A recent state law directs the governor to select a Senate appointee from a list of three names submitted by the state executive committee of the outgoing senator’s party.
When pressed on the matter Thursday, Beshear said: “Well, I respect Sen. McConnell and his health not -- first of all, to not sensationalize it and, second, there is no vacancy. So he has said he’s going to serve out his term and I fully believe him.”
State laws vary when it comes to filling congressional vacancies, and the Kentucky General Assembly changed its procedures in 2021 after the GOP-controlled legislature was able to override Beshear’s veto of a bill that limited the governor's power to temporarily fill a Senate vacancy., the governor selects a Senate appointee from a list of three names submitted by the state executive committee of the outgoing senator’s affiliated party.
Kentucky state law previously permitted the governor to appoint a replacement for a vacant Senate seat until the next general House election, which occurs every two years., Beshear cited the state Constitution in suggesting that the bill “improperly and unconstitutionally" restricted the governor’s power to fill Senate vacancies.
The bill “upends a century of precedent by delegating the power to select the representative of all Kentuckians to an unelected, unaccountable committee of an organization that represents only a fraction of Kentuckians," he said in the statement.took place in July during a news conference on Capitol Hill, with the senator abruptly pausing, with a blank look, until he was briefly escorted away. After returning, he appeared to brush off the incident, telling reporters, “I’m fine.
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