The dems have a history of killing republican SCOTUS nominees- payback (unemployment rate, gas prices)
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Obama does not have a track record of nominating people due to their qualifications, but instead he nominates based on their political ideology, gender, race, or sexual preferences.
If he were to actually nominate a qualified jurist, then yes they should receive a fair look from the senate and confirmation if they meet the standard.
His obsessive hatred of liberty and the Second Amendment, and as this is his last chance to stack the court to further erode the constitution, means he will pick someone that is a political activist based on their politics and hatred of American freedom.
If that is the case, then the nominee should not be confirmed, period, no matter who is the next occupant of the white house.
A justice should be nominated because of their qualifications, not ideology, but since franklin Roosevelt, the dem side has always used the court to put in law that couldn't be passed by congress because there was no popular support. Abortion an homosexual "marriage" are just 2 examples.
All that has stood in the way of a socialist takeover of this country for many years has been the supreme court, now the opportunity exists to destroy that last defense.
Obama will nominate a political hack. The senate should give them a fair hearing, and if shown to be an unqualified political hack, they should be denied.
The dems aren't great about doing things for the benefit of the country, so I highly doubt we can expect anything more from obama with this last chance to hurt the country for many more years to come and deepen the divisions he's created between classes and race in his obsessive attempts to destroy this country from within just as Kruscheve said they would do.
Well, unfortunately we can't ask Scalia why he thought Elena Kagan should be appointed to the court. But he didn't seem to share your opinion of Obama's nominations.
The longest vacancy was 27 months and there was a vacancy for over a year as recent as Nixon's first term. Do you just make up stuff as you go along?
Again...
For just a general 'vacancy', you're correct at 27 months. However, the most days between the president sending up a nomination, and the senate voting on it is only 125 days. McConnell (sp) and Cruz are advocating not even considering anyone that Obama nominates. Obama has 341 days left in office.
Either you didn't read the article at your own link, or you didn't understand it.
Let me summarize:
1) Robert Bork, 1987 - Nope, he was rejected in a full-Senate vote. The nomination wasn't killed. It played out as nominations should. The Republicans aren't talking about a floor vote - they're talking and refusing to let Obama's pending nomination out of committee, or even refusing to bring it to a committee vote. Fail
2) Alexander Wolcott, 1811 - Are you under the delusion that the Democratic Party existed in 1811? Hint: it didn't, not coming into existence until the splitting of the Democratic-Republican Party following the 1824 election. Fail
3) Roger Taney, 1835 - He was appointed by Democratic President Andrew Jackson and the nomination killed by the Whigs, the predecessor party to the GOP. Fail
4) Ebenezer Hoar, 1869 - Wrong again, Hoar was voted down by a Reconstruction Senate that featured a monumental 57 to 8 Republican majority Fail
5 & 6) Wheeler Peckham and William Hornblower, 1894 - Remind me again, to which party did President Cleveland belong? Hint: it wasn't the Republicans Double fail
7) Harriet Miers, 2005 - Wrong yet again, it was the conservative base that pitched a complete fit over Miers, whose paper trail was thin and not very reassuring to conservatives, as bemused Democrats looked on. Fail
8) Douglas Ginsburg, 1987 - Your streak of wrong continues. When Ginsburg admitted having smoked marijuana in college, it was Republican Senators such as Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and Chuck Grassley of Iowa who immediately abandoned Ginsburg, and the Reagan administration did soon as well. Fail
What an impressively complete and total fail!
On a side note, Justice Scalia welcomed Elana Kagan's appointment to the high court. And he got a new hunting buddy in the bargain.
Politics is the art of finding compromise so that everyone can buy into an idea. Obstructionist tactics only create more problems. I have seen Reid's name brought up and for good reason. He is an ass. Obama's my way or the highway approach which is returned with interest by the GOP has only divided the nation.
For just a general 'vacancy', you're correct at 27 months. However, the most days between the president sending up a nomination, and the senate voting on it is only 125 days. McConnell (sp) and Cruz are advocating not even considering anyone that Obama nominates. Obama has 341 days left in office.
That's why Obama's approval rating is at 47% and Congress's approval rating is at 12%
Well with 43% or more on the government dole that isn't surprising.
The 111th congress was nothing to brag about either. There is a reason so many gems got voted out of office.
What do you not get about what I posted. I already said you were correct. I then went further and enumerated the longest vacancy when a president has sent up a nomination. 125 days.
Obama will send up a nomination within the next 2 weeks.
What do you not get about what I posted. I already said you were correct. I then went further and enumerated the longest vacancy when a president has sent up a nomination. 125 days.
Obama will send up a nomination within the next 2 weeks.
The senate will confirm long before the election this year. So, I guess you're right again. Within 2 years. You are a smart guy/gal.
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