Gotta admit, if this had happened against us, I would not be a happy camper.
It happening against the Democrats, after what they have been pulling for the last few decades, is simple a token of payback, and believe me, it doesn’t even make a dent in the down payment.
The difference between Garland and Gorsuch is that Obama had already appointed two justices, and he’d be replacing an originalist judge with someone who believed in a “living, breathing Constitution.” Trump is getting his first justice, and he’s replacing Scalia with someone who agrees with him.
>>Gotta admit, if this had happened against us, I would not be a happy camper.
But we wouldn’t be whining like a 12 year old about a “stolen” seat. We’d be trying to figure out how we lost Congress and the White House and arguing amongst ourselves if we should move towards the middle or move right and hope the nation wises up.
Correct. More of the down payment can be made by getting all of the rest of the judicial vacancies filled as soon as possible with Trump appointees now that the same standard applies to both Republican and Democrat appointees. The Democrats used the Senate rules to stifle getting the courts filled with Bush appointees and left many vacancies for Obama to fill in addition to the new vacancies that occurred during his tenure, which they of course rammed through by not honoring the same traditions they claimed were so important before - he got to fill way more than what should have been his share.