Are you new to this. Have you heard of a guy named Bob Bork and did you hear about the speech of Ted Kennedy about Bob Bork. And about Clarence Thomas, because he didn’t fit into the category that Black People should think? Oh, yea, it was Democrats who started this well more than 30 years ago. Some more recent attempts Senate Democrats did before the Garland issue arose:
Another thing, Democrats claim to love minorities but only the right type of minorities, the liberal ones that tow the far left liberal line. Since you are not aware of the Clarence Thomas, Bob Bork things because you thought partisanship began when Obama nominated Garland a little closer to the time is Miguel Estrada, way back when there was a George W Bush President, maybe that was before your time, he was the wrong kind of Hiapsnic Bush nominated him to a lower court, how did the Democrats deal with him? No filibuster?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/08/13/the_other_hispanic_nominee_97874.html
The Senate only had 55 votes to end the filibuster, but it requires 60 votes to end one. If the Democrats had allowed a full vote, the nominee would have had enough Senate votes to reach confirmation. After all, Clarence Thomas only got 52 votes for his confirmation. Finally, because of fierce opposition by Democratic senators – including the lengthy, seven-month filibuster staged as a procedure-delaying tactic to deny a full Senate confirmation vote – the nominee withdrew in 2003. “This should serve as a wake-up call to the White House that it cannot simply expect the Senate to rubber-stamp judicial nominees,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
The nominee was Miguel Estrada.
Then-President George W. Bush, in 2001, nominated him to the prestigious U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Had Estrada secured the nomination – and had Republicans retained the White House in 2008 – many would have placed Estrada on the list of possible future Supreme Court justices. He, not Sotomayor, could have become that court’s first Hispanic justice. Instead, the “minority-sensitive” Democrats treated him like a child molester. One staff strategy memo sent to Sen. Durbin in 2001 – when the Democrats ran the Senate Judiciary Committee – called Estrada "especially dangerous, because he has a minimal paper trail, he is Latino (emphasis added), and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment."
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., days before chairing a Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearing on Miguel Estrada, told the liberal magazine The Nation: “(Estrada) is like a Stealth missile – with a nose cone – coming out of the right wing’s deepest silo (emphasis added).” When, however, President Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor, Schumer regained his “compassion” for minorities: “(Republicans) oppose her at their peril.”
How dare he nominate a guy to the lower Court he doesn’t think like AOC!! So yes it was Democrats who fought against & filibustered plenty well before Garland…