Posted on 02/13/2016 2:46:05 PM PST by windhover
RIP Justice Scalia.
There will probably be at least one more out this term by retirement. Obama will make his nominations.
I fear that the GOP isn’t capable of playing this game. I hope I’m wrong.
Sombody’s got to pull out the Bork playbook.
Is the size of the USSC even specified in a statute?
I’m sure 0bama has interrupted his west coast golf game to notify Supreme Court Justice Nominee Eric Holder of his upcoming appointment.
Again...how did Cruz give us Roberts? Cruz was not in the Senate to cast a single vote much less a deciding vote when Roberts was voted to the SC.
Yes. The Constitution only specifies that there is to be a Supreme Court and how it is to be populated. But Congress decides on the size of the Court by statute.
What a nightmare possibility. Sleepless nights to follow.
Trump couldn’t be trusted to uphold the agreement. It may be illegal to make those sorts of deals, anyway.
According to precedent per the 1968 election, the pick of a new Supreme Court justice is made by the next president.
Wasn’t Cruz working for Bush at the time, and Bush appointed Roberts.
I think the number was seven for a long stretch.
The Senate can delay this until a new President is sworn in. Its not a problem unless they make it a problem.
Can you name one conservative that was against Roberts? How was anyone to know what he would do in the future? W nominated him and the Senate approved him. Take your hate somewhere else.
That’s not a legal precedent. At best it can be described as a political precedent, but one that has no meaning.
Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg has every intention of dying on the Supreme Court. She is not going to retire.
Which the Republicans need to be shouting from the top of the hills right now.
The Republicans just gained a huge bargaining chip here, why would they fritter it away by caving in on allowing a new SC Justice to sit before the election?
Nope, not illegal at all. Happened in the Compromise of 1877, although there was a wink and nod. And, yes, Trump would uphold his end or he would get NO senate confirmation of any justice. That’s why it’s a good deal for all.
Oh, I'm keeping up. There is NO guarantee that any judge picked by Cruz or Trump are going to toe the conservative line.
Besides, with Cruz having many puppet masters, who knows from which pool he would draw his judicial candidates.
I thought we were like Venezuela already; we lost on abortion, affirmative action, ObamaCare - I’m past pretending there was any conservatism in the Supreme Court (or the other branches of the government). We lose regardless of who is in the White House, the Congress, or the Supreme Court; doesn’t anyone else see that?
"Both Cruz and Roberts clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist early in their careers, Roberts from 1980 to 1981, Cruz in the mid-1990s.
"After Election Day in 2000, Cruz was a lawyer working on the legal battle over the Florida recount for the Bush/Cheney presidential campaign. Cruz told the Miami Herald that Roberts' name was the first that came to mind when he was asked to help find lawyers to work on the litigation. Roberts reportedly helped with legal briefs and participated in a mock hearing to prepare Bush’s legal team.\ ...
When President George W. Bush nominated Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, Cruz was an outspoken advocate for his confirmation, calling him “brilliant†and a “lawyer’s lawyer."
Obama is such a narcissist he might even nominate himself.
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