Reply #2: Two things [View All]

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One, the vote on Renquist for Chief is the one which mattered in regards to Scalia. The effort at the time was to stop his elevation and thus there would have been no Scalia appointment (he took Renquist's seat).

Two, that was the last nominee not to be judged on ideology. It just wasn't really done back then. Unless a nominee had an ethical or legal problem, he or she was confirmed. Renquist had been alledged, I believe truthfully, to have committed perjury and to have conspired to keep Hispanics from voting in Arizona.