Thread by @HeidiNBC

👉No president has seated a Supreme Court nominee within three months of a presidential election, according to Senate historical records dating to 1900.

A final vote would be days before the election.

https://twitter.com/AymanM/status/1315698643970727939

The closest comparison to the current landscape would be President Woodrow Wilson’s successful confirmation of John Clarke in *July of 1916*

nbcnews.com/politics/meet-…

During the tumultuous election year of 1968, Johnson did attempt to replace retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren by elevating Associate Justice Abe Fortas to be chief justice and naming Homer Thornberry, an appeals court judge, to the high court.

After a filibuster

over ethical questions, however, Johnson withdrew and declined to nominate a new justice, saying then that, “in ordinary times I would feel it my duty now to send another name to the Senate for this high office. I shall not do so." He added that "these are not ordinary times.

We are threatened by an emotionalism, partisanship, and prejudice that compel us to use great care if we are to avoid injury to our constitutional system.”