About an hour after Scalia's death was confirmed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell "threw down the gauntlet," announcing that the Senate would not be confirming a replacement for him until after the 2016 election, a move Politico called, "an historic rebuke of President Obama’s authority and an extraordinary challenge to the practice of considering each nominee on his or her individual merits." But there is nothing "historic" or "extraordinary" about challenging "the practice of considering each nominee on his or her individual merits." Democrats have been blocking judicial nominees based on ideological grounds rather than their "individual merits" for decades now.
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