Protip for folks at the Lincoln Project: please stop claiming that things have never been done before if Abe Lincoln actually did them.pic.twitter.com/DEvTpFbxLE
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Protip for folks at the Lincoln Project: please stop claiming that things have never been done before if Abe Lincoln actually did them.pic.twitter.com/DEvTpFbxLE
There is a long history of Supreme Court nominations in a presidential election year; even in lame duck sessions. When the Senate is from the same party, they almost always get confirmed. When the Senate is from the other party, the seat almost always gets held open.
You are deliberately being DENSE This is the new rule they made up after previously saying a president could not nominate a Supreme Court justice in his last year in office / in an election year
wasn't John Marshall himself confirmed in Adams's lame-duck?
Yes. Both nominated & confirmed.
The "rule" that's being described here is "a party can do whatever it legally has the power to do." That's obviously true, but also there's no point in pretending it's a principled rule. They should just admit this and stop pretending.
It is partly power but also partly longstanding historical tradition & precedent.
Tom represents the hard left that was embedded in the GOP...thank God Trump exposed them
By the way the Nevertrumpers would have been nevercruzers
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