Posted on 02/14/2016 1:39:28 PM PST by Nachum
During a Sunday morning appearance on ABC’s “This Week,†Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer decried the intent of many Senate Republicans to prevent President Barack Obama from appointing the successor to deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But less than a decade ago, Schumer advocated doing the same exact thing if any additional Supreme Court vacancies opened under former President George W. Bush. Almost immediately after Scalia’s death was announced Saturday evening, Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates began arguing the appointment of his successor should be left to the next president. Schumer lamented this outlook as pure obstructionism. “You know, the kind
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Democrats have never felt it necessary to practice what they preach. Never and Republicans in DC have always let them get away with it.
Man, I despise the 'Rats.
And neither have republicans. It’s blood sport on both sides instead of merits of the matter in front of them.
While it would never happen, I wonder how the Senate would react if Obama sent a nominee that was a carbon copy of Scalia for consideration. My guess is a down vote if any movement at all.
Exactly.
Slimy cockroach pos schumer needs to stfu and sit down !
Say he nominates a judge. He goes into the confirmation process a guaranteed NO vote, if McConnell is to be believed.
That judge has now been rejected by the Senate. While he may be a perfectly reasonable man and a good jurist (by someone's standards), he'll never be nominated again. From a Senate perspective... he's done.
Theoretically, the President could send a laundry list of candidates to the Senate, and they can be rejected one by one... forever denying a whole series of potential candidates to other Presidents.
If you were a judge, would YOU want your one and only chance of a USSC appointment to be under these circumstances?
Don’t get mad...get even.
You’re right. That leaves only 2 possible nominations; Anthony Weiner or Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Neither has the character needed to refuse such a mission.
Again we see there are no consistent criteria for liberals.
When it would have suited their liberal theology, they were prepared to obstruct any more Bush supreme court nominations. By any means necessary and all that.
But now that the shoe is on the other foot, those previously stated criteria are out the window. Now the criteria are that obama should be able to appoint the replacement justice even though his term of office e ends soon.
“Supreme Court Justice is not something you can plan your career for.” - Sandra Day O’Connor.
There are well over 100 judges on the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, many more on state courts, etc.
Although, yes, I can see turning down the appointment.
They can do that — we can’t.
Republican defectors on this will be politically annihilated.
..Democrats have never felt it necessary to practice what they preach...
The rules are ALWAYS different for the Democrats. And they get away with it because nobody seems to notice. But, maybe more people are noticing lately. It’s always do what I say and not what I do.
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My rebuttal is that while there are 100's of judges, there are probably "short lists" held by both the D and R party.
So, I guess my focus was on the short list candidates. If you are on the D Short List, you'll get one shot (if that). I wouldn't want this to be my time.
Schumer is an idiot.
Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. Roberts had refused to answer some of Schumer’s questions in committee, which the senator said forced him to vote against Roberts. “Now that he is nominated for a position where he can overturn precedent and make law, it is even more important that he fully answers a
very broad range of questions,” Schumer said. “I hope for the sake of the country that Judge Roberts understands this and answers questions openly, honestly and thoroughly.”

“So I would urge my Republican colleagues, no matter how strong they feel — you know, we have three branches of government: we have a House, the Senate, we have a President, and all three of us are going to have to come together and give some. But it is playing with fire to risk the shutting down of the government, just as it is playing with fire to risk not paying the debt ceiling.”
“I think if Thomas Jefferson were looking down, the author of the Bill of Rights, on what’s being proposed here, he’d agree with it. He would agree that the First Amendment cannot be absolute,†Mr. Schumer said.
Think how big it will be.
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