The cool thing about having no moral values and no accountability to your Creator is that you can lie without a guilty conscience. Whatever you can get away with is good to you. Or so it seems to be the case when I observe the liberals (progressives in the sense that they are on that infamous trip in a handbasket).
“Fair and timely hearing”, then reject them out of hand. Remember the difficulty Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 43 had even getting a candidate to be CONSIDERED by Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy?
Payback time.
Remember Robert Bork, and the nearly year and a half before finally seating Anthony Kennedy. After Lewis Powell, a so-called “moderate”, announced his retirement on June 26, 1987, Senate Democrats had asked liberal leaders to form a “solid phalanx” to oppose an “ideological extremist” to replace Powell. Democrats warned Reagan there would be a fight over the nomination if Bork were to be the nominee. And remember Joe Biden’s fingerprints all over that report that called up so many scurrilous and spurious misrepresentations of Bork’s past judicial decisions.
Justice Scalia did not get to announce his “retirement”.