Of course it was stolen. Republicans shut down the confirmation process for nearly all of Obama's final year in office in terms of replacing Scalia's seat. That's never happened before and there's no way of knowing whether or not Democrats would do the s same since they never pulled a stunt like that. Republicans did. Now Republicans have created a new procedure which would allow Democrats to withhold confirmation hearings for a Republican president's entire 4 years in office the next time Democrats control the Senate.
Even the lapdog mainstream media couldn't justify the Democrats withholding a SCOTUS nomination for four ******* years. You don't think the Democrats haven't pulled shenanigans? Of course they have. From an Ann Coulter column:
So in 1982, Reagan struck a deal with the Democrats to raise some business and excise taxes -- though not income taxes -- in exchange for $280 billion in spending cuts over the next six years. As Reagan wrote in his diary at the time: "The tax increase is the price we have to pay to get the budget cuts."
But, of course, the Democrats were lying. Instead of cutting $280 billion, they spent an additional $450 billion -- only $140 billion of which went to the Reagan defense buildup that ended the Evil Empire.