In some quantum branch it actually has , according to some lines of thinking . <| sep |> I believe the fine print states he has an obligation to pick a nominee that the Senate then has the obligation vote on the nominee . If I recall correctly Obama filled his end of the process but the Republican controlled Senate came up with total bullshit reasons why they wouldn ' t do their job . Nowhere , anywhere , in that process did i see Obama demand that anyone confirm his nomination rather he asked them to do their job and they didn ' t cause Republicans care about power , not democracy . You know how we can prove this nomination was stolen ? I bet you a hundred trillion billion dollars that they will jot even consider Obama ' s nominee who is a moderate compromise candidate , nor will Trump nominate a candidate in a similar vein . Instead they will nominate a throughandthrough rightwing conservative . They stole the nomination by pissing on the timetested process what an image , conservatives bucking tradition for political expediency , it ' s like the polar opposite of the definitionbof their supposed ideology and stalling in order to deny Obama his constitutional duty to nominate a candidate and see them sit on the bench . Fuck Republicans , any party that subverts our democracy and the Constitution that way are traitors who deserve to be treated as such . Until Democrats , progressives and moderates who believe in the rule of law stop treating them with kid gloves , our democracy will be subverted to their antidemocratic whims . Im tired of acting like Republicans are even playing the same game here , they ' re not . Its ludicrous to think reform is possible in the face of such blatant disregard for the welfare and will of the American people and the law which has held the country together . I hope in the next four years a lot of those who voted for Trump will see just how devastating having a uniformly Republican government will be to their wellbeing . But I don ' t hold out much hope that by 2020 change via the ballot will even be an option . I suspect the newly strengthened conservative supreme court will have helped the Republican agenda of disenfranchising as many Democrat leaning voters as possible while gerrymandering enough districts and suppressing voter turnout . Yeah , they stole the nomination . Because that is what they do .