Democrats need to respond to Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney and Cory Gardner et al. trying to fill a Supreme Court vacancy that occurred after voting started by trying to stop them or, at least, making the process as difficult and costly as possible.
And, no, Democrats should not meet with the nominee until and unless McConnell lays out a reasonable timeline for this process — one that makes a floor vote contingent on Trump’s re-election and thus would not end until late Nov or early Dec.
If they want a sham process, it’s a sham process. If they want an actual nomination process, hold an actual nomination process. It’s their decision.
There honestly is no reason why hearings even should be held before the election. Any plan that would aim to reach a *floor vote* before Election Day, as @seungminkim’s article says is being floated, is not a plan that resembles any legitimate consideration of a SCOTUS nominee.
And if that’s where Mitch is starting from, and there’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t, Dems need to go to their corner and respond in kind.
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