> Historically this is pretty standard, I think 28 times there has been a vacancy in the SCOTUS in an election year. It has (almost?) always followed the patter

> Historically this is pretty standard, I think 28 times there has been a vacancy in the SCOTUS in an election year. It has (almost?) always followed the pattern of: Do you have a citation? NYTimes says that there have been only 16 [1], and for the 9 of them since the civil war, there has been no such unified-appoint/divided-no-appoint "tradition" [2]. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/19/us/politics/supreme-court-vacancies-election-year.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/19/us/politics/s... [2] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/09/24/mcconnells-fabricated-history-to-justify-a-2020-supreme-court-vote/ https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/09/24/mcconnells-...