.MaddowBlog: If the GOP didn't like this model, the party shouldn't have created it.
Amy Coney Barrett's Supreme Court nomination was highly contentious for a great many reasons. It was, after all, just four years earlier when Senate Republicans said eight months before Election Day was far too close to consider a high court nominee, which was a principle GOP senators were happy to cast aside in September and October of 2020.
Ten days later, the committee endorsed Coney Barrett. Three days later, the Senate ended debate on her nomination. One day later, exactly one month to the day after the then-president announced his choice for the seat,There were no legal or procedural reasons the GOP majority in the Senate had to act so quickly, but it was an election season — millions of Americans had already cast ballots at that point through early voting — and Republicans wanted to wrap up the process before Election Day.
Remember, even if the GOP minority were desperate to derail the process, there isn't much Republicans can do — just as Democrats didn't have any realistic options in the fall of 2020. It's a safe bet McConnell and other Republican senators will soon complain about a"rushed" process, and Democratic desperation to"ram through" Biden's prospective nominee, but this will be an instance in which Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer can credible say,"A potential complication is the fact that while Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring at the end of the Supreme Court's current term, that finish line is still several months away.
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