“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C.S. Lewis
Yup. She's a psychologist, and if she were committed to the deception there's no doubt she could handle a polygraph carefully constructed with a sympathetic third party.
You're conflating executive vacancies with SCOTUS – two different things, and the rules are different.
You're the "nigger" who needs to look it up. The Vacancies Reform Act applies to executive agency positions only – not judicial appointments.
Again, this is with respect to Article II positions, not Article III.
Look, I'd love it if Trump could wave a magic wand and install whoever he wants to the SCOTUS, but it doesn't work that way. Judicial appointments fall under an entirely separate body of law from executive branch appointments, and his prerogatives are not the same as with an agency appointment.
That said, the Senate can do pretty much whatever it wants. And under current Senate rules, McConnell can bring it to a full vote regardless of what the judiciary committee does, and a filibuster is of no consequence.
>second one
Republican?
White male?
Person with the gall to achieve high office without the imprimatur of the cabal?