The saddest part about this is that there will be people on the Right celebrating the way people on the Left did when Scalia passed. It bothered me then. This is no different.
Unfortunately, the Senate will rush, I think, to do this all prior to the election. I think they will see it as a chance to help them across the board with galvanizing and motivating their base.
The flipside is that the Democrats will now potentially look hard at a different strategy, assuming Biden wins and the senate turns blue.... If Court packing becomes a game, this could have very long, hard consequences for the shape and future of this country.
Whatever has been responsible for driving the US to the bipolar ends of our collective sanity, we are nowhere near an end to the political extremism, I now fear. The cauldron has been bubbling for a while and freshly stoked coals are about to be freely shoveled into the fire.
