Quote:Meaning that the senate kept rejecting people until thet got someone who lined up with their ideology? Must have been a bunch of rascawy republicans.

 

Sort of.  Bork, as noted, was a Watergate figure.  Ginsburg smoked weed, which made his own party nervous. 

 

The eventual nominee became the court's swing vote the last few years.  In any event, at least the nominees got their vote.  McConnell is trying to deny the process, and that's where I think he's not doing his Constitutional duty.

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