“This election is going to have a huge influence on the makeup of a Supreme Court that we will have to live with for decades.”
Exactly how did the incumbent Republicans vote on Obama’s previous supreme court candidates?
Why am I to believe they’ll be voting against any future ones?
I agree that even a GOP controlled Senate is not going to say no to Obama's Supreme Court nominees automatically. The President, with the support of the MSM, has a lot of power here. But they will, I believe, say no to the sort of radical nominees that Obama is certainly capable of nominating.
And voting no to a nominee when you know that you have a majority and the ability to stop a confirmation is a lot different than voting no when the outcome is inevitable due to majority Dem support.
In addition, if a retirement or a death of a Supreme Court Justice comes late in 2016 then stalling until after the election would be a real possibility.