This is the solution. If McConnell breaks his own rule to pack the court, then Dems have to promise to do the same.
Okay, here's what the plan has to be.
They won't confirm someone pre-election, there's no time. And there's a math problem: Grassley said he wouldn't do a nominee in 2020, Kelly takes office immediately if he wins, Murkowski seems reluctant too.
Dems HAVE to immediately promise that any movement on a nominee this presidential term will be treated as a declaration of war and will guarantee court-packing as reprisal. That means, post-election, if Dems retake the Senate (and Biden wins), the GOP has a dilemma.
It can confirm the nominee but guarantee immediate changes to the court from Dems, who will have the votes to do it. Or they can simply let Biden nominate someone, effectively filling the seat that Kavanaugh stole and deescalating.
But Dems have to be SERIOUS, IMMEDIATELY, about holding McConnell to his rule. None of this "We all know he won't do it" business, which is self-fulfilling. They need to INSIST, on penalty of reprisal, that he follow it.
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