Garland Breaks 100 Year Old Record Waiting For Confirmation

I can’t let this day go by without noting that Merrick Garland has now set the record for the longest gap between nomination and confirmation by any potential Supreme Court justice in history. The previous “record”, if you want to give it that dubious distinction, was set over 100 years ago by Justice Louis Brandeis whose delay was primarily related to the fact that he would become the first Jew on the Supreme Court. Brandeis persevered and became one of the great Supreme Court justices in our history. Hopefully, Merrick Garland will do the same but he will have to have even more patience than Justice Brandeis as the Republicans continue to stonewall his nomination. Their unwillingness to do their job to advise and consent is just another indication that the Republican party has become a post-policy, post-truth party that, like their candidate, is simply not interested in governing but only exercising and expanding their power.