1. McConell is going to wait for the next president to allow any supreme court justice to be selected by the Senate.
2. The Senate did all in its power to block him from appointment, starting the current trend of blocking an appointment by a different-party president.
3. In 2007, Chuck Schumer, a Democrat in the Senate during Bush's term, said the Senate would reject any appointments made by President Bush except in, "extraordinary circumstances."
4. Cases on abortion, birth control, voting rights, and marriage equality
5. Cruz believes that the Court will help mandate "unlimited abortion-on-demand, partial birth abortion with taxpayer funding and no parental notification" and will do away with the 2nd Amendment.
6. The Democrats have, in the eyes of the Republicans, started the tradition of blocking Supreme Court appointees based on politics and weakened the filibuster to ram appointees down the minority's throat.
7. It maintains the tradition of checks and balances in our government.
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