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Every Supreme Court nominee since 1875 who hasn’t withdrawn from the process has received a hearing or a vote.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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Not getting a vote IS a vote.
See how that works, Bambi?
Just like you’ve spent 7+ years poisoning the waters of the body politic, so you drink the effluent thereof.
I think we all know.
Yes, Miguel Estrada never got a vote. He may well be on the Supreme Court today if not for Schmuckie Schumer and company.
And for 60 years, Democrats have maintained that Presidents in their last year should NOT have the right to appoint Supreme Court justices.
Garland will be confirmed after the primaries are over. Take it to the bank.
This isn’t a “democracy” anymore Barry. It’s a police state.
The Constitution of the United States gave us a REPUBLIC.
The majority of the founders abhored the thought of a democracy.
I want our REPUBLIC back.
Nothing more, nothing less.
The POTUS who hates the USA, all of Western Civilization, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, precedent, customs, civility, and traditions now suddenly commands us to follow the customs that he himself has trampled repeatedly in his stinking 7.5 year regime.
The man has no decency. I hate hypocrites.
Nobody trusts you, YOU LEFTIST/MUSLIMIST/GLOBALIST IDIOT!
Yeah, it’s not good—neither is this pack of sane/commies robes that are balanced on a knife edge.
ANY five-to-four bullshit HAS to be subject to Congressional review—the present system doesn’t work.
FUBO
FUBO
OK, vote him down
(although I DO NOT trust the RINO’s in congress to do that)
Tuff tacos Barky.
LOL
When was this joker ever interested in “democracy”.
Trump is headed toward a landslide victory of historic proportions.
A lame duck President with less than five months left in office is not going to get his Supreme Court nominee reviewed.
Barack Obama is without influence in Washington.
Barry’s party changed the rules of the game forever when they decided to bork Robert Bork.
Reap the Whirlwind suckers!
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