GOP senators anticipate that in a second term, Trump would have at least one Supreme Court vacancy to fill. Democrats hope that prospect motivates their voters this fall.
  • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Let us never forget that there was a chance for a Democrat to appoint a Supreme Court judge back in 2016. In fact, there was nearly a year we had only 8 justices - from February 2016 when Scalia passed away, all the way until Trump took the White House in 2017.

    This only happened because Senate Republicans prevented Obama from appointing a new judge. Senate Republicans purposely kept the position vacant until Trump, predictably, filled that vacancy with a Republican pick.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 month ago

      Yeah, and while a new COVID funding bull was stalling in and that shitty turtle sent everyone home purposely ignoring it…RBG died and suddenly he forced emergency sessions and votes just so another they could get another piece of shit in the scouts before the election. The bill was left untouched.