Of course the media will scream for return to full complement ASAP.
Nevermind the fact that SCOTUS vacancies have never been filled in a lame duck year, dating back to John Quincy Adams.
The following isn’t just for you but for “All” as well:
History doesn’t mean anything to Obama and his minions. He is going to use the precedent of “recess appointment” to appoint a SC justice, especially since he still is trying to ram through his radical environmental agenda (vis a vis his new EPA regulations that the SC just recently ruled should be put on hold until the lower courts more fully rule).
He’s going to use every tactic in the book to ram through another nominee. We must not even have a HINT of complacency about this. Obama has shown time and time again that he is more than willing to ignore history, the Constitution, the rule of law, everything to ram through his radical leftism.
Guaranteed, he and his minions are already crafting an excuse to ram through another appointee, and he’s probably going to try to use the “recess appointment” as this excuse, to not only forward a nomination, but get the appointee in without Senate confirmation. Bet high, settle for low. He’s going to do that, so that the Senate will “settle” and say “Give us time to confirm!”
But that’s what he wants eventually and will get that confirmation via the same strong arm tactics he used to get the Iran deal through. We must be prepared for this contingency. We can’t rely on historical precedent; it has never stopped Obama before.
Kennedy’s appointment was confirmed by the Senate in 1988.