Tillis looked him in the eye and said: No court nominee in an election year. So much for that. BY NE

[RandySF]

The evidence of Republican hypocrisy in pushing through a Supreme Court nominee in an election year is abundant, but still this little tale of Sen. Thom Tillis’ reversal should be added to the pile.

A Massachusetts man wrote to The News & Observer last week recounting his encounter with the senator. Mark Sternman was an employee of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency when he went to a Boston meeting of the New England Council, a nonpartisan alliance of businesses, academic and health institutions that support economic development. The council regularly hears from elected officials and business leaders. On April 11, 2017, the featured speaker was North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis.

Sternman has attended many of the meetings, hearing mostly from Massachusetts politicians. But he keenly remembers the Tillis visit because North Carolina’s junior senator spoke with him personally. After Tillis delivered his remarks, he took questions from the audience. Sternman said he asked about the Senate’s refusal to consider President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016. Tillis assured him that if a similar situation arose involving a president of his own party, he would also refuse to consider a Supreme Court nominee in an election year.
he evidence of Republican hypocrisy in pushing through a Supreme Court nominee in an election year is abundant, but still this little tale of Sen. Thom Tillis’ reversal should be added to the pile.

A Massachusetts man wrote to The News & Observer last week recounting his encounter with the senator. Mark Sternman was an employee of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency when he went to a Boston meeting of the New England Council, a nonpartisan alliance of businesses, academic and health institutions that support economic development. The council regularly hears from elected officials and business leaders. On April 11, 2017, the featured speaker was North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis.

Sternman has attended many of the meetings, hearing mostly from Massachusetts politicians. But he keenly remembers the Tillis visit because North Carolina’s junior senator spoke with him personally. After Tillis delivered his remarks, he took questions from the audience.

Sternman said he asked about the Senate’s refusal to consider President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016. Tillis assured him that if a similar situation arose involving a president of his own party, he would also refuse to consider a Supreme Court nominee in an election year.



https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article246058445.html#storylink=cpy

[tanyev]

1. It's not just an election year. The election has STARTED.

Early voting was already underway in some states when the nomination was made. Millions of absentee ballots have gone out--probably many had even been filled out and returned before the nomination.