[tinyowl]

I don't know if this has been brought up, but it struck me when I heard it today, and Wikipedia confirms it, and I believe it means Obama has zero intention or hope that Garland would ever ever ever be selected. Rather, it's a pure political play to start lining up nominees for the Republicans to shoot down.

They guy is 63. Are you REALLY going to nominate a guy that old? Look at past nominations.

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
1
2	Nominee		President		Replacing		Nomination
3	Nominee	Age	President	Party	Justice	Seat	Senate Control	Submitted to Senate	Result	Vote	Date of Result	Days
4	John Jay	43	Washington	None	Inaugural	CJ	PA	9/24/1789	confirmed	voice	9/26/1789	2
5	John Rutledge	50	Washington	None	Inaugural	1	PA	9/24/1789	confirmed	voice	9/26/1789	2
6	William Cushing	57	Washington	None	Inaugural	2	PA	9/24/1789	confirmed	voice	9/26/1789	2
7	Robert H. Harrison	44	Washington	None	Inaugural	5	PA	9/24/1789	declined		9/26/1789	2
8	James Wilson	47	Washington	None	Inaugural	3	PA	9/24/1789	confirmed	voice	9/26/1789	2
9	John Blair, Jr.	57	Washington	None	Inaugural	4	PA	9/24/1789	confirmed	voice	9/26/1789	2
10	James Iredell	38	Washington	None	Inaugural	5	PA	2/8/1790	confirmed	voice	2/10/1790	2
11	Thomas Johnson[2]	57	Washington	None	Rutledge	1	PA	11/1/1791	confirmed	voice	11/7/1791	6
12	William Paterson	47	Washington	None	Johnson	1	PA	2/27/1793	withdrawn		2/28/1793	1
13	William Paterson	47	Washington	None	Johnson	1	PA	3/4/1793	confirmed	voice	3/4/1793	0
14	John Rutledge[1]	56	Washington	None	Jay	CJ	Fed	12/10/1795	rejected	10–14	12/15/1795	5
15	William Cushing[3]	63	Washington	None	Rutledge	CJ	Fed	1/26/1796	declined		1/27/1796	1
16	Samuel Chase	55	Washington	None	Blair	4	Fed	1/26/1796	confirmed	voice	1/27/1796	1
17	Oliver Ellsworth	51	Washington	None	Rutledge	CJ	Fed	3/3/1796	confirmed	21–1	3/4/1796	1
18	Bushrod Washington	36	J. Adams	Fed	Wilson	3	Fed	12/19/1798	confirmed	voice	12/20/1798	1
19	Alfred Moore	44	J. Adams	Fed	Iredell	5	Fed	12/4/1799	confirmed	voice	12/10/1799	6
20	John Jay	55	J. Adams	Fed	Ellsworth	CJ	Fed	12/18/1800	declined		12/19/1800	1
21	John Marshall	45	J. Adams	Fed	Ellsworth	CJ	Fed	1/20/1801	confirmed	voice	1/27/1801	7
22	William Johnson	32	Jefferson	D-R	Moore	5	D-R	3/22/1804	confirmed	voice	3/24/1804	2
23	Henry B. Livingston	49	Jefferson	D-R	Paterson	1	D-R	12/13/1806	confirmed	voice	12/17/1806	4
24	Thomas Todd	42	Jefferson	D-R	Inaugural	6	D-R	2/28/1807	confirmed	voice	3/2/1807	2
25	Levi Lincoln, Sr.	61	Madison	D-R	Cushing	2	D-R	1/2/1811	declined		1/3/1811	1
26	Alexander Wolcott	52	Madison	D-R	Cushing	2	D-R	2/4/1811	rejected	9–24	2/13/1811	9
27	John Quincy Adams	43	Madison	D-R	Cushing	2	D-R	2/21/1811	declined		2/22/1811	1
28	Joseph Story	32	Madison	D-R	Cushing	2	D-R	11/15/1811	confirmed	voice	11/18/1811	3
29	Gabriel Duvall	58	Madison	D-R	Chase	4	D-R	11/15/1811	confirmed	voice	11/18/1811	3
30	Smith Thompson[1]	55	Monroe	D-R	Livingston	1	D-R	12/5/1823	confirmed	voice	12/9/1823	4
31	Robert Trimble	49	J. Q. Adams	D-R	Todd	6	D-R	4/11/1826	confirmed	27–5	5/9/1826	28
32	John J. Crittenden	41	J. Q. Adams	D-R	Trimble	6	D-R	12/17/1828	postponed	23–17	2/12/1829	57
33	John McLean	43	Jackson	Dem	Trimble	6	Dem	3/6/1829	confirmed	voice	3/7/1829	1
34	Henry Baldwin	49	Jackson	Dem	Washington	3	Dem	1/4/1830	confirmed	41–2	1/6/1830	2
35	James Moore Wayne	44	Jackson	Dem	Johnson	5	NR	1/6/1835	confirmed	voice	1/9/1835	3
36	Roger B. Taney	57	Jackson	Dem	Duvall	4	NR	1/15/1835	postponed	24–21	3/3/1835	47
37	Roger B. Taney	58	Jackson	Dem	Marshall	CJ	Dem	12/28/1835	confirmed	29–15	3/15/1836	78
38	Philip P. Barbour	52	Jackson	Dem	Duvall	4	Dem	12/28/1835	confirmed	30–11	3/15/1836	78
39	William Smith	74	Jackson	Dem	Inaugural	7	Dem	3/3/1837	declined	23–18	3/8/1837	5
40	John Catron	51	Jackson	Dem	Inaugural	7	Dem	3/3/1837	confirmed	28–15	3/8/1837	5
41	John McKinley	57	Van Buren	Dem	Inaugural	8	Dem	9/18/1837	confirmed	voice	9/25/1837	7
42	Peter Vivian Daniel	56	Van Buren	Dem	Barbour	4	Dem	2/26/1841	confirmed	25–5	3/2/1841	4
43	John C. Spencer	56	Tyler	None	Thompson	1	Whig	1/9/1844	rejected	21–26	1/31/1844	22
44	Reuben Walworth	55	Tyler	None	Thompson	1	Whig	3/13/1844	withdrawn	27–20[4]	6/17/1844	4
45	Edward King	50	Tyler	None	Baldwin	3	Whig	6/5/1844	postponed	29–18	6/15/1844	10
46	John C. Spencer	56	Tyler	None	Thompson	1	Whig	6/17/1844	withdrawn		6/17/1844	0
47	Reuben Walworth	55	Tyler	None	Thompson	1	Whig	6/17/1844	no action		June 17, 1844[5]	0
48	Edward King	50	Tyler	None	Baldwin	3	Whig	12/4/1844	withdrawn		2/7/1845	65
49	Reuben Walworth	56	Tyler	None	Thompson	1	Whig	12/4/1844	withdrawn		2/4/1845	62
50	Samuel Nelson	52	Tyler	None	Thompson	1	Whig	2/4/1845	confirmed	voice	2/14/1845	10
51	John M. Read	47	Tyler	None	Baldwin	3	Whig	2/7/1845	no action			0
52	George Woodward	36	Polk	Dem	Baldwin	3	Dem	12/23/1845	rejected	20–29	1/22/1846	30
53	Levi Woodbury[1]	56	Polk	Dem	Story	2	Dem	12/23/1845	confirmed	voice	1/31/1846	39
54	Robert Cooper Grier	52	Polk	Dem	Baldwin	3	Dem	8/3/1846	confirmed	voice	8/4/1846	1
55	Benjamin R. Curtis[1]	42	Fillmore	Whig	Woodbury	2	Dem	12/11/1851	confirmed	voice	12/20/1851	9
56	Edward A. Bradford	38	Fillmore	Whig	McKinley	8	Dem	8/16/1852	no action			0
57	George E. Badger	57	Fillmore	Whig	McKinley	8	Dem	1/3/1853	withdrawn		2/14/1853	42
58	William C. Micou	46	Fillmore	Whig	McKinley	8	Dem	2/14/1853	no action			0
59	John A. Campbell	41	Pierce	Dem	McKinley	8	Dem	3/21/1853	confirmed	voice	3/22/1853	1
60	Nathan Clifford	54	Buchanan	Dem	Curtis	2	Dem	12/9/1857	confirmed	26–23	1/12/1858	34
61	Jeremiah S. Black	51	Buchanan	Dem	Daniel	4	Dem	2/5/1861	no action	25–26[6]	2/21/1861	16
62	Noah Haynes Swayne	57	Lincoln	Rep	McLean	6	Rep	1/21/1862	confirmed	38–1	1/24/1862	3
63	Samuel Freeman Miller	48	Lincoln	Rep	Daniel	4	Rep	7/16/1862	confirmed	voice	7/16/1862	0
64	David Davis	47	Lincoln	Rep	Campbell	8	Rep	12/1/1862	confirmed	voice	12/8/1862	7
65	Stephen Johnson Field	46	Lincoln	Rep	Inaugural	9	Rep	3/6/1863	confirmed	voice	3/10/1863	4
66	Salmon P. Chase	56	Lincoln	Rep	Taney	CJ	Rep	12/6/1864	confirmed	voice	12/6/1864	0
67	Henry Stanbery	63	A. Johnson	None	Catron	7	Rep	4/16/1866	no action			0
68	Ebenezer R. Hoar	53	Grant	Rep	Inaugural	10	Rep	12/14/1869	rejected	24–33	2/3/1870	51
69	Edwin M. Stanton	54	Grant	Rep	Grier	3	Rep	12/20/1869	confirmed[7]	46–11	12/20/1869	0
70	William Strong	61	Grant	Rep	Grier	3	Rep	2/7/1870	confirmed		2/18/1870	1
71	Joseph P. Bradley	56	Grant	Rep	Inaugural	10	Rep	2/7/1870	confirmed	46–9	3/21/1870	42
72	Ward Hunt	62	Grant	Rep	Nelson	1	Rep	12/3/1872	confirmed	voice	12/11/1872	8
73	George Henry Williams	50	Grant	Rep	Chase	CJ	Rep	12/1/1873	withdrawn		1/8/1874	38
74	Caleb Cushing	73	Grant	Rep	Chase	CJ	Rep	1/9/1874	withdrawn		1/13/1874	4
75	Morrison Waite	58	Grant	Rep	Chase	CJ	Rep	1/19/1874	confirmed	63–0	1/21/1874	2
76	John Marshall Harlan	44	Hayes	Rep	Davis	8	Rep	10/16/1877	confirmed	voice	11/29/1877	44
77	William Burnham Woods	56	Hayes	Rep	Strong	3	Dem	12/15/1880	confirmed	39–8	12/21/1880	6
78	Stanley Matthews	57	Hayes	Rep	Swayne	6	Dem	1/26/1881	no action			0
79	Stanley Matthews	57	Garfield	Rep	Swayne	6	Split	3/14/1881	confirmed	24–23	5/12/1881	59
80	Horace Gray	53	Arthur	Rep	Clifford	2	Split	12/19/1881	confirmed	51–5	12/20/1881	1
81	Roscoe Conkling	52	Arthur	Rep	Hunt	1	Split	2/24/1882	declined	39–12	3/2/1882	6
82	Samuel Blatchford	62	Arthur	Rep	Hunt	1	Split	3/13/1882	confirmed	voice	3/22/1882	9
83	Lucius Q.C. Lamar	62	Cleveland	Dem	Woods	3	Rep	12/6/1887	confirmed	32–28	1/16/1888	41
84	Melville Fuller	55	Cleveland	Dem	Waite	CJ	Rep	4/30/1888	confirmed	41–20	7/20/1888	81
85	David Josiah Brewer	52	B. Harrison	Rep	Matthews	6	Rep	12/4/1889	confirmed	53–11	12/18/1889	14
86	Henry Billings Brown	54	B. Harrison	Rep	Miller	4	Rep	12/23/1890	confirmed	voice	12/29/1890	6
87	George Shiras, Jr.	60	B. Harrison	Rep	Bradley	10	Rep	7/19/1892	confirmed	voice	7/26/1892	7
88	Howell E. Jackson	60	B. Harrison	Rep	Lamar	3	Rep	2/2/1893	confirmed	voice	2/18/1893	16
89	William Hornblower	42	Cleveland	Dem	Blatchford	1	Dem	9/19/1893	no action			0
90	William Hornblower	42	Cleveland	Dem	Blatchford	1	Dem	12/5/1893	rejected	24–30	1/15/1894	41
91	Wheeler H. Peckham	61	Cleveland	Dem	Blatchford	1	Dem	1/22/1894	rejected	32–41	2/16/1894	25
92	Edward D. White	61	Cleveland	Dem	Blatchford	1	Dem	2/19/1894	confirmed	voice	2/19/1894	0
93	Rufus W. Peckham	57	Cleveland	Dem	Jackson	3	Rep	12/3/1895	confirmed	voice	12/9/1895	6
94	Joseph McKenna	54	McKinley	Rep	Field	9	Rep	12/16/1897	confirmed	voice	1/21/1898	36
95	Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.[1]	61	T. Roosevelt	Rep	Gray	2	Rep	12/2/1902	confirmed	voice	12/4/1902	2
96	William R. Day	53	T. Roosevelt	Rep	Shiras	10	Rep	2/19/1903	confirmed	voice	2/23/1903	4
97	William Henry Moody	52	T. Roosevelt	Rep	Brown	4	Rep	12/3/1906	confirmed	voice	12/12/1906	9
98	Horace Harmon Lurton	65	Taft	Rep	Peckham	3	Rep	12/13/1909	confirmed	voice	12/20/1909	7
99	Charles Evans Hughes	48	Taft	Rep	Brewer	6	Rep	4/25/1910	confirmed	voice	5/2/1910	7
100	Edward D. White[2]	65	Taft	Rep	Fuller	CJ	Rep	12/12/1910	confirmed	voice	12/12/1910	0
101	Willis Van Devanter	51	Taft	Rep	White	1	Rep	12/12/1910	confirmed	voice	12/15/1910	3
102	Joseph Rucker Lamar	53	Taft	Rep	Moody	4	Rep	12/12/1910	confirmed	voice	12/15/1910	3
103	Mahlon Pitney	54	Taft	Rep	Harlan	8	Rep	2/19/1912	confirmed	50–26	3/13/1912	23
104	James C. McReynolds	52	Wilson	Dem	Lurton	3	Dem	8/19/1914	confirmed	44–6	8/29/1914	10
105	Louis Brandeis	59	Wilson	Dem	Lamar	4	Dem	1/28/1916	confirmed	47–22	6/1/1916	125
106	John Hessin Clarke	58	Wilson	Dem	Hughes	6	Dem	7/14/1916	confirmed	voice	7/24/1916	10
107	William Howard Taft	63	Harding	Rep	White	CJ	Rep	6/30/1921	confirmed	voice	6/30/1921	0
108	George Sutherland	60	Harding	Rep	Clarke	6	Rep	9/5/1922	confirmed	voice	9/5/1922	0
109	Pierce Butler	56	Harding	Rep	Day	10	Rep	11/21/1922	no action			0
110	Pierce Butler	56	Harding	Rep	Day	10	Rep	12/5/1922	confirmed	61–8	12/21/1922	16
111	Edward Terry Sanford	58	Harding	Rep	Pitney	8	Rep	1/24/1923	confirmed	voice	1/29/1923	5
112	Harlan F. Stone	52	Coolidge	Rep	McKenna	9	Rep	1/5/1925	confirmed	71–6	2/5/1925	31
113	Charles Evans Hughes	67	Hoover	Rep	Taft	CJ	Rep	2/3/1930	confirmed	52–26	2/13/1930	10
114	John J. Parker	44	Hoover	Rep	Sanford	8	Rep	3/21/1930	rejected	39–41	5/7/1930	47
115	Owen Roberts	55	Hoover	Rep	Sanford	8	Rep	5/9/1930	confirmed	voice	5/20/1930	11
116	Benjamin N. Cardozo	61	Hoover	Rep	Holmes	2	Rep	2/15/1932	confirmed	voice	2/24/1932	9
117	Hugo Black	51	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Van Devanter	1	Dem	8/12/1937	confirmed	63–16	8/17/1937	5
118	Stanley Forman Reed	53	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Sutherland	6	Dem	1/15/1938	confirmed	voice	1/25/1938	10
119	Felix Frankfurter	56	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Cardozo	2	Dem	1/5/1939	confirmed	voice	1/17/1939	12
120	William O. Douglas	40	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Brandeis	4	Dem	3/20/1939	confirmed	62–4	4/4/1939	15
121	Frank Murphy	50	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Butler	10	Dem	1/4/1940	confirmed	voice	1/16/1940	14
122	Harlan F. Stone[2]	68	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Hughes	CJ	Dem	6/12/1941	confirmed	voice	6/27/1941	15
123	James F. Byrnes	58	F. Roosevelt	Dem	McReynolds	3	Dem	6/12/1941	confirmed	voice	6/12/1941	0
124	Robert H. Jackson	49	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Stone	9	Dem	6/12/1941	confirmed	voice	7/7/1941	25
125	Wiley Blount Rutledge	48	F. Roosevelt	Dem	Byrnes	3	Dem	1/11/1943	confirmed	voice	2/8/1943	28
126	Harold Hitz Burton	57	Truman	Dem	Roberts	8	Dem	9/19/1945	confirmed	voice	9/19/1945	0
127	Fred M. Vinson	56	Truman	Dem	Stone	CJ	Dem	6/6/1946	confirmed	voice	6/20/1946	14
128	Tom C. Clark	49	Truman	Dem	Murphy	10	Dem	8/2/1949	confirmed	73–8	8/18/1949	16
129	Sherman Minton	58	Truman	Dem	Rutledge	3	Dem	9/15/1949	confirmed	48–16	10/4/1949	19
130	Earl Warren[1]	62	Eisenhower	Rep	Vinson	CJ	Rep	1/11/1954	confirmed	voice	3/1/1954	49
131	John Marshall Harlan II	55	Eisenhower	Rep	Jackson	9	Rep	11/9/1954	no action			0
132	John Marshall Harlan II	55	Eisenhower	Rep	Jackson	9	Rep	1/10/1955	confirmed	71–11	3/16/1955	65
133	William J. Brennan, Jr.[1]	50	Eisenhower	Rep	Minton	3	Dem	1/14/1957	confirmed	voice	3/19/1957	64
134	Charles Evans Whittaker	56	Eisenhower	Rep	Reed	6	Dem	3/2/1957	confirmed	voice	3/19/1957	17
135	Potter Stewart[1]	44	Eisenhower	Rep	Burton	8	Dem	1/17/1959	confirmed	70–17	5/5/1959	108
136	Byron White	44	Kennedy	Dem	Whittaker	6	Dem	4/3/1962	confirmed	voice	4/11/1962	8
137	Arthur Goldberg	54	Kennedy	Dem	Frankfurter	2	Dem	8/31/1962	confirmed	voice	9/25/1962	25
138	Abe Fortas	55	L. Johnson	Dem	Goldberg	2	Dem	7/28/1965	confirmed	voice	8/11/1965	14
139	Thurgood Marshall	58	L. Johnson	Dem	Clark	10	Dem	6/13/1967	confirmed	69–11	8/30/1967	78
140	Abe Fortas[2]	58	L. Johnson	Dem	Warren	CJ	Dem	6/26/1968	withdrawn		10/4/1968	100
141	Homer Thornberry	59	L. Johnson	Dem	Fortas	2	Dem	6/26/1968	no action			0
142	Warren E. Burger	61	Nixon	Rep	Warren	CJ	Dem	5/23/1969	confirmed	74–3	6/9/1969	17
143	Clement Haynsworth	56	Nixon	Rep	Fortas	2	Dem	8/21/1969	rejected	45–55	11/21/1969	92
144	G. Harrold Carswell	50	Nixon	Rep	Fortas	2	Dem	1/19/1970	rejected	45–51	4/8/1970	79
145	Harry Blackmun	61	Nixon	Rep	Fortas	2	Dem	4/15/1970	confirmed	94–0	5/12/1970	27
146	Lewis F. Powell, Jr.	63	Nixon	Rep	Black	1	Dem	10/22/1971	confirmed	89–1	12/6/1971	45
147	William Rehnquist	47	Nixon	Rep	Harlan	2	Dem	10/22/1971	confirmed	68–26	12/10/1971	49
148	John Paul Stevens	55	Ford	Rep	Douglas	4	Dem	11/28/1975	confirmed	98–0	12/17/1975	19
149	Sandra Day O'Connor	51	Reagan	Rep	Stewart	8	Rep	8/19/1981	confirmed	99–0	9/21/1981	33
150	William Rehnquist[2]	61	Reagan	Rep	Burger	CJ	Rep	6/20/1986	confirmed	65–33	9/17/1986	89
151	Antonin Scalia	50	Reagan	Rep	Rehnquist	9	Rep	6/24/1986	confirmed	98–0	9/17/1986	85
152	Robert Bork	60	Reagan	Rep	Powell	1	Dem	7/1/1987	rejected	42–58	10/23/1987	114
153	Anthony Kennedy	51	Reagan	Rep	Powell	1	Dem	11/30/1987	confirmed	97–0	2/3/1988	65
154	David Souter	50	G.H.W. Bush	Rep	Brennan	3	Dem	7/25/1990	confirmed	90–9	10/2/1990	69
155	Clarence Thomas	43	G.H.W. Bush	Rep	Marshall	7	Dem	7/8/1991	confirmed	52–48	10/15/1991	99
156	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	60	Clinton	Dem	White	6	Dem	6/14/1993	confirmed	96–3	8/3/1993	50
157	Stephen Breyer	55	Clinton	Dem	Blackmun	2	Dem	5/17/1994	confirmed	87–9	7/29/1994	73
158	John Roberts	50	G.W. Bush	Rep	O'Connor	8	Rep	7/29/2005	withdrawn		9/6/2005	39
159	John Roberts	50	G.W. Bush	Rep	Rehnquist	CJ	Rep	9/6/2005	confirmed	78–22	9/29/2005	23
160	Harriet Miers	60	G.W. Bush	Rep	O'Connor	8	Rep	10/7/2005	withdrawn		10/28/2005	21
161	Samuel Alito	55	G.W. Bush	Rep	O'Connor	8	Rep	11/10/2005	confirmed	58–42	1/31/2006	82
162	Sonia Sotomayor	54	Obama	Dem	Souter	3	Dem	6/1/2009	confirmed	68–31	8/6/2009	66
163	Elena Kagan	50	Obama	Dem	Stevens	4	Dem	5/10/2010	confirmed	63 –37[1]	8/5/2010	87
164	Merrick Garland	63	Obama	Dem	Scalia	9	Rep	3/16/2016	pending[2]

[Larry Lucido]

Man, that Washington guy just packed that court!

[Larry Lucido]

Never realized Nixon has so many appointments.