Flip: 2015 -- Senator Lindsay Graham (R) Chair of Senate Committee on the Judiciary, speaking immediately after the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2015 (when the President was Barack Obama) said this seat should be held open so that the "next president" could make the nomination for a replacement. Judge Neil Gorsuch was eventually appointed by President Donald Trump and confirmed in April 2017
Flop: 2020 -- Senator Lindsay Graham (R), Chair of Senate Committee on the Judiciary, speaking immediately after the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg September 19, 2020 (when the President was Donald J. Trump), said this vacancy should be filled immediately and not wait for the upcoming November Presidential election.
