My mistake. I should have double checked.

Biden said: "the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over."

And if such resignation happens "tomorrow [June 26, 1992], or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer..." when the "political season is under way" to avoid partisan posturing and rancor.

So according to the Biden Rule, which arguably does not even apply if a vacancy occurs at the end of winter, McConnell was supposed to hold hearings and a vote on Merrick Garland after the election. Which he didn't.

So now we have the McConnell Rule, in which eight-and-a-half months is too close to the election to name a Justice, but one-and-a-half is plenty of time.

Quotations are from http://web.archive.org/web/20200817160203/https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/mar/17/context-biden-rule-supreme-court-nominations/

If you're more worried about Democrats than a "temporary" Trump presidency, consider the following:

NEW: The United States is undergoing "substantial autocratization" under Trump. Historic data show that only 1 in 5 democracies that start down this path are able to reverse the damage before succumbing to full-blown autocracy. https://t.co/Z7QUGb8Y27

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) September 18, 2020

The article's paywalled, but the thread has excerpts.

Basically, Trump has as little "respect for the Constitution" as levels last seen in the 1860s, the amount of corruption and self-dealing are as bad as under Harding in the 1920s, and we're on the same path as Hungary or Turkey.

These findings are from V-Dem, or Varieties of Democracy, a group of thousands of experts across the world who collect data to categorize governments and autocracies.

The 80% chance of an autocratic regime comes from this study:

http://web.archive.org/web/20200309235145/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2019.1582029

Thecnicaly is there something wrong about trump selecting a new member for the supreme court right now? I know it is unfortunate for the far left that she died right now (to be fair she should have resigned under obama) and we are a few weeka from the election, but I believe there is nothing wrong trump selecting someone right now correct?

Just re-tagging this thread because it fell to the bottom of my buddy and I'm too lazy to do a deep-dig on it later.

Still maintaining that 90% of the reason modern republican values and arguments are perpetuated is because it's easier to shout something wrong but simple than it is to actually understand what you're talking about and have a nuanced, mature conversation on the matter. Ignorance is easy to swallow when your diet is predicated on emotions and knee-jerk reactions instead of context-sensitive truth and expertise.

Keep in mind ABC is a slightly left-leaning source and thus the interpretation of these facts might be biased! From what I can tell you can't skew a speech without edits, but still. 

Trump overtly celebrates violence against the press.

https://youtu.be/At7n8LMn94A

Wow... I almost wish America was really a racist dictatorship so you could see the real difference. I can guarantee you a racist dictatorship is slightly different from what America is today. 

Ruth Bader Ginsburg stated in an interview in 2016 that the President of the United States is elected for 4 years, not 3 years.  And that a President in the 4th year of his term (referring to Obama at the time) is well within his constitutional rights to nominate a Supreme Court Justice to fill a vacant seat.  And that it is also within the Senate's right to confirm or decline that nomination.  She didn't agree with the Republican Senate's position in 2016, but she confirmed that there was nothing wrong with it constitutionally on either side.

So you beat down on people, and then one of them runs off and collapses from it.

As your moveing forwards with your bikes, you see a man laying there, and you just casually run over him (his head) with your bike?
Holy facking sh*t.... how can anyone do that to another person?
I dont think I could ever do that, even to someone I was angry at or had a fight with ect.
There are just some things you dont do, and that is one of them.

Its crazy to see police officers acting this way.