Posted on 02/13/2016 3:05:32 PM PST by cotton1706
The last time there was a vacancy during a presidential election year was 1968, when Earl Warren decided to retire and Lyndon Johnson tried to elevate Abe Fortas to fill his seat.
A great political firestorm occurred. It was decided that whoever was elected in November would appoint the successor.
Nixon ended up appointing Warren Burger to replace Earl Warren.
And that new President should appoint Mark Levin!!!
Who knows. Perhaps the reprehensible Justice Ginsburg will soon shuffle off this mortal coil.
That is the only course of action is to force the senate to stop action on this BEFORE it starts. Dont even get the gears started.
If you have a GOP senator, burn their phone lines!
Great point.
I’d like to see Cruz appointed. Be a good spot for him to be for 4 decades.
I had forgotten about him ... !
If this is really the GOP year, then Rubio (even more than Cruz) must demand that the Senate leave the seat vacant for one of them on the stage to fill.
To do otherwise would be a betrayal of all Republicans by the Senate Majority Leader. Both Rubio and Cruz must say that. Tonight.
Cruz and Rubio are fellow Senators with McConnell. They must be the ones to question where McConnell's loyalties lie, and make it toxic for McConnell to do anything but lay the groundwork for the next Republican President, not for Obama.
They have to be the ones to ask their fellow Republican Senators what team they're playing for.
-PJ
That was then, and this is now. Obama’s going to nominate someone as fast as you can imagine (Jarrett’s probably had the paperwork in a file for quite some time), and McConnell’s going to grab his knees and bend over backwards to fast-track the new Justice.
This isn’t your father’s political environment any more.
Yep, the Republicans should make it clear right now, that there will be no new Supreme Court Justice until after the election.
That was different... he announced his plan to retire in 1968, but stayed on the bench until July 1968.
Tell it to Orrin and Mitch.
he stayed on the court until July 1969
I think this turn of events is going to have stronger implications on the Republican presidential race than anything else.
Better yet. Let’s just do away with the so called Supreme Court. It’s just loaded with a bunch of biased political activists now anyway. Let the American people make the decisions what is “constitutional” and what is “unconstitutional”.
As soon as they stop dancing at the White Hut, they will start compiling a list of the most anti US, commie loving Black,lesbian,gays,transgendered, constitution hating SOBs you ever seen
Uhmmm....no!
This is a different world. Obama will get whatever he wants. He has major blackmail on Senate leadership. Get ready for a 5:4 PROGRESSIVE Supreme Court. They could be able to strike down free speech, gun rights, the freedom to travel, the whole ball of wax.
Its time to permanently neutralize this lawless bunch of degenerates who call themselves the Supreme Court.
NO SENATE VOTE ON ANY nomination by the communist ANIMAL in the White House, then 7 new appointees by Trump bringing the number to 15, thereby taking this current menagerie of homosexuals,eggheads, marxists and blackmail victims out of any position to stop a hard right agenda to make this country great again.
This is an opportunity from GOD.
The war on this least important branch of government who has assumed unconstitutional and dictatorial powers and is complicit in the degeneration of the United States has begun.
Abe Fortas was a crook, IIRC.
Of course, Warren Burger was a disaster. He said he thought Roe v. Wade would REDUCE abortions. He lived to regret and repent of that vote.
Burger’s daughter was a pious Catholic. He died praying, and clutching a Rosary.
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