Supreme Court Justice Confirmation Timing Rules - There Are None!

In 2016, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) attracted much controversy when he refused to hold a vote on Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and cited a rule that he pretty much made up that he called the “Biden Rule”, based on then-Vice President Joe Biden’s 1992 argument for delaying Supreme Court picks until after a …