Sure. I’ll stick with the period I know. When Harrison nominated Howell Jackson, he picked a Dem that would have to meet muster with the Dem Senate. Without opposite Party consent, he would have not been successful. N.b. Harrison was part of the dominant coalition of the era.https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1285989271283748864 …
Also, bear in mind that Jackson was Harrison's *second* nomination of 1892-93. Shiras was not a Democrat.
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I think the objection is fundamentally that it is anti-majoritarian to use the appointment power in a 1.5 month span to confirm a nominee directly at odds with an election results. The Jackson nod doesn’t really fit that. Harder question of what to do between November and March.
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The Senate is within its rights - as a matter of rules & power - in doing whatever a majority wants. Historically, power is constrained by norms. Here, the historical norm when the branches are opposed is to run out the last year, but when they are united, it is not.
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