Toomey's response.......

[SheilaT]

3. Toomey is flat out wrong about 1932 being

the last time this happened.

On January 4, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt (a Democrat) nominated Frank Murphy to replace Pierce Butler, who died on November 16, 1939; Murphy was confirmed by a heavily Democratic Senate on January 16, 1940, by a voice vote.

On November 30, 1987, President Ronald Reagan (a Republican) nominated Justice Anthony Kennedy to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Lewis Powell. A Democratic-controlled Senate confirmed Kennedy (who followed Robert Bork and Douglas Ginsburg as nominees for that slot) on February 3, 1988, by a vote of ninety-seven to zero.

The full article can be read here: http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/supreme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-election-years/

So you might want to write back to Toomey to point out his ignorance.