How it works when Republicans are trying to stuff the Supreme Court

Byron York appears to be hiding facts when he expressed his opinion in the Record-Bee on December 9. He says, “… after the election-year death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the GOP Senate majority rejected President Barack Obama's court nominee.”

This would be accurate if Mitch McConnell brought up the nominee for a vote. McConnell said that in an election year the President elect should get to decide who the nominee is. McConnell then, of course, broke his own rule four years later when he rushed through Trump's nominee when RBG died. McConnell broke records with this performance.

York covers it up with a, “That's how it works”. This is only how it works when the Republicans, themselves, are trying to stuff the Supreme Court. Then he ridiculously states,

“The thinking among those Democrats is that if the court does something they oppose, it has become ‘partisan.'” When Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Brings up previous Supreme Court cases that show a reversal of precedent that justifies his Roe v Wade reversal when, in fact, the decisions he states have to do with equal treatment under the law and nothing to do with abortion, then I think that is fairly labeled partisan.

Why doesn't Justice Kavanaugh just tell us he doesn't agree with abortion and “get used to it” instead of lying as he did to senators when he told Susan Collins that Roe v Wade was settled law? York also fails to inform us that 70% of the population supports abortion. Justice Sonia Sotomayor put it succinctly when she said “stench” but Mr. York thinks it is OK to stuff the court as long as it is done by Republicans. Waiting a year to have a replacement for Scalia, fine. Throwing out the filibuster so Republicans can put in their next three choices along partisan lines, fine. But throw out the filibuster so democracy can occur, forget it. Thank you, Mr. York, for explaining democracy to us so succinctly.

— Kevin Bracken, Kelseyville