When President Obama publicly nominates and promotes an obviously well-qualified and seemingly non-partisan/"non-threatening" nominee, the Republicans will have to twist themselves into all kinds of knots to explain why they won't even allow for a nomination hearing. Something tells me that they won't be able to hold out for a whole 10 months and if they do, the GOP is far from destined to win the WH next year, esp. if Trump is their nominee, so Hillary and Bernie will wind up nominating somebody when they take office and the GOP will have to eventually relent. They can't keep the seat vacant for years and they know that. Plus, institutional problems on the Supreme Court while the Republicans are pulling their shenanigans might put some pressure on them as well. Roberts might care about wanting a fully seated court to preside over and *might* convince his Republican buddies to give up on this nonsense. I just can't see this ending well for the GOP but we'll just have to all sit back and watch this farce play out.
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