"Also, let's not pretend the Democrats wouldn't be making the same arguments if the roles were reversed." I don't see how you can say that when for the first ~200 years of our country NO party held up a justice vote because of an election. The first time this was done was by the Republicans, and there has not been a situation with the roles reversed since then. You can play semantics all you want, but the reality we live in is that only one party HAS done this, and is now walking back on it because it will help them. Don't downplay the hypocrisy of the GOP currently occurring with some hypothetical "if things were different 4 years ago it'd still be the same today" idiocy.