It's a false equivalence to compare this to Scalia's replacement. They like to ignore that when Mitch McConnell said we should wait to select a new supreme court justice under Obama we were near the end of Obama's second term. There was going to be a "new" president either way when Obama's time was up.
Biden's OWN proposal put forth that Justices shouldn't be nominated when the President and Senate aren't politically aligned. Per his own beliefs, we'd need to nominate someone right now. (Seems like being a career politician has fucked him yet again.)
Then you have issues like if it's a contested election and we risk a 4-4 vote. (Which has happened fairly recently - Bush v. Gore - and can very likely happen again given how Michigan and Pennsylvania Democrats are actively trying to steal their votes with their bullshit counting rulings.)
You also have Ginsburg's own comments regarding Garland and her saying "The President is President for four years", meaning Trump still has the complete right - even in her own view - to nominate.
Trump and Obama's situations are also different as Obama was on his last term and without question we'd have a new president while Trump is only finishing his first term.
And, what I find especially most delicious of all of this, the Democrats have already decided that ceremony, mutual respect, and tradition went out the door LONG AGO when they politicized impeachment proceedings (because "orange man bad") trying to sway midterm elections. They have NEVER - not once - granted any form of respect or kindness to our side (from the very clearly partisan impeachment to the Kavanaugh debacle, both being utter lows for our nation). So fuck 'em. What goes around comes around. I want him to select a justice that will make Thomas look liberal and I want that justice on their for decades.
It's a false equivalence to compare this to Scalia's replacement. They like to ignore that when Mitch McConnell said we should wait to select a new supreme court justice under Obama we were near the end of Obama's second term. There was going to be a "new" president either way when Obama's time was up.
Exactly. It would be like a Democrat senate majority refusing to approve Trump's nominee. Which obviously they'd refuse regardless.
Biden's OWN proposal put forth that Justices shouldn't be nominated when the President and Senate aren't politically aligned. Per his own beliefs, we'd need to nominate someone right now. (Seems like being a career politician has fucked him yet again.)
Then you have issues like if it's a contested election and we risk a 4-4 vote. (Which has happened fairly recently - Bush v. Gore - and can very likely happen again given how Michigan and Pennsylvania Democrats are actively trying to steal their votes with their bullshit counting rulings.)
You also have Ginsburg's own comments regarding Garland and her saying "The President is President for four years", meaning Trump still has the complete right - even in her own view - to nominate.
Trump and Obama's situations are also different as Obama was on his last term and without question we'd have a new president while Trump is only finishing his first term.
And, what I find especially most delicious of all of this, the Democrats have already decided that ceremony, mutual respect, and tradition went out the door LONG AGO when they politicized impeachment proceedings (because "orange man bad") trying to sway midterm elections. They have NEVER - not once - granted any form of respect or kindness to our side (from the very clearly partisan impeachment to the Kavanaugh debacle, both being utter lows for our nation). So fuck 'em. What goes around comes around. I want him to select a justice that will make Thomas look liberal and I want that justice on their for decades.