Posted on 05/30/2023 6:41:09 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
NBC’s Chuck Todd dedicated the entire hour of Meet the Press on Sunday to bemoaning how the Supreme Court has turned into a partisan body....
After whining about how the Supreme Court has turned more conservative and partisan, Todd informed his audience of a “stunning fact.” This so-called fact was that “the last time a Republican-controlled United States Senate confirmed a Democratic President's Supreme Court nominee: Grover Cleveland administration nearly 130 years ago.”
In reality, there have been 28 appointees by Democratic Presidents since Cleveland had his last nominee confirmed in 1895, and since then all but one have been appointed and confirmed with Democrats in the majority in the United States Senate.
The only time since 1895 that a Democratic President appointed someone to the Supreme Court while Republicans controlled the Senate was in 2016 during an election year, which was in violation of the Biden rule.
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Todd Cries: GOP Hasn’t Confirmed A Dem SCOTUS
Pssst Todd it’s called Marxist control
I don’t see the issue. Look what we get when leftists confirm justices: Wise Latinas, not biologists, and queer trolls.
The party-line liar Chuck Todd lies again.
BTW, the Guardians of Gridlock Grover Cleveland vetoed 344 bills during his two terms. The only potus to veto more bills was the would-be court-packer FDR.
Cleveland?
Interesting choice for his lie, being as how Cleveland has been the only President to be reelected to nonconsecutive terms . . . so far.
Great President
What changed so the party of Lincoln was elevating a Confederate, KKK racist to Chief Justice? I’m surprised Todd missed that one.
“What changed so the party of Lincoln was elevating a Confederate, KKK racist to Chief Justice?”
Basically, Taft intended to be Chief himself, so he elevated an existing justice to fill the time
Taft likely expected to be reelected in 1912 but he wasn’t. Though it didn’t matter, since Chief Justice White died shortly after Warren Harding was inaugurated in 1921. And then Taft was made Chief. If White had died during Wilson’s two terms, then Taft wouldn’t have been Chief.
He was the second Chief Justice to have been a Catholic. Roger Taney was the first.
i liked the precedent william henry harrison started. too bad it didn’t catch on.
He could have delegated the task to a deputy, but refused to do so on the ground that he should not delegate what he was unwilling to do himself.
That's the hilarious irony. It was Demonicrat Biden's big mouth back in 1992, when Bush I was president, that allowed the Republicans to keep Traitorgarland off the Supreme Court in 2016.
So then Traitorbiden appoints Traitorgarland as AG (confirmed by a Demonicrat Senate majority, with the help of RINOcrats).
If the “fool-me-once” rule were still active, the Dems’ most recent Trojan horse (Merrick Garland) nominee should keep the Senate from confirming another Dem for generations.
What an idiot
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