Chuck Grassley proves again that he's unfit to be in charge of the federal judiciary

Sen. Chuck Grassley finally came out of his undisclosed location in Iowa to talk to actual people. The Sioux City Rotary Club, to be exact, where he said that Donald Trump could definitely be president and Hillary Clinton is just as bad because she is "trying to advocate him to the Ku Klux Klan, which is in her advertisements." There might be a clue there in that "sentence" as to why Grassley's campaign isn't letting him out all that often.

But the most amazing part is this, Grassley—chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee—justifying his blockade of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland:

Grassley said there has been a well-accepted "understanding" in Senate since 1987 that no Supreme Court vacancies should be filled in the final year of a presidential term.

"It had nothing to do with Garland (personally)," Grassley said.

Grassley said the only way his stance could change is if a large number of senators strongly urged him to consider the nomination during a so-called "lame-duck session" of Congress, during the time after the Nov. 8 election and before the new Congress takes office in January.

No. There is not such understanding about Supreme Court nominees. Grassley totally made that up a few months ago to try to justify doing this totally unprecedented thing. And by the way, how many senators is a "large number"? Because so far there are 44 of them, including the independent ones and a Republican, who have been calling for hearings. 

But here's Grassley, again, proving that he is not fit to be the gatekeeper to the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary.

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