just eight days before the election. they had a big party and a whole bunch of people had covid. she followed brett kavanaugh who was confirmed in -- sexual misconduct -- and neil gorsuch, who was confirmed back in 2017. the only reason trump got to nominate -- was when scalia died in february 2016, with almost a year left on barack obama's final term, then senate majority leader mitch mcconnell took the absolutely unprecedented decision to block whoever president barack obama nominated. not even the nominee, just the nomination. in this case, they nominated garland and he did not get a kieran. and they blocked him for an entire year. and -- had never happened before in the history of the republic. and then, after they had taken that unprecedented step, the first things that mcconnell does when he gets in power in 2017's almost immediately abolish the filibuster for