Posted on 02/24/2016 7:15:21 AM PST by hemogoblin
The sudden death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has added new, crisis-level urgency to an already tense presidential race.
Almost as quickly as he announced that he will not attend Justice Scalia's funeral, Obama declared that he will, as a lame-duck president, nominate Scalia's replacement. If his appointments of justices Elena Kagan and Sonya Sotomayor are any guide, he will base his appointment on gender, ethnicity, and most of all on dependable liberalism.
Obama's nominee is highly unlikely to be a supporter of free speech, free markets, religious freedom, gun rights, strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, family values and personal responsibility, all of which Obama and his allies have worked feverishly to dismantle since 2008, with varying degrees of success.
Since the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary must confirm the president's Supreme Court nominee, we hereby call upon the Senate to reject the president's appointment -- whatever his or her record and qualifications -- and hand the appointment over to the next president, to be decided in the 2016 presidential election.
Please sign this petition, which will be sent to U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, to assert that it is the American people -- not a radical leftist president finishing off the second of two contentious, misstep-plagued terms in office -- who should determine the character of the Supreme Court going forward.
GOP Senators Say They Won't Even Meet With An Obama
USSC Nominee....adding that it would serve no useful purpose
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It has also been reported that Judiciary Committee Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley has decided to invoke the "Biden Rules," WRT Senate hearings on a possible Obama USSC nomination.
SOURCE: Audio sound bite number six: June 25, 1992, on the Senate floor. Senator Biden says President George H. W. Bush should not appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year.
BIDEN: It is my view that if president Bush goes the way of Presidents Fillmore and [Andrew] Johnson and presses an election-year nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is over.
It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway -- and it is -- action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process. Otherwise it seems to me, Mr. President, we will be in deep trouble as an institution. END BIDEN QUOTE
Silly.
The President has every Constitutional right, and arguably the Constitutional responsibility to nominate whoever they want.
the Senate has every constitutional right to reject anyone the President nominates.
This entire situation was quite well prepared for in our founding documents, petitions and posturing such as this only inflame and unite the other side, just as they would if the parties were reversed.
The Senate should have just quietly reached this consensus and then *appeared* to go along and seriously consider, in statesmanlike fashion whoever is nominated, without all this weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth.
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