PPEcel
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View: https://www.reddit.com/r/IncelTear/comments/ivn32u/failure_to_comprehend_trump_isnt_electing_anybody/
The last Supreme Court justice to get confirmed was NOT Neil Gorsuch in Apr 2017, it was Brett Kavanaugh in Oct 2018.
Antonin Scalia's seat was left open for over a year just because Senate Republicans refused to even hold confirmation hearings for Merrick Garland, and after the election nominated Gorsuch instead. It is NOT normal for a SCOTUS seat to be vacant for over a year. After Anthony Kennedy retired, Kavanaugh's nomination took just three months, and that was with the whole media circus surrounding the allegations of sexual assault at Georgetown Prep. The nominations of Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Alito didn't take more than 3-4 months either.
So...no, Sen. McConnell will not wait until after the New Year to confirm Trump's nominee. And there's a good chance he will succeed.
Of course, it's not an inevitability that Trump and McConnell will prevail. Four GOP Senators will have to defect if McConnell is to fail -- and I think Senators Collins, Murkowski, and Romney might do so. And the winner of the Senate race in Arizona will take office this November 30th instead of on January 3rd next year, because it's a special election, and incumbent Martha McSally is trailing in the polls to the Democratic nominee, Mark Kelly. So I expect Senators Schumer, Durbin, and Feinstein's playbook (the latter is the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee) to be to delay Trump's nomination for as long as possible.
Jesus Christ, you'd think that these know-it-all Redditcucks would have a better memory. Oh, and by the way, Garland was nominated by Obama in Mar 2016, not Feb 2016.