Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer floated a possible Supreme Court nominee to President Donald Trump this week who likely had as good a chance at being picked as Hillary Clinton.

Schumer, in a private and brief phone call, suggested that the commander-in-chief nominate federal Judge Merrick B. Garland, ex-President Barack Obama’s third nominee to the Supreme Court, the Washington Post reported.

Garland’s 2016 nomination as a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia was immediately shelved by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who wouldn’t even give Obama’s nominee the courtesy of a hearing.

There was an election coming up, McConnell intoned, arguing that the American people should have a voice in the selection, which should be made after the election was over.

McConnell changed his tune after Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, insisting now that Kennedy’s replacement should be confirmed before the midterm elections.

Trump called Schumer on Tuesday afternoon for a conversation on the court that lasted less than five minutes, a person familiar with the call told the paper.

Schumer said nominating Garland would help unite the country.

He also warned Trump that nominating a judge hostile to Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that legalized abortion nationwide, would be “cataclysmic” and damage the president’s legacy, the source added.