“Lame duck had nothing to do with it.”
What is the Joe Biden Rule? Who cited it?
That's something Biden made up and McConnell cited it as an excuse. He didn't give Garland a hearing because he didn't want Obama to fill it. If you think for one moment that if McConnell is Senate Majority Leader in August of 2024 and Trump has a chance to fill a Supreme Court that McConnell won't ram it through just as fast as he can then you're naïve.