Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Saturday made a dramatic U-turn and said that he will support President Donald Trump “in any effort to move forward” regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg.

Earlier, in 2016 Graham had said that a Supreme Court vacancy should not be filled during an election year, adding “use my words against me.”

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“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, ‘Let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,’ ” he said in 2016 after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

However, he was quick to walk back those remarks.

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Graham claimed in a series of tweets that “the two biggest changes regarding the Senate and judicial confirmations that have occurred in the last decade have come from Democrats.” He also accused Chuck Schumer and his friends in the liberal media of conspiring to destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and hold that Supreme Court seat open.

“As to me – I will be part of the Resistance and oppose their radical liberal agenda as they try to fundamentally change America,” the senator added. 

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His recent tweet in support of Trump came hours after the President said that he would choose the Supre Court nominee to fill Ginsburg’s position “without delay.”

Setting stage for a new political battle in US, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell had announced that “Trump’s SC nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.” His statements came shortly after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.