When Ruth Bader Ginsburg died in September, Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer warned that “nothing is off the table” if Republicans filled her seat before Inauguration Day. Thus, when Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in little more than a month later, the drumbeats resumed for court packing: adding seats to “rebalance” the court. Although presidents had always made nominations to Supreme Court vacancies arising in election years, and their success hinged almost entirely on whether their party controlled the Senate, there had never been a confirmation so close to an election. And this one came four years after Republicans had declined to take up Merrick Garland’s nomination to the opening left by Antonin Scalia’s death, allowing President Donald Trump to appoint Neil Gorsuch.
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A lot of stupid things are said about history.
For example, there is no “right side” of history, if by that you mean events are destined to play out in some sort of preordained way.
But there is such a thing as being on the stupid side of history and there’s a mad rush to be on it.
President Donald Trump’s lawyers failed to convince a single judge, Trump-appointed or otherwise, that there was systemic fraud in the 2020 election, never mind sufficiently outrageous fraud to warrant literally disenfranchising millions of voters. So Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) is suing Vice President Mike Pence to force him to do exactly that.