Absolutely. There's no law or rule against rushing a nominee through fewer than 2 months from the election. It's just comical that in 2016, when Scalia died in February, Republicans said that was too close to the election to consider a nominee and here we are doing it in September - with some Republicans saying we should skip the hearing altogether and just vote it on the Senate floor.
Yes, I knew this. I also know it is gross hypocrisy to say 9 months before 2016 election that we should let voters have a say before changing the right-left balance of the Supreme Court but 6 weeks before the 2020 election that voters shouldn't have a say before changing the right-left balance of the Supreme Court. I won't vote for such gross hypocrites.
Because congress doesn't like making laws against themselves. No politicians does. If they made a law, they would be limiting themselves. Even the laws against them that there are is what they have been breaking openly.
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Absolutely. There's no law or rule against rushing a nominee through fewer than 2 months from the election. It's just comical that in 2016, when Scalia died in February, Republicans said that was too close to the election to consider a nominee and here we are doing it in September - with some Republicans saying we should skip the hearing altogether and just vote it on the Senate floor.
Yes, I knew this. I also know it is gross hypocrisy to say 9 months before 2016 election that we should let voters have a say before changing the right-left balance of the Supreme Court but 6 weeks before the 2020 election that voters shouldn't have a say before changing the right-left balance of the Supreme Court. I won't vote for such gross hypocrites.
Because congress doesn't like making laws against themselves. No politicians does. If they made a law, they would be limiting themselves. Even the laws against them that there are is what they have been breaking openly.