The citizens of the United States have a right to the good faith consideration of each Supreme Court nominee. In an attempt to subvert the will of the people, expressed in the reelection of President Barack Obama in 2012, the current Senate has willfully failed to make a timely assertion of their right of "advise and consent."
There is a legal precedent. In United States v. Olano, the Supreme Court reiterated that the holder of a constitutional right may forfeit the right by failing to make a timely assertion of that right.
Moreover, in Freytag v. Commissioner, Justice Scalia held, "Thus, it was not enough simply to repose the power to ... appoint ... in the President; it was also necessary to provide him with the means to resist legislative encroachment upon that power."