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Originally Posted by Solecismic
Even though the intellectual analysis of Obama's action here - essentially a compromise between the idea that a final-year president shouldn't make important appointments
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Without intending any personal attacks or implications as to what you think on the matter, that idea is horseshit. The Constitution does not have carve-outs based on term timing, and there have been multiple "final year" SCOTUS nominations in the past - including President Reagan's final year. The idea that somehow NOW it's a bridge too far, promulgated by Republicans invested in the de-legitimizing of America's first black president...well there is no intellectual honesty there. It is pure, naked politics.
I guarantee if Clinton wins and brings the Senate with her, the GOP will trip over themselves to confirm a moderate in the lame duck session rather than risk a liberal - and that will fly directly in the face of their "the people should get a say" screeching rhetoric.