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Washington Post Claims Senate Timeline For Confirming Trump SCOTUS Nominee ‘Unprecedented.’ That’s Demonstrably False.

Ashe Schow
Washington Post Claims Senate Timeline For Confirming Trump SCOTUS Nominee ‘Unprecedented.’ That’s Demonstrably False.
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The Washington Post has published an article claiming Senate Republicans’ schedule for confirming a new Supreme Court justice nominated by President Donald Trump is “unprecedented in modern history.”

The readily available facts, however, say otherwise. For starters, “modern history” is defined in the article in specific and cherry-picked ways to ding Trump. Even then, the definitions don’t make the schedule “unprecedented.”

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