From the time late last month that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced that he would be stepping down shortly, it was expected that Senate Democrats would strongly contest any replacement chosen by President Trump.
The reasons include the clearly political—they want to energize their base heading into the midterm elections rather than risking apathy by letting someone designated by such a conflicted chief executive sail through. There is also a sense that a significant blunder was committed when the party, starting with then-President Barack Obama and its nominee to succeed him, Hillary Clinton, didn’t make more of an issue of Senate Republicans’ refusal to even give a hearing to Merrick Garland, Mr. Obama’s nominee to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.
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