The Supreme Court doesn't have any vacancies, but Republicans are keeping a close eye on Justices Alito and Thomas for potential retirements in Trump's second term.
In before “[liberal judge X] should have retired so Biden could have nominated their replacement”. You all know damn well it would have gotten held up in the Senate because “election year”. Yes, Schumer wouldn’t have blocked it like McConnell and VP Harris could have broken the tie since a simple majority is all that’s needed to confirm, but there was absolutely no guarantee Manchin and/or Sinema would have played ball.
as critical as i usually am of the democrat’s strategy of doing nothing, i think it was the right call here. if the appointment of a new justice did get blocked (which it very likely would have), then that would translate to yet another justice being appointed by trump. and that’s simply too big a risk to take
In before “[liberal judge X] should have retired so Biden could have nominated their replacement”. You all know damn well it would have gotten held up in the Senate because “election year”. Yes, Schumer wouldn’t have blocked it like McConnell and VP Harris could have broken the tie since a simple majority is all that’s needed to confirm, but there was absolutely no guarantee Manchin and/or Sinema would have played ball.
Yeah so why bother at all, right?
Your opponent doesn’t have to do anything if you don’t even try.
as critical as i usually am of the democrat’s strategy of doing nothing, i think it was the right call here. if the appointment of a new justice did get blocked (which it very likely would have), then that would translate to yet another justice being appointed by trump. and that’s simply too big a risk to take