And the Award for Most Succinct and Trenchant Analysis ...

... of the GOP take on replacing Scalia goes to Andrew Ferguson of Liberty:

It is, in one sense, ironic that the first response of Republican legislators in response to the death of their originalist hero was to defy constitutional statements clearly allowing the sitting president, no matter how lame a duck he might be, to suggest a replacement for the fallen justice. But it's certainly not surprising: in this, the GOP is simply following Scalia's own example (as well as that of basically every other politician), honoring and vociferously upholding the Constitution when it supports their own tribal position, and ignoring it as soon as it suits them to do so.