Democrats should be in no hurry to confirm Gorsuch. [View all]

[kentuck]

As if there was some sort of urgency.

Since the Republicans were willing to let the Supreme Court be short-handed for almost a year, and refused to hold any hearing for Merrick Garland, Democrats should make them pay a price.

If that means holding up the nomination of Gorsuch for one year, then so be it. The Democrats should use the nomination as a negotiating tool with the Republicans. They want Gorsuch bad. If the Republicans get him on the Court too quickly, they will have little incentive to get to the bottom of the Trump/Russia connection.

Until there is a full investigation, the Gorsuch nomination should be put on ice. Democrats need to stop being naive.