A SCOTUS Opening

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2016

https://www.newsweek.com/biden-2016-president-has-constitutional-duty-nominate-supreme-court-justice-even-months-1533106

Quote:"I made it absolutely clear that I would go forward with a confirmation process as [Senate Judiciary] chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires," Biden told attendees of a Georgetown Law School event in 2016.

"The Senate will need to fulfill its constitutional responsibility by considering, debating and voting on that nominee," the then-vice president wrote in the March 2016 Times op-ed, which detailed the rule named after him decades earlier. "My purpose was not to obstruct, but to call for two important goals: restoring a more consultative process between the White House and the Senate in filling Supreme Court vacancies, and encouraging the nomination of a consensus candidate who could lower the partisan temperature in the country."

2020
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/20/biden-says-senate-should-honor-ginsburgs-dying-wish-and-not-vote-on-nominee-before-election.html

Quote:“If Trump wants to put forward a name now, the Senate should not act until after the American people select their next president, their next Congress, their next Senate,” Biden said.

“To jam this nomination through the Senate is just an exercise in raw political power. And I don’t believe the people of this nation will stand for it,” he said.

IMO Biden is in a lose, lose. Trump cannot be accused of hypocrisy in this matter. The worst thing he can do is exactly what Obama did: Nominate a candidate.