Replies to post #353430 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[ForReal]

Bullshit, your post is ahistorical and fact-challenged.

You just don't get it do you son? 90% of politics is sanctimonious bullshit. That works for both Democrats and Republicans, when it suits their needs and desires. If it were Schumer and Hillary (or Biden, your choice), we would be hearing the same things from their mouths as that of Republicans, right now.

Remember how a few years back all Democrats were for a Border Wall, then from 2016 on, they opposed it?

How they were for the Crime Bill of 1994 and now are crying out loud for racial justice?

Get a grip son, it is all bullshit and platitudes from both sides. In this case, Republicans will do what they can to put another conservative Justice on the Court. Cry and moan all you want, it won't change things.

[ForReal]

Bullshit, your post is ahistorical and fact-challenged.


Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years

The historical record does not reveal any instances since at least 1900 of the president failing to nominate and/or the Senate failing to confirm a nominee in a presidential election year because of the impending election. In that period, there were several nominations and confirmations of Justices during presidential election years.

The first nomination during an election year in the twentieth century came on March 13, 1912, when President William Taft (a Republican) nominated Mahlon Pitney to succeed John Marshall Harlan, who died on October 14, 1911. The Republican-controlled Senate confirmed Pitney on March 18, 1912, by a vote of fifty to twenty-six.

President Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat) made two nominations during 1916. On January 28, 1916, Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to replace Joseph Rucker Lamar, who died on January 2, 1916; the Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed Brandeis on June 1, 1916, by a vote of forty-seven to twenty-two. Charles Evans Hughes resigned from the Court on June 10, 1916 to run (unsuccessfully) for president as a Republican. On July 14, 1916, Wilson nominated John Clarke to replace him; Clarke was confirmed unanimously ten days later.

On February 15, 1932, President Herbert Hoover (a Republican) nominated Benjamin Cardozo to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, who retired on January 12, 1932. A Republican-controlled Senate confirmed Cardozo by a unanimous voice vote on February 24, 1932.

On January 4, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt (a Democrat) nominated Frank Murphy to replace Pierce Butler, who died on November 16, 1939; Murphy was confirmed by a heavily Democratic Senate on January 16, 1940, by a voice vote.

On November 30, 1987, President Ronald Reagan (a Republican) nominated Justice Anthony Kennedy to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Lewis Powell. A Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed Kennedy (who followed Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg as nominees for that slot) on February 3, 1988, by a vote of ninety-seven to zero.

In two instances in the twentieth century, presidents were not able to nominate and confirm a successor during an election year. But neither reflects a practice of leaving a seat open on the Supreme Court until after the election.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/supreme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-election-years/