Trust me the Democrats would wheel her into the Supreme Court chambers in an iron lung to keep her going until after the November elections. If the GOP holds the Senate, Ginsberg will have to hold on for at least another year to invoke the no nomination in a presidential election year rule. She is not well and depending on the election outcome her deteriorating condition will be a campaign issue. Consider if the GOP continues to hold a slim majority in the Senate after the November elections and Ginsberg were to die in 2019, all hell would break loose regardless of who Trump might nominate
I think that was a good rule for Obama, not for Trump.
I don't see any reason for consistency, do you?
that rule is NOT a rule, but a historically rare event.
it does NOT apply when the Senate majority and the president are in the SAME party... only when they are NOT in the same party...
Trump can nominate right up to the line, and the Senate could confirm and with only 51 or a simple majority vote...
won’t happen however.
she will leave one way or the other in the very very near future... and the president will put up the next one on the roster... the catholic lady.
And she will be confirmed... probably by next year sometime.
my best guess of course... no guarantee for the future.. just very very high probability... of over eighty percent is my best estimate.
[If the GOP holds the Senate, Ginsberg will have to hold on for at least another year to invoke the no nomination in a presidential election year rule.]
If the GOP holds the Senate, Ginsberg will have to hold on for at least another year to invoke the no nomination in a presidential election year rule.
I read yesterday on FR that the rule you describe only applies if the senate is controlled by a party other than the sitting president’s.
If we hold the senate, it doesn’t apply.