Partisan judicial appointments.

We should try to remember what’s supposed to happen under the Constitution. The President nominates people who are more or less acceptable to the nation, or at least to the Senate.  If the President nominated people the Senate felt were too partisan, Senate leaders would push back, and asks for someone more generally acceptable.  Supreme Court jurists aren’t supposed to be party apparatchiks, after all.

What chumps we were.  The ‘true patriot’ Republican party have made it very clear over the past couple of decades that there are only partisan appointments.  And once nominated, that affiliation remains inviolate.  In the current political zoo, an official Republican justice can only be replaced by another official Republican appointee.  The idea of Merrick Garland — someone almost impossibly moderate — left Republicans shrieking in phony pain.

The press does their usual false equivalence, implying that both parties do this.  No, they don’t.  Democrats approved Antonin Scalia, John Roberts, sexual abuser Clarence Thomas, and even Samuel Alito.

Republicans don’t stand up for the Constitution, they only support the Republican part.  Stop.
Full stop.