McConnell excused it by his usual bullsh** lies to get his way. How many months from the time Scalia died till super don was inaugurated? McConnell and the gang willfully OBSTRUCTED the right of the president to appoint a justice saying it had to wait till after the election so "the people" could choose whom they wanted to make that decision. Now they are RUSHING to fill the seat that Justice Kennedy vacated only a short time ago. Frantic. Obsessed. It must be NOW and not after the election. Why is that? It is not a logical reversal. Could it possibly be plain old typical standard normal ordinary ugly partisanship and nothing more? A pox on all of them for being so unpatriotic and blatently hostile. Shameful robots doing shameful things for shameful reasons. Who did the programming? A pox on his/her house too! :(