Yep, if there is a Supreme Court vacancy, this will be the dirtiest fight ever. Schumer and company will take Supreme Court battles to the lowest levels ever.
I think Stephens or GInsberg will have an easier time retiring now that the Dems control the Senate.
And IMO if Bush and the GOP minority have some balls, they can still get a good pick.
Nope, there won't be a fight at all. They simply won't schedule a vote.
Recall how hard it was to get Alito and Roberts to a vote and that's when the Republicans had a clear and arguably filibuster-proof coalition.
Frist and his fellow incompetent traitors had their chance to take the issue to the mat and settle it once and for all via "the nuclear option" or "the Constitutional option", as you prefer, let the Dems stamp their little feet, declare them Out Of Order, and make it official that delaying tactics and refusing to vote was not an option, and they refused to do it.
So we're all screwed.
Dream on.
Do you know how many Republican Senators opposed feminist communist Ruth Bader Ginsberg in 1993?
Somebody's going to get accused of murder.