If you understood how the process works, only the Senate can vote on the Supreme Court Nominee. When M Garland was picked by Obama, guess who had the majority in the Senate? It wasn't the Dems & the Rep Senate decided they would not hold a confirmation hearing until the next election. Which is PERFECTLY LEGAL for unlike the dirty Democrats, Republicans follow the law & believe in the Constitution.
It will be fun to watch the imploding & angry Dems try to trash & dishonour Amy Comey Barrett but they have no legal or moral standing to prevent her for becoming the 9th Justice on the Supreme Court. She is a strict believer in the Constitution like Scalia. She may not be who
the Dems would have picked but they are not the President! In 2024, they might win the general election & then they can appoint who
they like. Maybe then, they will stop burning the American flag & burning down the country because they don't hold the power in the
country. They need to respect the democracy of the country & stop acting like violent, unhinged, unlawful lunatics.
A federal lawsuit was filed to compel McConnell to hold a vote on Garland. It was thrown out because a judge said the plaintiff, as an ordinary voter, had no standing to sue.
For his part, McConnell argued that the Democrats had at least contemplated a similar tactic back in 1992, when Obama's vice president, Joe Biden, was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and mused about urging President George H.W. Bush to withhold any nominees to the high court until the end of the "political season."
At the time, the Senate had just been through a bruising battle over the 1991 confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas.
As it happened, no vacancy occurred in 1992. But McConnell and others referred to the "Biden rule" nonetheless in justifying the blockade of Garland.