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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Maybe watch Advise and Consent? I don't care if he makes it or not. but FWIW I think it inevitable that Trump will get someone on.
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Indeed, completely inevitable. Even in the highly unlikely event that the Dems win control of the Senate and no nomination has gone through, he would be able to find a Roe-hostile, conservative nominee who would still be able to get enough Democratic votes to prevail with the 50 vote standard. The Dems aren't going to delay this process two years.
There were multiple ways to get this particular nomination done for the Rs, but Supreme Court confirmations are the sort of thing where whatever they do is going to have a bright light on it. The Rs have such a strong proclivity to try to solve their problems by jamming stuff through, burying them, or doing them in the dead of night that just may be capable of screwing this up. In which case we'll move on to the next one and see if they've learned anything.
