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Obama should appoint a very well qualified justice who has received near unanimous approval from the senate for appointment to a circuit court.
It would then be very amusing to hear what McConnell and the other "leading" senate Pubs would have to say about turning down this candidate after they had voted in favor of placing him/her on the nation's 2nd highest court.
The pretzels they would twist themselves into in order to obstruct would be most entertaining.
Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet, but in a 2005 floor speech in the Senate - recorded in the Congressional Record and therefore not under Copyright protection - McConnell had this to say:https://www.congress.gov/crec/2005/0...-PgS8504-2.pdf
It has been posted several times what Cbuck Shumer said and I have posted that it took the dem controlled Senate committee 16 MONTHS just to get Estrada's vote in the committee.
You know another group underrepresented on the Supreme Court? Stupid people.
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Originally Posted by hawkeye2009
Which is exactly the cohort that Obama would appoint. Therefore, I agree with you- Obama's nominations should be rejected/fillibustered/delayed.
Obama installed a Mexican and a Lesbian. The next nominee would probably be a transgendered, illegal immigrant, Muslim. That would be perfect.
Both of Obama's appointments are Harvard or Yale Law School graduates -- the most difficult law schools to gain admittance. Sorry, one doesn't get into those schools if stupid. Moreover, while you obviously have ideological difference with the two Obama nominees, you would be hard pressed to find any case where they erred in the law.
I do think the aforementioned type is over-represented on CD, however.
It may come as a surprise to you that Ellen Kagan was Justice Scalia's first choice to replace Sandra Day O'Connor and suggested to Justice Ginsberg that she make his suggestion know the President Obama. As for the Mexican, she is actually a New Yorican, that is a Puerto Rican born in New York City, the Bronx to be precise but then again all those brown people look alike I suppose.
It's no surprise that Scalia's words are twisted into Kagan being his first choice for the SC. His words were:
"I have no illusions that your man will nominate someone who shares my orientation,..."
The true meaning of his position was that, of the poison Obama will nominate give us the least painful.
Majority in Fox Poll Say Obama, Senate Should Fill SCOTUS Vacancy Immediately
"A new Fox News poll finds a pretty big majority wants President Obama and the Senate to act immediately on filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Antonin Scalia‘s death.
A whopping 62 percent said that the president and Senate should act now. Only 34 percent believe that Obama shouldn’t get to nominate anyone for a lifetime appointment this late in his second and final term."
"A new Fox News poll finds a pretty big majority wants President Obama and the Senate to act immediately on filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Antonin Scalia‘s death.
A whopping 62 percent said that the president and Senate should act now. Only 34 percent believe that Obama shouldn’t get to nominate anyone for a lifetime appointment this late in his second and final term."
It's gratifying to know that the hard line ideologues here on C-D don't represent the majority across the country.
Also interesting to note that none of the GOP candidates appear to represent the majority either.
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