The Democrats have a big problem in spinning all those pieties about "letting voters speak" before naming or confirming a new justice.  Only four years ago, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland late in his second term, and virtually all the Democrat leadership took a strong stand that he receive a vote before "letting voters speak" in the election that resulted in the election of Donald Trump.

And boy, oh boy, were they ever self-righteous about it.  (The way Democrats are, no matter the issue.)  Joe Biden even wagged his finger at us:

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The Republican National Committee has put together a two-minute video collection of them huffing and puffing about the duty of the Senate to take up the nomination.

Die-hard Trump-haters won't be reached by reminders of this history, but for the only segment of voters that matters — the undecideds and the persuadables — the outright BS nature of the "principles" that Democrats pretend to stand on now can work against them.

The public doesn't like politicians, and one of Trump's greatest appeals is that he is not a professional career politician and is a straight shooter.  Dems need to be very careful here.

Even Justice Ginsburg went on the record:

Ginsburg had an opinion on that back in 2016, too. Speaking before the New York City Bar Association in October of that year, Ginsburg appeared alongside her fellow New York native Justice Sonia Sotomayor and remarked that a divided court with an even number of justices is not an ideal way to move forward even in the short term.

"Eight is not a good number," Ginsburg said, according to the Washington Post.

Sotomayor then added: "I think we hope there will be nine [justices] as soon as possible."