But what about the will of the people?
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...say-trump-should-not-nominate-a-supreme-court
A new poll conducted shortly before the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed that an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults of all political stripes supported holding hearings for a nominee if a vacancy opened on the nation's highest bench.
Marquette University released the survey results on Saturday that showed 67% of adults believed the Senate should hold a hearing if a vacancy occurred during 2020's race, with only 32% opposition — and similar strong numbers across Republicans, Democrats, and independents, who supported holding confirmation hearings at 68-31%, 63-37%, and 71-28% respectively. The poll was completed three days before the death of Ginsburg, the 87-year-old liberal icon who was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed in 1993. Ginsburg earned praise from Democrats and Republicans upon news of her death.
Did you just write that?!
You need to run down to CVS and buy a mirror my friend.
This is pure ET comedic gold.
Obama tried to slam through Garland but lost because he didn't control the senate. The "McConnell Rule" is actually the Biden Rule and dates back to 1992.
But that didn't matter in 2016 when every democrat was happy to ignore what they said decades earlier to slam through Garland before Obama became a total lame duck.
It's pretty funny watching the left try to spin this to be an RNC problem. If you go back far enough you see that Harry Reid used the nuclear option to stop the 60 vote rule on executive and judiciary nominations, an entirely harebrained partisan move, and McConnell being a brilliant tactician saw this move and extended the nuclear option to supreme court candidates. Tit for tat. Congratulations on making it worse for yourself Dems.
The democrats started this. The Republicans are simply playing the game by the rules they wrote. It's hilarious watching them double over realizing they made a huge mistake changing the rules of the game before. The will of the people never mattered to the Democrats during Obama's time. But now suddenly it matters? hahahahahahahahahahaha *breathe* hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah
MSDNC? lmao
Any attempt to pack the courts by Democrats will be challenged legally and ultimately end up before the SCOTUS. Good luck with that if conservatives hold a 6-3 majority.
Go for it, Democrats will pack the courts next year, piss off Democrats by replacing a liberal icon with a inbred Con and you will think 2008 was a landslide for Bush.