To deny it would be an abdication of the Senate’s Constitutional duty. It would indicate a process for nominating and confirming judges that is beyond repair.
That means more battles like the one now going on between the Justice Department and California, which enacted a tough net neutrality law in the wake of the FCC's abdication.
With the cat out of the bag, and with Wallis' divorce out of the way, a word started to make the rounds amongst the British Cabinet of Ministers and that word was " abdication" .
This is an abdication of the Senate’s responsibility. Every Supreme Court nominee since 1875 who hasn’t withdrawn from the process has received a hearing or a vote.
The reason behind his abdication was his love for a woman the British Court and the establishment would have never accepted as a Queen: the American, twice divorced, Wallis Simpson.
Millions of listeners held their breath as he announced his resolve to go forward with a decision which was, and remains, unique in British history: his abdication of the throne.