"Do they not have the power to fill vacancies in the Supreme Court just because they're lame ducks?"
They have no standards, so they can do anything they want. Why don't you start making situational standards by hiding one inside another? When you need two, just press a button and the second one comes sliding out.
Feb. 16, 2016: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, write an opinion piece in the Washington Post, saying the nation has a "unique opportunity" to make an impact on the court by filling it along with the timeline of voting for a new president, "as they decide who they trust to both lead the country and nominate the next Supreme Court justice."
"(Democrats would) rather the Senate simply push through yet another lifetime appointment by a president on his way out the door," they write.
"Given that we are in the midst of the presidential election process, we believe that the American people should seize the opportunity to weigh in on whom they trust to nominate the next person for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court," they conclude. "It is today the American people, rather than a lame-duck president whose priorities and policies they just rejected in the most-recent national election, who should be afforded the opportunity to replace Justice Scalia."
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