If it's true that what goes around comes around, then it stands to reason that whatever came around will eventually go around again – and again and again and again. When associate justice of the Supreme Court Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, the Republican-led Senate refused to consider President Obama's appointment to fill the SCOTUS vacancy.  The Republicans based their argument not to consider Obama's pick on the "Biden rule" – an idea conceived from a speech made by then-senator Joe Biden in 1992 where he argued if a SCOTUS seat became vacant during a presidential election year, the sitting president (Bush 41 at that time) should wait until after the election to appoint a replacement.  The basic idea was to let the voters decide who should make the SCOTUS appointment.  So the Biden rule had come around to bite the Democrats – and Obama's pick never got consideration. The extra whammy of the Biden...(Read Full Post)