I believe that McConnell could simply decline to hold a trial in the Senate at this time.
There was some talk around impeachment hoax 1.0 that a POTUS under impeachment charge could not nominate someone to SCOTUS. Dems have been talking about this for a while. I don’t recall all the details.
Impeachment’s done in the House. Mitch would ignore it and push all this judges (including SC) to confirmation.
“I believe that McConnell could simply decline to hold a trial in the Senate at this time.”
Agreed.