She's been dead, or heavily incapacitated for a while. But now that we're 11.5 months before an election they can announce it to try to prevent a SCOTUS pick.
Time traveler: they'll also try to prevent an appointment because "muh president is undergoing in peaches"
In r/politics the shills are saying the rule applies to the calendar year of the election, not within 365 days of the election. So RBG can pass within the next 5 weeks and the can howl inefectually all they want, but the rule will even be satisfied - if nomination goes out by 12/31/2019. An 11pm nomination on 12/31 would be magnificent
She's been dead, or heavily incapacitated for a while. But now that we're 11.5 months before an election they can announce it to try to prevent a SCOTUS pick.
Time traveler: they'll also try to prevent an appointment because "muh president is undergoing in peaches"
In r/politics the shills are saying the rule applies to the calendar year of the election, not within 365 days of the election. So RBG can pass within the next 5 weeks and the can howl inefectually all they want, but the rule will even be satisfied - if nomination goes out by 12/31/2019. An 11pm nomination on 12/31 would be magnificent