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Rape accusations that appear to have been made up whole cloth, and were certainly never substantiated. Much less proven to be true. As for throwing the concept of bipartisanship down the toilet and fucking around with SCOTUS picks; the Dem's started that fight back with Bork and continued it...

Attempting to threaten the Supreme Court in official legal filings? I'm pretty sure that Republican Senators haven't ever stooped to that particular low before.

Because Garland was qualified and had been confirmed shortly before to the DC Circuit with something like 90+ votes. The only objection to him was that he would be replacing Scalia (pretty much the face of the Originalist/Textualist legal movement) without someone much closer to Kagan in...

Oh, it was absolutely partisan to refuse to hold hearings on Garland. The Republicans refused to hold hearings because a number of them, individually, didn't want to go on record as voting against him. This way the complaints were virtually all tossed on McConnell alone instead of the...

Which is largely a joke. The Senate had zero obligation to vote on Garland. The Senate must consent, and the Senate can spend as long deciding whether or not to Consent as they want. As for Impeachment, again the Senate has zero obligation to remove the President from office. Especially not...

The Supreme Court Police are the ones who provide SCOTUS protection. If they needed more help it would probably come from the US Marshals (they are responsible for protecting all non SCOTUS federal judges and court facilities) before the Secret Service.

Sure, but that applies to every case where a law is changed to evade SCOUTS review. Which has happened a great many times historically. And virtually all the time SCOTUS declares the cases moot. The fact of the matter is that, at the moment, the petitioners have received the relief that they...

Considering they would need sixty votes in the Senate to manage it, unless they first tossed the filibuster entirely, and how politically unpopular it would be; it's not a particularly credible threat. That doesn't change how idiotic it would be, or how stupid it is to try it on this particular...