THe garland vacancey was going to take long anyway because it was unexpected, following a death. THis vacancy was created by retirement in the expectation it would get filled by October, like EVERY retirement vacancy has been in the recent history of the court.
The democrats also contributed to the long vacancy of Scalia’s seat, by blocking consideration of Gorsuch, requiring the republicans to remove the filibuster for SC judges.
And this vacancy would be much longer than “2 years”. It has already been 3 months, the 2020 election is 2 years and 2 months away, a new president wouldn’t make a nomination until Feb-march, and it would take a few months. So almost 3 years of vacancy. And Another vacancy could occur during that time.
This is the woman who asks every male, but not every female, if they ever “verbally sexually assaulted” a woman. If I were asked that, I would say “I have no doubt that at least one woman I spoke with in my entire life interpreted something I said as a verbal assault.”
“this vacancy would be much longer than “2 years”.”
The hypocracy of the D’s is beyond the pale. They are hoping the midterms will somehow result in Democrats taking control of the Senate and therefor we should not only wait until then but until the next president to fill the seat, contending essentially the midterms are a national vote on the Supreme Court.
Yet the last time an election could have really been considered a referendum on a national policy they got plastered, and refused to accept the result. Never had there been so safe a seat for the Democrats as Ted Kennedy’s - yet when they lost his seat to Republican Scott Brown as a direct reflection of the opposition to Obamacare even by Democrats, they refused to allow the conventional process in the Senate to be observed and pushed the previously passed Senate version through the House without any opportunity for a House version and then using only filibuster free budget reconciliation as a way to address House concerns.
When Republicans end up gaining 4 to 9 Senate seats in November’s election, what will they then argue?