The entire position of this government is, "oh yeah, well what are YOU gonna do about it? I am in charge here" Real corpo leadership mentality.

Gov should get in a car and drive to the hospital for an in person confirmation.

Too simple for this reality, i know.

Or integrity

I think you’ve perfectly described modern life

Before August 4: Governor runs a special election and seat gets filled that way.

After August 4: seat remains vacant until new senator is elected in generals and new crop of senators gets sworn in.

Republicans are fairly certain they would lose a special election. It doesn't seem they are too confident on keeping the seat in November, either.

For them, an empty seat for 5 months is better than one filled by a D.

This, poetically, being brought to us by the same shmuck who held up replacing Alitos seat, and countless others in lower federal courts in Obama's last term because it was "too close to an election"....a problem that didn't occur for AC(a)B when RBG died at the worst possible time (even closer to an election!), effectively nullifying her whole career.

I don't remember all the details, but for the past years Republicans have stripped away lots of powers of their Democratic governor. And somewhere in there, they also had a rule change that doesn't allow a special election if it's so many months away from a regular election. So basically if they run out the clock, the governor can't hold a special election to replace McConnell.

Edit: I dug up an article

Multiple articles have stated in 2024 changes to state law requires a special election to fill a vacant Senate seat. Before that, a 2021 law allowed the political party holding the seat to submit three names for the governor to choose from, rather than leaving the selection solely to the governor. Political experts cited in the report say timing requirements mean the window to call a special election would be tight, with an estimated cutoff of Aug. 3 based on candidate filing and notice deadlines. It's why if it's announced Aug 4th it'd would have been weekend at Bernie's essentially and why people are calling on Governor Bashear to just call a special election to force their hand.

It's worth noting that the laws the other people are mentioning are just state laws and therefore do not supersede Kentucky's state constitution, which gives Beshear the power to simply appoint a replacement. Including a Democrat, if he wants.

He's "legally" alive, so the risk on saying he's dead is technically slander.

He is not in any shape to perform his duties (or really any duties but existing on a technicality). This is yet another loophole being exploited that needs to be addressed. Likely in the future because this admin sure won't address it.

This. Appoint his replacement and then let them prove he’s alive

Great! Who is in charge of doing this?

Terrified Dems like Garland who never do anything with the power we give them.

Ok so it'll never happen. Got it.

Even if that is the case, which I highly doubt, that means he can't do his job & needs to be replaced.

I have my doubts.

If I understand right, Mitch (still a PoS person) was increasingly hating MAGA and Trump. If he actually was alive to have a say, he would probably support doing the special election just as a fuck you to MAGA.

Think of how stupid the average conservative is, then remember: half of them are stupider than that.

I think that’s going to be inevitable at this point.

But we must preserve the future by allowing the nazi takeover at all costs

How is that any different from the last 10 years?