No, the history of how the Senate has acted on presidential-election-year SCOTUS nominations when the opposing party controls the Senate is not "invented," nor would it be contradicted by a 2020 nom. I've done the research: https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/03/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nominee-rejections-politics-has-lot-do-it/ … https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/it-doesnt-matter-garland-didnt-get-hearing/ … https://twitter.com/KevinMKruse/status/1143963821788344320 …
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This is untrue. McConnell was not always careful in every statement about the nature of the precedent, but he explained to Chris Wallace in March 2016 that this is precisely what he was citing: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/03/20/mitch_mcconnell_latest_precedent_for_garland_situation_is_from_1888_scotus_nomination_goes_to_next_president.html … https://twitter.com/competencedodge/status/1143973252290752512 …
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McConnell made the same point in 2018 https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/10/mcconnell-opens-up-possibility-senate-would-confirm-trump-scotus-nominee-in-election-yr-2020/ …pic.twitter.com/xxRwpu7zQ8
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From the Associated Press: https://www.apnews.com/a59d72789444461ba071d9df6c8255ed …pic.twitter.com/R0o9z5usQo
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Shifting the debate a bit, do you think Trump would would withhold making a nomination if the Democrats controlled the Senate? Would hypothetical Senate Minority Leader McConnell discourage a nomination?
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You've elected to use the word "norm" then produce a chart with an arbitrary cutoff criteria that nonetheless renders Garland an extreme case
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To you the central question is not whether the senate should ignore a SCOTUS nominee, it's whether you can jerryrig an tribe-flattering argument. That leaves you no grounds to complain about the other side mustering self-interested logic over the same institution
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Yeah that's wrong
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