It is what it is, but since McConnell blew up Garland, the rule is now that a president of either party will never successfully nominate a justice while the other party holds the senate. There will have to be an election first "to let the people decide."
And if a Justice takes ill or feeble, while the party in opposition to the party of the president who nominated him/her, the justice will most likely continue to serve despite pain and feebleness.
What that will mean is a President needs a Senate if the same party to fill seats.
May take a decade for that to happen
The court will dwindle to 8,6,5 justices
May need to pack it just in case
Well I have to wonder how the gop can offer any compromise now. Ginsburg had no choice but cede her state to a Roe foe or serve on in pain. Reasonable people might have ok'd not filling a seat in the future if one opened with less than year before a potus election. I mean the people decided between Hill or Trump replacing Scalia. But Ginsburg would have retired in Obama's second term before 2016 rolled around.
Republicans had an opportunity to square things on the Garland debacle. They doubled down on hypocrisy.
Now it is the Democrats turn to take advantage of a majority
Once Dems take Congress and the Whitehouse, Republicans will talk about bipartisanship, mending fences and leaving the past behind.
But they had a chance to square things and passed it up. Nothing they can do now.