This is the plainest and most sensible treatment I've seen of the issue whether the President should nominate, and the Senate leadership should immediately try to confirm, a replacement for the Supreme Court seat vacted by Justice Ginsberg's death.
I think this is just about right. I am old enough to remember when it went from average political to deeply political with Justice Bork. The Republicans held out a few more nominations following the older, more amiable method that had prevailed until then, but I think it was 1994 they started being political right back, and that has been the norm since then. I like the simplicity of the article. There isn't any worrying about whether someone is trying to bring arcane parliamentary strategies into play. There are 50 votes or there aren't.
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I think this is just about right. I am old enough to remember when it went from average political to deeply political with Justice Bork. The Republicans held out a few more nominations following the older, more amiable method that had prevailed until then, but I think it was 1994 they started being political right back, and that has been the norm since then. I like the simplicity of the article. There isn't any worrying about whether someone is trying to bring arcane parliamentary strategies into play. There are 50 votes or there aren't.
Andy McCarthy says the same
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/replacing-justice-ginsburg-politics-not-precedent/
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