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Originally Posted by Bucco
"Senate Republicans have promised to try to fill the vacancy even in the waning days of his first term. The confirmation battle, in the middle of a pandemic and a presidential election, is sure to be titanic."
"In 2016, Senate Republicans refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland, saying that holding hearings in the last year of a president’s term would deprive voters of a role in the process."
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"With the election less than two month away, McConnell said the Senate would act to fill the vacancy, even though he spent most of 2016 denying a confirmation hearing to President Barack Obama’s pick to fill a vacancy on the high court."
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Remember, McConnell has always said that when you have a President of one party and the Senate controlled by the other party then the voters should participate in that decision. However, if the President and the Senate are of the same party then the voters have already made that decision. Regarding RGB I admired her and her tenacity but lost some respect for her when she let her political bias show through which a Supreme Court Justice should never do. Great Justices will many times write opinions contrary to their personal biases as they understand their job is to interpret the law and constitution as written and not make the law. The late great Antonin Scalia use to say that it is the job of a justice to interpret the law but when seven unelected justices start making the law then it is not much of a democracy.