Both Sides Don't Make Up Rules For SCOTUS Nominations
Both Sides Don't Make Up Rules For SCOTUS Nominations
What if... we followed Republicans' rules for appointing Supreme Court justices?
By Christopher Reeves January 31, 2022
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Republicans do not care and do not pay a price
Mitch McConnell can say whatever he wants about the filibuster, about the Supreme Court, about legislationand then immediately throw it away as soon as he sees the need to do so. The Republican base will never, at any point, call him out for his hypocrisy. They wont do it, because they believe at their core that this is the cost that must be paid in order to bring their ideas forward. If that requires subverting the process, they are more than willing to do it. So be it.
On the Democratic side, we have a tendency to wring our hands and talk about process and procedure, or fear our own base will have problems with our decisions. Without mountains of data, I will say I firmly believe that the impact of a slow supreme court hearing process will not in any way help the Democratic cause. It only gives Democratic candidates a case to make that President Biden continues to work on fulfilling his promises to place a well-respected woman on the court, to work on the infrastructure plan which was passed, to highlight that #DemocratsDeliver, a hashtag used by many candidates this year.
Part of what that delivery has to include is the nomination and placement of a Supreme Court justice.
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