Posted on 09/22/2020 1:27:01 AM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
In a speech on the Senate floor in June 1992, Mr. Biden, then the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said there should be a different standard for a Supreme Court vacancy “that would occur in the full throes of an election year.” The president should follow the example of “a majority of his predecessors” and delay naming a replacement, Mr. Biden said. If he goes forward before then, the Senate should wait to consider the nomination.
“Some will criticize such a decision and say that it was nothing more than an attempt to save a seat on the court in hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it, but that would not be our intention,” Mr. Biden said at the time. “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.
Thus when Biden said it was different when Obama nominated Garland compared to Trump nominating a replacement for Ginsburg because he is against Trump doing this as it is, in his own words, so late in the game, he is betrayed as being a liar by the position he took in 1992 as June 1992 would not be late in the game.
Biden sounds alot like John Kerry:
Only difference is Biden is worse as Biden was against it, before he was for it, before he was once again against it.
1992: Republicans control the presidency, Dems control the senate.
2016: Reversed from 1992.
2020: Republicans control both.
Thus how 2020 is different from both 1992 and 2016, and which lines up with precedent from 1880 until now.
All that matters is it’s legal and constitutional and it is their job since they were elected to the majority
The whe story of filling a empty SCOTUS seat during the 4th year of a Presidential term ALWAYS boils down to one fact.
Is the Senate controlled by the President’s party? If yes the seat gets filled, if not it stays empty until after the election.
The GOP picked up two seats in the 2018 Mid Term. While the media was all giddy over Nancy getting the gavel back, those two Senate seats will prove to be more costly to the left than anything imaginable.
How did the Democrats lose seats in the Senate while doing so well in the House?
Short version. Their actions during the Kavenaugh confirmation hearings.
Toss in the nuclear option of not requiring 60 to confirm thanks to Harry Reid. This is a nightmare that the liberal left can do nothing about but scream and we have seen several of those on Social media.
Biden must play politics. He was for something, before he was against something. He will do a little side step.
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