In principle, sure, that is what happened and Constitutionally all permissible. Even more so, the GOP faced an election in 2016 after blocking Garland and still held on to the Senate after this action.
I don't disagree with the principle, per se, of not giving the sitting President his choice of juror. However, I did disagree with the method. I thought if they wanted to block Garland, then they should've had an actual vote on the matter and make it official. Wouldn't have taken a lot to do that and I don't think it would've changed anything other than bringing the process out into the open. By not even bringing it to a vote it just made it a shadier process.
The question will be what happens in the future and how far out from a Presidential election will a party be willing to block a nomination to the SCOTUS? What if the Dems didn't control the Senate right now - would the GOP have blocked any nominations from Biden as long as they controlled the Senate? Would the Dems do the same thing and deny a sitting GOP President a nomination to the court, even if it's for a full Presidential 4 year term? Or heck, even 8 years? A SCOTUS sitting with 8 jurors (or less), for potentially years, because of political deadlock will be quite a new development, but actually in line with current political rancor.
When the donks are playing no hold barred politics, then the conks should do the same. You play to win.
That's something the "morale high road" people fail to recognize as they take L after L.
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
Meh. That doesn't look like Nazi salutes to me. That looks like people acknowledging their Tribal Chief....
SuperHornet's Athletics Hall of Fame includes Jacksonville State kicker Ashley Martin, the first girl to score in a Division I football game. She kicked 3 PATs in a 2001 game for J-State.
According to Kamala Harris, America's southern border is totally secure! Whew--that's great news! But upon further investigation, we found 23 things that are currently more secure than the southern border.
1. Your grandma's computer password
2. Trump's safe in Mar-A-Lago
3. Epstein's prison cell
4. Thermal exhaust ports on the death star
5. An unlocked car in Chicago
6.Your daughter's hair around Joe Biden
7. Bed, Bath & Beyond Stock
8. Trusting in works for salvation
9. Rings of Power Season 2
10. The mattress on the car roof that the driver is holding with his left hand
11. Ashley Biden's diary
12. The word of a Spaniard
13. Hunter's laptop
14. Elections in Philadelphia
15. Ben and J-Lo's marriage
16. German gas prices
17. California's electric grid
18. Your lunch in the break room fridge
19. A cheeseburger in front of your mom
20. A pile of crack in front of Hunter Biden
21. Big tech's handling of your data
22. Your 401k
23. Pretty much every other border everywhere else in the world
That's something the "morale high road" people fail to recognize as they take L after L.
