1. Despite some loose talk from a few folks down the stretch in 2016, Republicans have no basis in historical precedent to just blockade a Supreme Court seat for an entire presidential term, & there was never gonna be a united caucus for that position.https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1144323087321772033 …
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2. We have, however, seen an almost complete evaporation in both parties of the norm that presidents should get SCOTUS nominees confirmed by Senators who disagree with those nominees' philosophy, absent some other justification.
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3. What that means the first time a president & Senate of different parties face off again outside a presidential election year, nobody knows. But probably a replay of Bork/Ginsburg or Haynesworth/Carswell, where the 1st few choices are shot down.
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Would you say Bork was the beginning of the normalized character assassination now heaped on candidates?
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