Could Chuck Shumer go to Mitch McConnel and say:
If you break your own rule and try to rush a justice through now we Democrats will if we win both the presidency and the senate do the following:
Do away with the filibuster.
Increase the size of the SC to 13 justices, and add 4 more liberal justice, giving us a 7-6 majority.
Admit DC as a state and Puerto Rico as a state giving Dems a possible increase in senators.
If mitch is truly afraid of losing his majority, maybe Shumer would have some leverage and could convince him to hold off on nominating anyone now by threatening to shove through all kinds of things mitch would hate should Dems regain the senate and the White House.
Chuck could promise not to do these things if mitch would hold off on nominating anyone. I was just thinking maybe Democrats would have some leverage if mitch is in real fear of losing his majority.