A report from the Republican Congressional Research Committee found numerous precedents for the Senate not even considering a nominee for the Supreme Court. “I hope everyone reads this very important report,” said Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell. “It lays out the case that it is clearly within the Constitutional power of the legislature to not do things. Just in the last decade, we have not done anything about climate change, and that is a much bigger problem than one seat on the Supreme Court. There’s also a nice analysis of the early 2000s when we didn’t do anything about the out-of-control banking system. And it even goes back to the first decades of the republic and how we refused to do anything about slavery. Any argument from the Democrats that our refusing to act on a nomination is somehow new or unprecedented is clearly a politically motivated lie.”