Name:   architect - Subject:   Scalia dead, Obama gets another Date:   2/14/2016 10:47:31 AM (updated 2/14/2016 10:57:28 AM)

Yep, politics as usual from both sides.  OK, lets say the Senate in the current session refuses to act on Obama's choice using McConnel's excuse that the election should be a referendum on the court.  The election happens and the Democrats are victorious big time...Hillary Clinton is president, the senate goes back into a democratic majority but McConnell still has more than enough votes to sustain a filabuster...in other words the people have spoken but they did not say what McConnell hoped...does he now put his politics where his mouth is and refrain from filabustering the nominee of the ex-president?  We both know the answer to that!

Because of the current disfunction both houses of the congress, I can see the possibility that this vacancy could last well past the congressional elections of 2018 regardless of what happens in November of 2016!