India, July 14 -- Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear expressed his readiness to initiate a legal challenge that would enable him to select a successor for Mitch McConnell should the senator be unable to resume his duties.

Beshear, a member of the Democratic Party, informed Rev. Al Sharpton, the host of MS NOW's Politics Nation, on Sunday that he "might make some news right here" while disclosing the various options available to him as governor for replacing the 84-year-old senator, whose health has been under significant scrutiny for several weeks.

"Our Republican supermajority has been so worried about me being able to potentially support someone before a special election that they passed not one but two laws," Beshear stated. "They tried ...