[TEXOKIE]

To: TEXOKIE
“I believe McConnell would allow a nomination in 2020 if he can find a Senate Rule to justify it. He found one to justify putting it off, and I forget what that was - I have a dim memory of something that Obama had set in motion that allowed him to take that stance.”

There is no rule. The case that was made is that you shouldn’t confirm a justice in the last year of a lame duck presidency. Trump won’t be in that situation for another 5 years, if at all. In any event, since there is no rule, McConnell can (and likely will given the chance) push the confirmation process through if it presents itself.

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THANKS! I’d forgotten the lame duck element. I am hoping indeed that McConnell will be full steam ahead and damn the torpedos on the confirmations.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Humm...How about “Ruthie was brain dead in January 2019 and you hid it from us?”

[ez]

THANKS! I’d forgotten the lame duck element. I am hoping indeed that McConnell will be full steam ahead and damn the torpedos on the confirmations.

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One is not technically a lame duck if one is running for re-election. That should be the argument.