Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Trump Is Proving That Democracy Is Broken

When Republicans barely try to justify approving a Supreme Court pick now after blocking Obama’s in 2016, normal politics has crumbled.

September 21, 2020 at 6:45 PM EDT

By Jonathan Bernstein

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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Republicans are likely to move ahead and fill the current Supreme Court vacancy to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, even if doing so contradicts the rationalizations they offered in 2016 for squashing President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. On this point, at least, President Donald Trump is honest:

“Merrick Garland is an outstanding judge,” Trump said Monday on “Fox & Friends.” He continued:

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