Posted on 07/18/2016 6:12:32 AM PDT by ErikJohnsky
For more than 40 years, there has been an average of just over two months between a president’s nominating someone to the Supreme Court and that person’s receiving a hearing in Congress. It has now been more than four months since I nominated Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit—and Congress left town for a seven-week recess without giving him a hearing, let alone an up-or-down vote.
This is much more serious than your typical case of Washington dysfunction. And if we allow it to continue, the consequences of congressional inaction could weaken our most important institutions, erode public trust and undermine our democracy.
Every Supreme Court nominee since 1875 who hasn’t withdrawn from the process has received a hearing or a vote. Even when the nominee was controversial. Even when the Senate and the White House were held by different parties.
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Eff you Barry Soetoro!
FU Mr. President.
A lame duck appointment? Not no, but HELL no. NOT one more damned Obama appointee for anything.
186 days to go.
what they did in the 2000s to Bush’s judges; obstruct
America is not a democracy.
it was once, before January 20, 2009. It might be again on January 20, 2017.
Up your ya bumbling fool.
You're a lame duck, in every sense of that phrase.
Yeah ... toddle off to Brazil, or Venezuala, or some such place and tell them you're a lame duck. Be sure to translate the phrase into pidgin-Spanish or pidgin-Portugese. They'll love it.
The man who destroys democracy with each lawless executive order, whose Justice Department, EPA, IRS and NSA have been turned into instruments of tyranny, who has raised voter fraud to the state of the art and polluted the electorate with purposeful illegal immigration policies....
This POS has the audacity to lecture on democracy!!!
Garland deserves a vote? What about Americans? What do they deserve? Isn’t that the question? Do they deserve another political hack appointed to the most powerful political body (for that is what the SCT has become) in the land?
You may find out come January.
There’s nothing democratic about stacking the court with left wing legislators and political activists. We saw an example of that recently with Ginsburg.
Obama’s a pest.
If the Progressives hadn’t turned the SCOTUS into an unelected legislative body that sit above Congress and all state legislatures, then this wouldn’t be a problem. But, they have wrecked the Constitution by changing the job of the SCOTUS.
So, go F yourself Bathhouse Barry.
Barack Hussein Obama’s legacy is fading away quick, fast and in a hurry.
F OFF
That whirring sound is Robert Bork rapidly turning over in his grave.
Its the last lick Obama will ever get at SCOTUS, and to deny him and his liberal fascists puts a glow of happiness and joy on the People of the United States.
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