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Mr. Hirst:

You imply that both major parties are responsible. The Democrats didn't block Merrit Garland from assuming a seat on the Supreme Court. It was Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party that denied Barack Obama his right to choose an appointee to the highest court in the land, even though a year was left of his administration and he had no idea who would win the 2016 race. Obama should have appealed to the Court at the time. Even at a four-four split on the Court there was always a chance that a conservative justice would have noted the abuse of Advise and Consent and insist on at least a hearing for Garland. Remember that a Republican-dominated Court went over the heads of voters in 2000 and stopped the recount, in spite of the finding that Gore's votes were undercounted by over 40,000 because of voters who erred by both writing him in and indicating his name o=in the mechanical voting. There was no urgency to gettThereing the count, There was plenty of time before the inauguration to get it right, especially because the complications were unprecedented. Even the Court itself knew they were being high-handed and said they were not setting a precedent, which of course might have gone against Republicans in the future. Republicans started this dirty fight and the facts do not sustain the false equivalence you imply. Democrats have a right to object to justices who consistently favor Republican politics.