the Supreme Court even as the party is about to get rejected by the public. So he talks about process instead.”

“Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on confirming a Supreme Court nomination: "My liberal friends have over many decades gotten very used to the idea of having a liberal court, but that's not written in the stars." The court has been dominated by the right for 45 years,” commented another user. A third person wrote sarcastically, “Mitt Romney marched with black lives matter now will vote to confirm judges that believe in the criminalization of protesting.”

“That’s the kind of top-level hypocrisy you get with a guy like Romney. You want grossly obvious hypocrisy, you go with your Cruzes or Grahams, but if you want your hypocrisy layered, nuanced, it’s Romney all the way,” mentioned a fourth social media user.