Seangoli wrote:Petrasylvania wrote:If only Scalia had the decency to not die during an election year...
Its also a complete load of horseshit. There is no such lomg standing tradition at all. Kenedy himself was appointed in 1988, which was an election year. Numerous justices in the past 100 uears or so were appointed during election years.
It is true that its rare for a Justice to be appointed during an election year, butnthats because its rare to appoint a justice ever. You might as well say that its a long standing tradtion to not appoint a Justice in your first year in office, because there have been about as many of these in the past 100 years as there have been election year appoints.
The Republicans are absolutely the ones who turned the Supreme Court process political woth their bullshit with Garland, and fabricatong some sort of nonsensical nonexistent "tradition" to explain it away is bull. They have zero right to claim the Democrats are tryong to politicoze the process, because that is exactly what they did and frankly they started it.
The Supreme Court has been politicized long before anyone in this Senate was even born... At worst we're looking at an escalation of such.