Question:
Seeing how -
1) President-elect *vomits* tRump will NOT carry the popular vote from the looks of it, and will thus not really have a mandate by any standard; and
2) Congress/Senate is not actually required to approve SQ justices per the constitution’s wording; and
3) Congress/Senate has had more than enough time to approve/disapprove SQ candidate Garland and just simply decided not to do anything; and lastly
4) Obama is still the popularly-elected president until the end of December;

- Couldn’t Obama just decide to appoint Garland to the Supreme Court before the end of December and be done with it?