Iguana
If I only could...
How can it not be technically true if that's the rules at the moment?This isn't quite technically true. Whilst that's the rules at the moment, it's not in the constitution, so Congress could change things, by for example shrinking the court and then re-expanding it, giving the sitting president the ability to nominate the newly free slots.
The danger of course is anything the democrats do, the republicans will do so much worse the first change they get.