It's Friday, October 28, and Day 257 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell decided no nominee would get any Senate attention: No meetings, no hearings, no votes. It's also Day 226 since Merrick Garland was nominated by President Obama to fill that vacancy.
The added twist to this regular report is the increasing drumbeat from Republicans that they're itching for a constitutional crisis and a major fight with a future President Clinton by saying they'll refuse to confirm any of her Supreme Court nominees. They've even got a cooked up legal theory behind them.
It should be noted that it's not all Republicans, just most. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), for one, can see what's coming for the Republican party and is scrambling mightily to avoid going down with the ship. Good luck to him, because his captain is AWOL.
A spokesman for McConnell pointed to comments made a month ago, when the GOP leader declined to speculate on how a Supreme Court nomination might be handled if Clinton wins.
That's some leadership, there, Mitch. One can only assume that from his past behavior, up to and including this unprecedented refusal to do his constitutional duty in working with the sitting president, that he'd be just fine with blowing it all up once and for all. If he gets to keep his job.
Don't let him keep his job.
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