They're thinking of Ginsburg, but of course they'll fill any seat that opens up.
Biden and the Democrats won't do what's needed - pack the court - to defend the heritage of liberalism in the law, if and when they get a chance.
'We're going to fill it': Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s hospitalization this week and the looming end of the Supreme Court’s term raise the prospect of yet another prized vacancy for President Donald Trump.
And if there is a surprise opening or retirement in the months before the presidential election, GOP senators plan to act on it, despite denying President Barack Obama a Supreme Court seat in an election year.
The GOP denied O nomination of Garland in an election year, yes, but not - or anyway not only - because it was an election year.
Their "justification" was even more absurd than that.
They said he was a lame duck meaning only that he was not eligible to serve after the end of his current term, as every president is throughout his second term and Trump will soon be, if he wins this fall.
[But see these about the Biden Rule and the Thurmond Rule, both adverted to during the struggle over Garland and both bullshit, anyway.]
They won't hold it against Trump, if they're still in control of the senate.
Nor will the Democrats embrace such nonsense.
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