The Republicans were just following “The Biden Rule” from when former VP Joe Biden was in the senate and declared that no supreme court vacancy should be filled in the last year of an administration leaving power... Of course, Joe was aimed at the Repubs but if its good enough for dems, its good enough for Republicans to follow.
Exactly, and rightly so.
But such geniuses as Biden and Russert are not restrained or guided by the past, unlike a historian such as yourself.
They are visionaries whose gazed is fixed far over the horizon, on a Leftist land of milk and honey, where someday even they might get another job.