Certainly the new Senator from Alabama should get his seat.
But consider this.
Two Republican senators are in hospital.
What if the Republicans replaced one or both without seating Doug Jones?
That would be seriously messed up.
I guess nothing surprises me anymore after they refused to seat Obama’s Supreme Court judge. But this I think would be an illegal takeover of government. Would people be marching in the streets? Probably they should be, in that case.