Posted on 01/03/2017 11:09:16 AM PST by Trump20162020
One of 2016’s most spectacular examples of government dysfunction was the U.S. Senate’s outrageous refusal to consider President Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. That dereliction of duty by the Republican majority not only denied a sitting president his constitutional prerogative to fill vacancies in the court (so that the appointment would go instead to a hoped-for Republican successor). It also prevented the court from resolving a handful of cases because of a 4-4 split and probably discouraged the justices from accepting other cases because of the possibility of a similar deadlock.
Less well known is the fact that the Senate also failed to hold floor votes on 24 Obama nominees for lifetime federal judgeships who had been cleared by the Senate Judiciary Committee. They are among 59 aspiring judicial appointees whose nominations will expire when the 114th Congress fades into history this month.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
ah...elections have consequences....
t.s.
I heard someone say t.s. when I was small. I asked my mother what it meant and she said, “tough shoveling.” I was an adult before I learned what it really meant.
Like it’s never been done before. Certainly not by democrats. /faint
Bork ‘em if they can’t take a joke.
What’s the problem?
Uncle Joseph Biden established the precedent.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. The rules are for thee, not for me.
Sounds like the Senate, exercising ITS OWN constitutional prerogative, did not consent to those whom the President proposed for the bench.
Kinda obvious there, LA Times....!
All Senators took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
The Republicans were the only ones doing their job in this case.
Garland would have been a Constitutional disaster.
LA Times: We won, you lost, get used to it.
Payback. Well earned.
The poor LA Slimes editorial board is butthurt when the shoe is on the other foot. Live with it, leftists!
Go suck it, LA Times.
(The Never Trumpers like the La Slimes editors, never die, they just get smellier, snarl, whine more and look/act very depressed like the losers shown below!)
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Translation:
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The left sure loves playing victim. Hopefully we’ll be enjoying their show for the next eight years and beyond.
Translation:
WAAAHHHH WAAAAAAA WAAAHHHHHHHHH
The left sure loves playing victim. Hopefully we’ll be enjoying their show for the next eight years and beyond.
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