The problem is that the moment there is a vacancy in the Vice-Presidency, the Senate is at 50-50 with no tiebreaker. That means GOP support would be needed to confirm a new Vice President.
Harris gets to live a long life as a Justice, Dems and assistant Dems settle on a new VP, who takes over for POTATUS after a suitable waiting period.
A little tough on Breyer and Mrs. POTATUS.
I can’t figure why they installed Harris in the first place, knowing POTATUS was unlikely to survive four years. Maybe they couldn’t decide on someone. Or the someone was someone that would turn off voters.
There’s nothing in the Constitution I’ve read that says she can’t vote for herself in the event there is a tie vote that needs broken. She is still president of the senate and vice president until she resigns the office.
I think they could try an end run; they insist that she needs to resign as vice president first and that the judgeship will be hers, and do a quick vote to get a new VP. Then all of a sudden Harris, discovers her nomination is all bottled up due to “concerns”...thus she has no office and no job.
I don’t like Harris but I dislike Biden much worse. She needs to stay and wave off all disingenuous requests that she take “another one up the rear” for the good of the Democrat party! She needs to hold onto what she has got and goad Biden into a complete meltdown.(Ironically it might be the best thing for the country in that this distraction keeps the Dems from being united.) I think we misjudge her and if pushed, like many women scorned, she will go completely nuclear on Biden! I also think our political enemies know this, too and they are in a sore spot about it. They can’t Epstein her or arkancide her, much to obvious.
It’s what happens when they are so quick to cheat on the vote that they never quite thought about the fact that you still need to have competent people in charge.
I apologized to my son today that he as a 20 something yeart old male will be, with many of his peers, having to endure some years of economic pain and instability with no certainty as to what will happen to our country at the other end of it. The Glorious Appearing?