Democrats must filibuster any nominee who is not Merrick Garland.

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10. Your OP seems to exist in a bubble where Republicans could not invoke the nuclear option.

Their majority simply won't allow Senate Democrats to hold the seat open for two years, they would change the rules, end the filibuster, and confirm their nominee by majority vote.

As a consequence, Democrats would go into a potential Ginsberg vacancy completely irrelevant to conversation, because we wanted to make a symbolic but futile protest on the Scalia seat. We only get one bite at the Supreme Court filibuster apple, even if it proves futile, I'd rather spend it on a vacancy that alters the ideological composition of the Court.