There was no Biden rule.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Back in 2016 and early 2017, Fox News was the self-satisfied home to a great deal of principled thinking about the importance of the American people’s will.

Here, for example, was Laura Ingraham, voicing her approval of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s machinations to bypass Obama nominee Merrick Garland and get conservative justice Neil M. Gorsuch onto the Supreme Court bench after Trump’s election:

“The last 70 years, a Supreme Court justice was not confirmed in the final year of a president’s term,” preached the future Fox host, then a frequent guest on “Hannity.” She fretted that it “doesn’t matter” to left-leaning partisans. This was lofty-sounding but wrong: To pick just one of many examples to the contrary, the Democratic-controlled Senate unanimously confirmed President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Anthony M. Kennedy in early 1988, an election year.

Fox hosts Sean Hannity and Dana Perino, too, signaled their approval of stonewalling Obama’s nomination pick.

“You know, it’s interesting — what goes around comes around,” Hannity opined, mentioning McConnell’s citation of the supposed “Biden rule” to justify the move. “Why should the Republicans act any different?”

There was no such rule, though: Joe Biden, as a senator from Delaware in 1992, had been discussing, in a 1992 speech, “a hypothetical situation involving a voluntary resignation, not a death, that never came to pass,” as Matt Gertz of Media Matters pointed out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/ginsburg-conservative-media-react/2020/09/19/b7a725a2-fa7e-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html

[elleng]

1. Thanks.

'“The last 70 years, a Supreme Court justice was not confirmed in the final year of a president’s term,” preached the future Fox host, then a frequent guest on “Hannity.” She fretted that it “doesn’t matter” to left-leaning partisans. This was lofty-sounding but wrong: To pick just one of many examples to the contrary, the Democratic-controlled Senate unanimously confirmed President Ronald Reagan’s nomination of Anthony M. Kennedy in early 1988, an election year.'

[Midnight Writer]

2. "The Biden Rule" is another trigger word for GOP, like Benghazi or Obamagate.

Nonsense phrases that have no bearing on reality.

[FBaggins]

3. Why would the manner of vacancy matter? Nt

[unblock]

4. I think it's more that it was hypothetical and there was never any vote on this "rule"

Moreover, his "rule" was simply to delay until after the election to avoid turning a Supreme Court nomination into a political circus. There wasn't a suggestion that poppy would be denied a nomination entirely even in the hypothetical.

That's very different from what mcturtle did.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/mar/17/context-biden-rule-supreme-court-nominations/