claim: "it’s highly unusual to have a supreme court confirmation in a presidential election year. the last one was 1940."
author: bob goodlatte
evidence_1: feb 13, 2016 ... going through a supreme court confirmation battle in the middle of a ... the last  one occurred in 1988. that year, a democratic senate confirmed president  ronald ... in january 1940, president franklin d. roosevelt nominated frank .....  “it's unique to say that the public itself is going to have sort of an ...
evidence_2: feb 17, 2016 ... the republicans have repeated one specific verse in their chorus against  president barack obama's expected supreme court nomination following ...  been a supreme court vacancy filled in an election year in 80 years. ... the last  time there was a vacancy, nomination and confirmation was 84 years ago.
evidence_3: feb 13, 2016 ... supreme court vacancies in presidential election years ... in the wake of the  death of justice antonin scalia, questions have arisen ... the first nomination  during an election year in the twentieth century came on ... murphy was  confirmed by a heavily democratic senate on january 16, 1940, by a voice vote.
evidence_4: feb 13, 2016 ... while vacancies have rarely arisen in presidential election years, there has been  one presidential election year confirmation in the modern era, that of ... last time  there was a supreme court nomination in a presidential election year ... for what  it's worth, the last time a justice was nominated to the court in a ...
evidence_5: feb 17, 2016 ... obama is the only lame-duck president in the last 116 years who ... it is rare that  supreme court vacancies occur in an election year ... it's been over 80 years now  since, in the last year of the last term of a ... as we have written, the senate in an  election year confirmed president ... 28, 1916, june 1, 1916.