Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFEC flags McConnell campaign over suspected accounting errors Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE (R-Ky.) on Thursday mocked a report that Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerCruz blocks amended resolution honoring Ginsburg over language about her dying wish Senate Democrats introduce legislation to probe politicization of pandemic response Schumer interrupted during live briefing by heckler: 'Stop lying to the people' MORE (D-N.Y.) asked President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE to nominate Merrick Garland Merrick Brian GarlandPoll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' Chief justice honors Ginsburg: 'When she spoke, people listened' MORE to the Supreme Court by tweeting a GIF of former NBA star Michael Jordan.

McConnell's official Twitter account tweeted the GIF in response to Washington Post reporter Robert Costa's tweet, which said that Schumer urged Trump to tap Garland to the Supreme Court.

Garland was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama in 2016. But the nomination was delayed by McConnell, with the GOP senator arguing that a justice shouldn't be confirmed to the bench during an election year.

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Many Democrats have seized on that argument to call McConnell a hypocrite, since he said the Senate would vote on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee by this fall despite the midterm elections this November.

This isn't the first time he's used Twitter to troll Democratic lawmakers. After the Supreme Court upheld Trump's travel ban in late May, McConnell shared a photo of him greeting conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Gorsuch, who was nominated by Trump shortly after the election, sided with the majority of the justices in upholding the ban.

Trump is expected to pick a new nominee to the Supreme Court on July 9. The White House said his decision would come from a previously released list of 25 names. But new reports have surfaced that say Trump has narrowed his decision down to three candidates.