SCOTUS nominee expected as early as this morning EDIT: looks like it's Garland

[Kaine for Senate '18]

It's our turn and about time we had a Conservative Protestant voice on th court.

Oh boy, that's a dangerous way of thinking. Setting aside that for much of American history the court was dominated by conservative Protestants, religious identity is hardly a good benchmark for a SCOTUS justice.

Garland was arguably the most qualified person who could possibly have been nominated.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Don't you think we should be replacing the conservative leader with someone just as conservative?

No, of course not. No liberal President is going to replace a conservative justice a conservative, nor vice-versa. I guarantee you a GOP President wouldn't replace RBG with another liberal. That's not the way this works.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

You guys blocked Ike from a SCOTUS pick in 1960 because it was an election year. We are only doing the same.

That's just blatantly untrue. There was no vacancy between 1958 and 1962.