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SEPTEMBER

**22, 2020**

Meyerson on TAP

Why the Republicans Should Confirm Trump's Nominee Today!

What's delaying Mitch McConnell? With Lamar Alexander, Charles
Grassley, Cory Gardner, and now Mitt Romney pledging to support whomever
Donald Trump anoints as our next Supreme Court justice, Mitch has the
votes to move forward right now.

What's he waiting for? Hearings? Just more senatorial and nominee
babble; who needs them? Ruth Bader Ginsburg's funeral? He's already
expressed his regrets at her passing, or at least at the institution of
death more generally.

OK, OK, I get it. Trump hasn't chosen a nominee yet. But that
shouldn't pose an obstacle to the 51 yes-men and -women who've
signed the Whatever Donald Wants Pledge and who constitute the majority
of the United States Senate.

Since their votes to confirm Trump's pick are effectively already
cast, why not just go ahead and preemptively vote to confirm everyone on
Trump's short list? Barrett? Sure! Lagoa? Of course! Ivanka? Why not?!
There may not be enough vacancies to put them all on the Court right
now, but there's no reason not to confirm them today in the sure
expectation that other vacancies will eventually occur. (See, above,
McConnell's regrets at the inevitability of death.)

Besides, if there's one thing in which Senate Republicans believe,
it's that only the present is real. Didn't they say in 2016 that
they wouldn't vote on a Supreme Court nomination in an election year?
But that was then, and "then" doesn't count! And isn't Trump not
announcing his pick until the weekend? But that's the future, and the
future doesn't count either! Living for today, voting for what we want
today (and we want a lot)-that's the Republican creed (well, along
with support for plutocracy, white supremacy, and low levels of
literacy).

So, Mitch-what's holding you back? Your drones are aligned. Let's
vote today!

~ HAROLD MEYERSON

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