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Earlier this morning I was listening to Pete Williams on MSNBC saying there’s basically precedent on both sides for what the Republicans are now trying to do: block the President from making a Supreme Court nomination at the beginning of the last year of his term, and that the GOP has plenty of precedent on its side. That is frankly an astonishing claim, with virtually no history to support it. It is also a sobering example of how successful Republicans are usually and are now at working the mainstream media to normalize what are in fact unprecedented actions.

Astonishing

It is also a sobering example of how successful Republicans are
usually and are now at working the mainstream media to normalize what
are in fact unprecedented actions.

Do your fucking job, media.

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If you actually want to know historical precedents, read Amy Howe’s excellent post Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years at Scotusblog.com.

Hint: None of them set the precedent Pete Williams and Republicans now claim exist.

Look, if I was on a hiring committee for a job that needed doing and I swore to block every candidate before even knowing who they are, people would be totally justified in saying that I was failing to do my job. That’s exactly what this is: intentional refusal to do the job they’re paid to do for political gain.

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