I wonder if they would make Kamala (President of the Senate) step down while the Senate reviews her for a SCOTUS seat?
Then, once she gets rejected, the Dems can choose another judge and another VP?
Interesting complication.
In the novel and movie Advise and Consent the President dies at the very moment the VP in charge of the Senate has counted the votes to be a tie. Now that he is President instead of VP, he can't cast the tie breaker but wants his own nominee anyway.
Part of synopsis:
Meanwhile, Van Ackerman sics a team of blackmailers on Anderson in an attempt to ensure the nomination, even though Anderson, Munson, and the president know Leffingwell has provided perjured testimony about his past. Anderson travels to New York and confronts his old army lover outside a gay bar, returning to the Capitol to slit his own throat in his Senate office. Chastened by Anderson's suicide, Munson and Cooley agree to disagree in a "nice" way, and the full Senate vote on Leffingwell's nomination ends on a 47-47 tie since Munson has shamed Van Ackerman into walking out of the chamber before his name is called to vote. Just as the voting ends, the Vice-president Harley Hudson, the Senate's presiding officer, is informed of the President's death. Knowing that Leffingwell has given false testimony under oath, Hudson refuses to honor his mentor's dying wish, and cast the deciding vote. Hudson leaves stating that as president-apparent, he'll nominate his own Secretary of State.