Watch: In The Words Of Biden And All 2016 Democrats “We Must Fill This Seat”

In the words of Speaker Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Former VP Candidate Tim Kaine, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer, we must fill this seat.

The Constitution is pretty clear about the rules. The President alone has the authority to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. The United States Senate alone has the power to confirm that nomination to the Supreme Court.

The Democrats wanted Republicans to confirm a liberal judge to the SCOTUS on a lame-duck election year. Obama fulfilled his duty by putting in his nomination. There is a clear precedent showing that opposing parties hardly ever confirm a Supreme Court Justice.

From the National Review:

“Twenty-nine times in American history there has been an open Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year, or in a lame-duck session before the next presidential inauguration. (This counts vacancies created by new seats on the Court, but not vacancies for which there was a nomination already pending when the year began, such as happened in 1835–36 and 1987–88.) The president made a nomination in all twenty-nine cases. George Washington did it three times. John Adams did it. Thomas Jefferson did it. Abraham Lincoln did it. Ulysses S. Grant did it. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. Barack Obama, of course, did it. Twenty-two of the 44 men to hold the office faced this situation, and all twenty-two made the decision to send up a nomination, whether or not they had the votes in the Senate.”

Obama was a Democrat president who was trying to push through a nomination of a Democrat onto the Supreme Court.

Trump, on the other hand, is a Republican president where members of his same party hold the majority in the Senate. The precedent is clear. Trump has a constitutional obligation to fill this seat.

The Democrats agree too; watch and please follow me on Twitter: @marmee_r and Parler: @marmee

Whichever RNC staffer did this deserves a promotion 👇

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— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) September 21, 2020

Twenty-nine times there has been a vacancy in a presidential election year. Presidents have made nominations all 29 times. That's what presidents do. If there's a vacancy, they make a nomination. #SCOTUS https://t.co/r1qlMURX11

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) September 21, 2020