Posted on 09/18/2020 7:45:21 PM PDT by Mariner
Vice President Joe Biden slammed Senate Republicans Thursday for citing the "Biden Rule" as reasoning for why they won't hold a hearing for Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick.
In a Thursday speech, Biden called Republicans "frankly ridiculous" for relying on comments he made in 1992 about the dangers of holding Supreme Court confirmation hearings in the midst of presidential elections.
Biden said the so-called rule that supposedly prevents Supreme Court nominations in an election year "doesn't exist."
He said that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others in the GOP Senate leadership have quoted "selectively" from the remarks he made in 1992 on the floor of the Senate as chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Those comments came after what the vice president called the "bruising and polarizing" confirmation process involving Justice Clarence Thomas.
...He continued: "Every nominee, including Justice Kennedy in an election year, got an up-and-down vote. Not much of the time. Not most of the time, every single solitary time. To now hear all this talk about the Biden rule, it's frankly ridiculous. There is no Biden rule, it doesn't exist."
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I always new McConnell was a number 2.
Pelosi is fuming.
Let us all hope she gets to see her dear friend Ruth very soon.
Biden-splaining. It’s like man-splaining only incoherent.
These things happen in threes.
Biden: The republicans cant use the Biden rule. Only I can. ITS MINE. I’M JOE BIDEN. CMON MAN.
That was what I was thinking too.
My third would be Hitlery.
C’mon man!
Yeah. They can roast marshmallows together.
1. Ruthie.
2. Pelosi
3. Hillary
Anyone taking odds?
The Democrats can howl about the Senate all they want, but in the words of Bane: “Do you feel in charge?”
They are not in charge of the Senate. If this fails to happen, it’s all on the GOP. They need to know that we know this. The weaklings need to firm up. At least it’s an election year, so at least some of them have to face the voters.
President Trump would do well to appoint a very conservative black female in the spirit of healing and unity
All i know is that for the first time in her life she is witnessing perfect justice.
I’m not signed up for an Affirmative Action appointee.
Trump should nominate the most conservative strict constructionist he can get confirmed.
Hey!
The more Joe contradicts himself the more the people are told by the media to love him!
Janice Rogers Brown is 71 y/o.
I don’t know of any other qualified, conservative Black jurist.
How about we pick the best qualified person, and don’t pander to Blacks?
Trump could nominate Biden. Imagine that if you will.
Dianne Frankenstein could go soon. She’s as old as dirt.
Her soul is ugly and all Democrats are haters. Haters go first.
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