Why filling a Supreme Court vacancy in an election year is so complicated
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Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised to bring Trumpâs nominee to a voteâeven though just four years prior he had blocked President Barack Obamaâs nomination of Merrick Garland on the grounds that it was an election year.According to the New York Times, this Supreme Court vacancy is the second-closest to an election everâthe only one that occurred closer was when Chief Justice Roger B. According to a Congressional Research Service report, from that point on only six Supreme Court nominees have not been referred to the committeeâa former president, a senator, and other easily confirmable candidates.The first public Judiciary Committee hearing for a Supreme Court nominee was for Louis Brandeis, a prominent lawyer from Boston. In 2017, the Republican-led Senate revised its rules once more requiring just a majority vote to end debate on Trumpâs first Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch's nomination made it through the Senate Judiciary Committee in 65 daysâ77 days after President Trump took office in January 2017.When the debate ends, the Senate requires just a simple majorityâor 51 votesâto confirm a judicial nominee. But in March 2016, following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the Republican-controlled Senate refused to consider Obamaâs nomination of Merrick Garland to the courtâor even grant him a hearingâarguing that the Senate hadnât confirmed an election year nominee since 1932.
As said here by Amy McKeever