McConnell can kiss my ass.

The American people aren't going to have a voice ? News to me. I wasn't aware I lived in Nazi Germany. Thanks for enlightening me, Senator McConnell.

Yes, of course, we all know it's partisanship disguised as being "wise".

im sure you'd be saying the same thing if a liberal justice died in the final year of a Republican presidency.

Geesh they are all robots aren't they.
Does Frank Luntz just email this shit into their brains
to mindless drone about on the tv machine???

in the last Presidential election.

Not at all, except the number of kids...maybe.

shirk his Constitutional duties? Even if he wanted to -- and he surely does not -- he can't because it's his sworn duty to appoint judges... as in "he SHALL nominate". There's no wishy washy other option to avoid carrying out his Constitutional obligation.



Article Two of the United States Constitution places the power of appointing Justices with the President of the United States, stating:
"he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law...

It's going to be 4-4 until the Senate changes or the next R is elected.