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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Astonishing

Josh Marshall · Tuesday, February 16, 2016, 12:55 pm

Earlier this morning I was listening to Pete Williams on MSNBC saying there's basically precedent on both sides for what the Republicans are now trying to do: block the President from making a Supreme Court nomination at the beginning of the last year of his term, and that the GOP has plenty of precedent on its side. That is frankly an astonishing claim, with virtually no history to support it. It is also a sobering example of how successful Republicans are usually and are now at working the mainstream media to normalize what are in fact unprecedented actions.

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