fun fact: political parties aren't mentioned in the Constitution
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism." - George Washington, 1796
senators saying this Court nomination has nothing to do w/politics are just lying. 51 GOP senators said they would support the nominee before they knew who the nominee was (2 said they wouldn't support pre-election), and almost all 47 Dem/aligned senators said they'd oppose
not like this is new, though - the Supreme Court was long a political institution. Then, through part of the 20th Century, it was treated as apolitical. What changed in the last 30 or so years is that it became a *partisan* institution too.
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