It's just playing games. I think the sitting president should be able to appoint someone, no matter how much time remains in his/her term. Arnie nominated California's chief justice in his last day as governor. Confirmation vote is another story. But everyone agrees that Garland is qualified for the job.
Agreed. Citizens should make it clear that whichever party controls the Senate, that they MUST consider a Supreme Court nomination of a sitting president. They can reject the nominee, sure, but the idea that because it's an election year and the President and Senate are under the control of different parties, that that somehow means that no nominee will be considered? That's just lunacy, and is in no way supported by the Constitution. And let's be clear, the party arguments are now 180o from what they were in 1992, when Biden made his silly comments.
Slightly different when he said this barely 4 months before the election, vs. Scalia dying about a year before the end of his term. also, Biden said Bush should otherwise compromise with the senate over a nominee if he named one.
