Joe Biden and Senate Democrats in 2016 stressed the need to fill a Supreme Court vacancy with all due speed, pointing to the issues that would arise from deadlocked, 4-4 decisions.
David Rutz is senior writer at the Washington Free Beacon. He was previously a sports reporter for two years in Atlanta and has done freelance sports reporting for the Washington Post. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2010 and lives in Marietta, Ga. His Twitter handle is @DavidRutz. He can be reached at rutz@freebeacon.com.