Sen. Merkley: If Gorsuch Is Confirmed, Every 5-4 Decision Will Be Illegitimate

Real Clear Politics ^ | March 30, 2017 | Tim Hains

[Blood of Tyrants]

Just wait for the hysteria when Ginsberg dies. The left will go absolutely nuts at the thought of 6-3 decisions in favor of the Constitution instead of 5-4 in favor of judicial activism.

[colorado tanker]

Where in the constitution does it call for a 60 vote approval for SCOTUS?

In the left's "living constitution."

[onedoug]

"...destroy the integrity of the Senate...."

As if they ever had any. This is one of the stupidest statement I've ever heard.

[MHT]

Legit? Like Al Franken’s box of missing votes that showed up at the last minute? Same box the Indian tribe used the last time that Daschle won?

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve got some bad news for Little Jeffrey here. When Gorsuch writes a decision, Kagen and Sotomayor are going to have to find someone to read it to them and then explain what it means.

[onedoug]

democrat=enemy islamist (or their facilitators)

[Not A Snowbird]

Obama went right down the middle

What?

[Nuc 1.1]

Burn the dimocrats to the ground. Jam it down their throats. It’s what the base wants. It’s what I want.

[onyx]

I wish the Grand Old Party’s U.S. Senate Leader still possessed the male male equipment he was gifted at birth!

[gibsonguy]

He destroyed his only chance of making a point with the Obama right down the middle remark. On what planet do these people live on when they think Obongo went right down the middle. Wow.

[Ted Grant]

Except the liberal decisions. Those will be triumphs of jurisprudence

[Hugin]

Sen. Jeff Merkely says a decision to use the 'Nuclear Option' to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court would "destroy the integrity of the Senate" and "highly politicize the [Supreme] court."

That first train left the station with Judge Bork. The second with Roe v. Wade.

[publius911]

So, is he asserting that Kagan and Sotomayor are “mainstream”? lol

Don't forget Kennedy.
Three perverts in a 9 person court?

Call the nearest insane asylum. One very dangerous inmate has escaped. WTF?

...might decide to go further to the left or right outside of the mainstream. "Obama went right down the middle, and unfortunately, President Trump has not."

On second thought, "insane" is too mild a word...

[Hugin]

And “super-precedents” that can never be changed (per Diane Feinstein).

[Eccl 10:2]

Sen. Merkley: If Gorsuch Is Confirmed, Every 5-4 Decision Will Be Illegitimate Law of the Land

FIFY, Senator

[Phil DiBasquette]

Right down the middle of the Q’u’r’a’n

[Savage Beast]

In your dreams, moron.

[Paladin2]

Kagan hasn’t written much in the last two years. Coasting she is.

[Flick Lives]

How long before the f’n Libs label Gorsuch a tool of the Russians?

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Well, regardless of what the ‘Rat Senator said about it, if his logic is to be followed, all decisions of the appeals court are invalid, as are the decisions of all Obama judges appointed as a result of Reid’s use of the nuclear option.