FLASHBACK: Joe Biden in 1987: President Should Weigh the Senate’s ‘Prevailing Views’ about High Court. “The U.S. Senate has confirmed only five Supreme Court justices during presidential election years since 1912 – and the last time it happened current Vice President Joe Biden defended the Senate’s constitutional right to act as ‘a forceful constitutional counterweight’ to the president’s nominee.”

Well, sure, but that’s when we have a Republican president. When we have a Democrat in the White House, being a forceful constitutional counterweight is terroristic obstruction.