New Justice

Interesting to watch the change of heart when it comes to nominating a Justice. When Scalia died, a month later Obama nominated Merrit Garland and the senate refused to hold hearings until after the election. Obama and the democratic senators did not have the votes to confirm but they demanded that the process for nomination to begin. The assumption is that if they had had the votes they would have held the hearings and confirmed the nomination. Now Trump will quickly nominate a candidate and this time the republicans have the votes to confirm so they will go ahead with the process. Trump will likely appoint a woman to replace Ginsburg so it will be more difficult to disparage her like they did Justice Kavanaugh. This will probably be a quick confirmation.