claim: "there is a precedent" for not nominating someone to the u.s. supreme court "in the middle of a presidential election."
author: paul ryan
evidence_1: feb 13, 2016 ... supreme court vacancies in presidential election years ... practice of not  nominating and confirming supreme court justices during a presidential election  year. ... in that period, there were several nominations and confirmations of  justices .... with the federal arbitration act and supreme court precedent.
evidence_2: jul 2, 2018 ... u.s. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said that senators will ... other  democrats referred to it as the "mcconnell standard" or the ... tradition of not  filling vacancies on the supreme court in the middle of a presidential election  year. ... supreme court nominations in presidential election years are rare, ...
evidence_3: mar 20, 2017 ... a supreme court justice was dead, and the president, in his last year in ... but the  unlucky nominee's bid was forestalled by the u.s. senate, ... “this is equivalent to  a rejection, contingent upon the result of the pending presidential election. ... “on  several of these failed nominations, there seem to have been ...
evidence_4: feb 15, 2016 ... u.s. news ... at the center of republicans' opposition to president obama's plans  to nominate a replacement for supreme court justice antonin scalia is the  argument that the move has no historical precedent. ... even among those  situations, it is rare for a president who is not seeking re-election to have a ...
evidence_5: federal courts up to and including the supreme court are often also the last, best  ... there is no exception for the president to refuse to nominate a successor nor is  ... fourteen presidents have appointed 21 justices during presidential election ...