A little truth goes along way. Unless yer a wing nut, then truth is fluid, kinda like diarrhea

[Augiedog]

http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/supreme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-election-years/

[Mike__M]

1. Wow: your headline is the best description

of Conservative thought I've ever read.

[lastlib]

2. The facts:

In the wake of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, questions have arisen about whether there is a standard practice of not nominating and confirming Supreme Court Justices during a presidential election year. The historical record does not reveal any instances since at least 1900 of the president failing to nominate and/or the Senate failing to confirm a nominee in a presidential election year because of the impending election. In that period, there were several nominations and confirmations of Justices during presidential election years.

But then, none of those presidents were black, and none of those senators were truth-challenged assholes on the scale of Eduardo Rafael Cruz.

[hfojvt]

3. unless you count 1968

but who is counting?

[lastlib]

4. Fortas withdrew his name from nomination...

(yes, in the face of a (bi-partisan filibuster......)

The Senate didn't actually fail to confirm him. I know it's a technicality, we just have to live with it....

[hfojvt]

5. no the fact is they failed to confirm him

as in - they did not confirm him.

[lastlib]

6. The Senate never *voted* on his nomination. He withdrew his name.....

...after a cloture vote came up short 47-43 (a two-thirds majority was required at that time to invoke cloture).