SQUEAL Liberal Piggies!
[NYTimes] Soon after his inauguration next month, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate someone to the Supreme Court, which has been hamstrung by a vacancy since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.
| Not hamstrung at all. They've been hearing cases and issuing judgements ever since, though with the risk of an evenly divided court. |
There will be public debates about the nominee's credentials, past record, judicial philosophy and temperament. There will be Senate hearings and a vote.
No matter how it plays out, Americans must remember one thing above all: The person who gets confirmed will sit in a stolen seat.
It was stolen from Barack Obama, a twice-elected president who fulfilled his constitutional duty more than nine months ago by nominating Merrick Garland, a highly qualified and widely respected federal appellate judge.
I didn't realize it was his personal possession. I thought playing by the rules (especially as warped under Obama, Reid, and Pelosi) was fair play. F&^k off and die,.... with all due respect
It was stolen by top Senate Republicans, who broke with longstanding tradition and refused to consider any nominee Mr. Obama might send them, because they wanted to preserve the court's conservative majority. The main perpetrators of the theft were Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, and Charles Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. But virtually all Republican senators were accomplices; only two supported holding hearings.
| The Senate's duty is advice and consent. They advised President Obama that they would not consent to approving any candidates in the months leading up to the election, following a precedent set by some previous Senates. At the time the Democrats warned that the candidates proposed by President Clinton, and pushed through by the Democrat-dominated Senate, would be much more liberal. Everything that makes you unhappy over the next four to eight years, my dear Times editorialist, is due to Hillary blowing the election. |
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