The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
I hope RoyGBiv is rolling in her grave at refusing to step down and let Obama select a replacement when she knew the power of her position.
Why do you think they would’ve filled her spot when they didn’t fill the other one with Merrick Garland? She protected her spot or they would’ve held it up until Trump.
She could have retired at any time, including right after Obama was elected. The Republicans couldn’t have held the spot open for years. It would have become a major election issue.
I’d bet good money McConnell would have tried to find a way/reason to keep it open, look at all the rules making/breaking they did to fill/keep a seat empty close to elections, I’m sure they’d just come up with some other bullshit
Yeah, but would it have been one that anyone cared about? No one seems to mind that they held Gorsuch’s seat for a year and then appointed ACB. At this point I have zero faith in the electorate having any understanding of government; holding 2 seats for years would have just been spun as “now we REALLY need to win or we lose these 2 seats.”