How the Supreme Court nomination can navigate troubled political waters

Unlike 2016, Republicans want to fill a Supreme Court vacancy ASAP, and Democrats insist on waiting until after inauguration — as usual, both sides seem like hypocrites, and everybody’s playing politics.

The Left says Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s dying wish was for the new president to choose her replacement. With all due respect, that doesn’t matter one iota. The only thing that matters is the Constitution. That’s if you want to play by the rules. Given that everything is done by the Constitution, politics becomes the primary concern.

As for me, my concern is that confirming a new Supreme Court justice before the election will be a sacrifice fly for President Trump. He might get another conservative Supreme Court justice on the scoreboard, but he risks losing the election. So far, there's been little to get the Left excited about Joe Biden's candidacy, other than the fact that he's not Trump. Ginsburg was an idol to the Left. Any attempt to fill her seat with a real constitutionalist will rally more Democrats to ballot boxes (of course, it may be that any leftist voters galvanized by Ginsburg's passing were already going to vote against Trump).