I thought President Trump handled the nomination for Supreme Court justice well last night. Pointing out tha he is President for four years not three.
The President and only the president can nominate a supreme court justice, and the Senate and only the Senate can, if it wants to, confirm that nomination.
The President is not required to nominate someone merely to satisfy any body of Senators, and the Senators are not required to vote on or approve anyone the President nominates.
Nothing opposed by the Constitution has yet taken place with any Supreme Court nomination, at any time whether during Obama’s time or Trump’s.
The Dims are using the sheeple’s Constitutional ignorance to displace the Constitutional demands of Supreme Court nominations with the Dims’ mere political demands.
And the Senate has the sole power to consent.
The Dems are coming across as whiny school children. They say it’s “unfair” that Trump’s nominating someone and referring to Obama’s lame duck term where he was rebuffed by a Republican senate. Trump has the power and the duty to nominate a replacement to Buzzy’s seat.
The President and the Senate have to agree for a nominee to become a Justice. They did not on Garland. This is not complicated. It should be a great way to make the Democrats freak out. Unfortunately, the Republicans are scared of CNN and the WaPo. They know they have to do it, but the President is dragging them kicking and screaming.
If Democrats demand that filling a late term Supreme Court vacancy should wait for the future president and senate then why don’t they feel that way about the late 2016 Supreme Court vacancy?
The Constitution settles this argument before it starts, and it doesn’t settle the argument on the basis of acting vs waiting. The Constitution places the poower of filling Supreme Court vacancies with the president and the senate.
Period. Elections have consequences.
This piece made me think about the unique role of the Senate and how that has become pretty absurd since the ratification of the 17th Amendment. Originally, the Senate was the representative of the states’ governments. The state governments thus had an indirect say in treaties, appointments to government offices, federal judges/justices and perhaps most importantly treaties with foreign nations.
State governments now have no representation in the Federal government at all and the Senate is really just a pared down version of the House with longer terms and pretended ‘dignity’.
There’s nothing shameful about hypocrisy.