I wonder if they’d had this opinion had George W. tried to nominate 3 Supremes? Probably not.
....on the hastily fabricated pretext that a president in his final year of office shouldn’t be allowed to name a new justice because … well, it was never really clear what the supposed principle was behind this self-serving position.
How quaint. The LA Times conveniently forgets the purpose was to prevent a Republican President from getting a Justice approved. JWB if I recall.
And it was their liberal cult leaders Biden and Schumer who proposed the rule. But Freepers know that.
Who cares what they think/say/feel. Suck it up. You lost.
By this logic, no Supreme Court Justices should ever be confirmed going forward.
With that childish and liberal mentality, it is good that that the editorial board of the LA Times has nothing to do with selecting Supreme Court Justices,
It was a conservative justice who the left murdered in the first place.
These fascist are willing to go to literal war for the power they seek. We will each have to make tough decisions soon.
IF THE CITIZENS OF THE USA HAD WANTED GARLAND, OR ANY OTHER LEFTIST, ON THE SCOTUS, THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HILLARY. Period.
… well, it was never really clear what the supposed principle was behind this self-serving position
Ask Joe Biden!
The Times urged the Senate to confirm John Roberts
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They probably knew something we only found out more recently.
-PJ
I don’t blame them for being angry. And I’m not going to be a hypocrite and pretend we didn’t steal the seat. We did. But we stole it fair and square. They need to deal with it because the alternative is we kill what’s left of the filibuster.
One day this is may come back to haunt us. But we have to deal with the here and now. And we can’t allow a left leaning SCOTUS. So yeah, we stole the seat. And no, I’m not apologizing.
The senate was under no obligation to vote on Garland.
OK, so the idea is NOT to place the most qualified person in nomination.
The governing rule is, “you screwed me, so now I’m gonna screw you.”
Do I have that right, LA Times?
Suggest you effete a**holes read George Washington’s Farewell address, providing your “education” allows you to read and, more importantly UNDERSTAND, what he wrote.
Boy,they got *that* right.Today,the House Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader are Republicans and the Rats can't even come close to carrying Florida,Wisconsin,Michigan *or* Pennsylvania.
No,these are *not* normal times.
Their ignorance is breathtaking.
That’s OK. We don’t really care what a phony newspaper prints.
Dear LAT, you don’t get a vote.
THAT is the best these spineless swine can come up with? He stole the seat?
Trump put out a list of 21 names of people he would consider for nomination to SCOTUS. Hillary could have done the same, and certainly Hillary could have critiqued the 21 names Trump did name - or at least one of them.This past election was, in no small part, about those names on that list. As opposed to what the electorate believed Hillary would have put on SCOTUS. Hillary and the Democrats were supremely confident of victory.
The states, via the Electoral College, chose Trump and his very public list . . . and “Them” - as comedian Jimmy Durante used to put it - “is the conditions that prevail."