Thread by @DavidLat

1/ Given recent precedent (noted by @katieleebarlow), there's no reason that a successor to Justice Breyer on #SCOTUS can't be confirmed in short order—and definitely before midterms.

https://twitter.com/katieleebarlow/status/1486402552648318980

2/ Of course, it's huge—and hugely important—that President Biden is getting a #SCOTUS pick. But note that it will slow down the confirmations of his pending picks for lower courts, plus new nominees.

(Totally worth it, of course, but I'm just noting this.)

3/ I don't think there is anything that Senator Mitch McConnell, who is no longer Majority Leader, can do to stop a #SCOTUS confirmation.

https://twitter.com/noahjacobmama/status/1486403123149115392

4/ I doubt @LeaderMcConnell could deny the Senate a quorum (as the Texas Democrats tried to do). A quorum is 51 senators, and I don't think Senator McConnell could get every single Republican senator to refuse to show up to consider a #SCOTUS nom.

5/ It looks like @SenSchumer won't be wasting any time on getting the Senate to consider a #SCOTUS nominee, as soon as we have one.👇

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1486398561142984707

6/ When Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in June 2021, she received “yay” votes from Senators Collins, Murkowski, Manchin, and Sinema, en route to a 53-44 confirmation.

bit.ly/3KMbCSH #scotus

7/ Yes, you can argue that “#SCOTUS is different.” But the D.C. Circuit, a well-known springboard to the Supreme Court, ain’t chopped liver—and any senator who voted for Judge Jackson did so with the knowledge that she was a high-court contender.