[Impy]

“As for Wayne Ross, perhaps Palin could recess appoint him”

From what I heard she should not. Are the criticisms of him bunk?

In AZ I think Napalitano could have appoint any “registered Republican” with approval from no one to fill McCain’s seat. Likley she prepared by having some rat switch registration.

[DanZanRyu]

I thought the AZ GOP had to submit 3 names for replacment. The Governor gets to pick the one.

As for AK Attorney General, some liberal blogger claimed Wayen Ross joked about date rape in a conversation 15 years ago. This is the Anita Hill saga all over again. The AK Rodents didn’t like how Wayne Ross was giving Palin legal advice over the AK Senate vacany saga. Therefore how can he be objective according the legislators.

[AuH2ORepublican]

“In AZ I think Napalitano could have appoint any “registered Republican” with approval from no one to fill McCain’s seat. Likley she prepared by having some rat switch registration.”

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I think Napolitano would have done something even worse than appointed a Democrat-cum-registered-Republican: she would have appointed RINO Jim Kolbe as the first openly gay U.S. Senator. He would have taken up a GOP seat in committees and voted with the Democrats across the board, and then run interference against conservative candidates in the next GOP Senate primary (and would actually have a chance of winning because those idiots at the NRSC would have supported him).

In my opinion, laws that limit the governor’s choice of temporary replacement to the U.S. Senate are unconstitutional. Section 2 of the 17th Amendment provides that the governor shall issue a writ of election to fill Senate vacancies, but that the state legislature may empower the governor to make temporary appointments until the voters fill the seat at the next election. The legislature can either empower the governor to make the choice or to deny him the choice-—it cannot “empower” the governor to choose someone from a list or to choose someone with certain qualifications in addition to those set forth in the Constitution. Just as a state legislature may (and all have for over a century) empower voters of the state to elect presidential electors (instead of keeping in the legislature the power to elect presidential electors), but cannot tell voters that they may only choose from among registered Republicans or among candidates under the age of 70, state legislatures would be violating the 17th Amendment when they similarly limit a governor’s choice of replacement senator.