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To: inquest
"Nothing in the US Constitution authorizes either polls or protests to deny an appointee the opportunity to be heard before the Judicial Committee, nor before the entire Senate for that matter."You said: "Nothing in the Constitution forbids it either."

Unless you consider that the Constitution delegates the sole authority for nominating justices to the President, and the sole process for seating them to the United States Senate through a procedure that involves its cooperation and concurrence.

Now, inasmuch as it does not delegate any place in that process to citizens for pressuring a President to withdraw his/her nominee, then one can assume that if we are "conservatives," and if being conservative means that we wish to abide by the Constitution's provisions (whether we agree with them or not), then, in that sense, it seems that it does prohibit our interfering in the prescribed process, doesn't it?

That does not mean, however, that, as citizens, we have every right to contact our Senators and urge them to vote against the nominee--once the Constitutional process has been followed.

422 posted on 10/14/2005 8:10:03 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: loveliberty2
Now, inasmuch as it does not delegate any place in that process to citizens for pressuring a President to withdraw his/her nominee

Amazing. You think citizens need to be "delegated" the power to instruct their servants. THE CITIZENS ARE THE ONES DOING THE DELEGATING. What do you think the first three words of the Constitution are supposed to indicate?

That does not mean, however, that, as citizens, we have every right to contact our Senators and urge them to vote against the nominee--once the Constitutional process has been followed.

So it's fine for citizens to instruct Senators to do something that's perfectly constitutional, but not kosher at all for them to instruct the President to do something that's perfectly constitutional?

450 posted on 10/15/2005 7:47:43 AM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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