OPINION:
The reaction of Sen. Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat, to the news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely passing last weekend was an admonition that failure to fill the vacancy left by Scalia “would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate’s most essential Constitutional responsibilities” (“Reaction to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death,” Web, Feb. 13).
Does anybody seriously think that, if we had a lame-duck Republican president replacing a vacancy left by the court’s most liberal jurist, a Democrat-controlled Senate led by Mr. Reid would not also defer action on any nominee until after the election?
PAUL KAMENAR
Chevy Chase
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