Could be about RBG, Except dems don’t control the Senate. So they won’t be able to stop a nomination even if they have an Impeachment inquiry in progress.
They might be able to stop it if they actually have voted for impeachment and the trial is moving to the Senate. But they don’t have the votes for that. And they won’t have the votes for that unless they find something really damning. Not this circus of unsubstantiated accusations.
I think the play was to drum up the Brett stuff, but the NYTs piece was full of holes. I do think it comes down to RBG, probably in much worse health than they are letting on. This is high states. If you go for impeachment, the purpose has to be to remove Trump. Where are the votes? Mitt is just one Republican vote.
Either way they are trying to hype their extremist base whatever happens. They all put out lies and since they suffer no consequences the media repeats and says just reporting the news.