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<blockquote data-quote="bacha29" data-source="post: 4619788" data-attributes="member: 58386">The Republicans were perfectly happy for SCOTUS to begin it&#039;s term following Scalia&#039;s death with an 8 person bench. If it was perfectly ok then...what&#039;s wrong with it now?As leader of the Senate McConnell went on the Senate floor and refused to give Garland a hearing stating the American people deserved to have a say in who their SCOTUS judges will be. What&#039;s different this time? Are Republicans the ONLY Americans?In addition Graham in Senate committee plainly stated that there should be no SCOTUS appointments in a presidential election year . Isn&#039;t this current vacancy what he was talking about? So they&#039;ve got two choices? Either stand on the principles and precedents they themselves created&nbsp; and postpone the nomination and confirmation until after the election and if they are confident that Trump and the Senate GOP majority will be retained this should be no problem and will serve to cement their political legacy&#039;s aided at least in part by the example of fair political play they would have set.The opportunity to set themselves apart, to hold themselves to a higher standard, a standard they are constantly accusing the Dems of not holding themselves to stands right there before them.The other is to stand guilty of their own hypocrisy , have to eat their own words, make complete fools of themselves and quickly push through another nomination. Why would anyone&nbsp; want do this if the election is in the bag for them? Could their actions be driven by growing doubts about their chances for retention?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bacha29, post: 4619788, member: 58386"] The Republicans were perfectly happy for SCOTUS to begin it's term following Scalia's death with an 8 person bench. If it was perfectly ok then...what's wrong with it now? As leader of the Senate McConnell went on the Senate floor and refused to give Garland a hearing stating the American people deserved to have a say in who their SCOTUS judges will be. What's different this time? Are Republicans the ONLY Americans? In addition Graham in Senate committee plainly stated that there should be no SCOTUS appointments in a presidential election year . Isn't this current vacancy what he was talking about? So they've got two choices? Either stand on the principles and precedents they themselves created and postpone the nomination and confirmation until after the election and if they are confident that Trump and the Senate GOP majority will be retained this should be no problem and will serve to cement their political legacy's aided at least in part by the example of fair political play they would have set. The opportunity to set themselves apart, to hold themselves to a higher standard, a standard they are constantly accusing the Dems of not holding themselves to stands right there before them. The other is to stand guilty of their own hypocrisy , have to eat their own words, make complete fools of themselves and quickly push through another nomination. Why would anyone want do this if the election is in the bag for them? Could their actions be driven by growing doubts about their chances for retention? [/QUOTE]

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