There is no need to argue for the US Senate to provide “Advice and Consent” for presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. It’s right there in the U.S. Constitution: Article II, Section 2, Clause 2.
The crass partisanship of majority Republicans in the U.S. Senate in refusing such consent is grossly insulting to citizens of the United States, not only in terms of the lame arguments posed by our illustrious Senate majority leader, for example, but also in terms of the continued affront to a constitutional democracy that Republicans violate. Republicans’ professed reverence for the Constitution especially highlights their hypocrisy.
However, the blame game cannot…