Supreme Battle

“I know there is an argument that no nominee should be voted on in the last year of a presidency. But there is nothing in the Constitution — or our history — to support this view.”  So argued former Vice President Joe Biden back in 2016 on the pages of the New York Times on the propriety of filling a vacant Supreme Court seat during an election year.  Later in 2016, in speech to Georgetown Law School, the Democrat declared, “I would go forward with a confirmation… even a few months before a presidential election.”
Now, with the gavel in Republican hands following the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Biden and the Democra ...