IF IT BREATHS GROPE IT!
Posted on 06/29/2018 10:54:57 AM PDT by drpix
There’s a lot of chatter about “The McConnell Rule.” There shouldn’t be, because it’s immaterial. The Senate gets to decide what to do with judicial nominations; everything else is just shouting. In 2016, the Senate was controlled by Republicans. A Democratic president sent that Senate a nomination it didn’t like, and that Senate decided not to act on it... This decision was dressed up by Mitch McConnell as “the Biden Rule.”
In 2018, the Senate still gets to decide. Now that Justice Kennedy has retired, the Senate, which is still run by Republicans, will be sent a nominee. If it likes that nominee, it’ll vote to seat him...
Everything else is just shouting.
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IF IT BREATHS GROPE IT!
The Democrat Party does not care about any rules, laws, precedents, policies, or procedures — unless the application thereof gives their Party more power.
Wonder when the gop-e will figure that out and respond accordingly.
We can thank McConnell for not seating Merrick Garland.
Schumer’s ploy to couch McConnel’s decision to proceed in “an election year” as hypocracy fails because this election is not a national presidential election that McConnel cited to not proceed with Obama’s nomination to replace Scalia.
He did manage to get that right.
People need to be very careful here that we don’t box ourselves in by saying “it’s not a presidential election year!”.
Because there is a distinct possibility another spot opens up in 2020 and we absolutely need to fill that one too without waiting for the results in November.
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