Posted on 07/09/2018 7:03:33 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
This week, President Trump will announce his nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to schedule the nominee’s confirmation hearings for this fall, before the midterm elections.
If and when McConnell carries through on this promise, Senate Democrats should immediately file a federal lawsuit against him for violating the so-called “McConnell Rule.” (According to this rule, as McConnell himself stated on Feb. 13, 2016, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.”) The issue — whether the McConnell Rule is now binding precedent — would not be political (and therefore “nonjusticiable”) but rather fundamentally legal (and therefore “justiciable”).
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Somehow the left has come to believe that it has a divine right to govern, and anything else is opposed to the historical trend. That is the mentality of totalitarianism.
That’s right. The left has decided that this Senate process used before, now must apply in all cases. And this process somehow is now a law.
Reminds me of how the left quotes the poem at the Statue of Liberty, “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses” and claim that this poem has the force of law, and that it also means we need to allow unlimited illegal immigration.
The left loses their reasoning ability in cases such as these.
I didn't know that Trump is serving his second term, and that 2018 is a Presidential election year, both if which are necessary to trigger the "McConnell Rule," if such a 'rule' even exists.
And the irony is, that on the other hand they can find “rights” in the Constitution which were never enumerated.
Usual nonsense from Dems and the press.
Before the Republican Convention there were a deluge of stories about how Trump delegates would be prevented from voting. Silly stuff that had no chance of happening.
The day after the Presidential Election up until the Electoral College voted there was another deluge of wild schemes to get Electors to defect from Trump. The press reported them as if they were a realistic possibility when they were all just nonsense.
Same thing here. Just Dem fantasies that have no basis in reality.
The Senate Majority Leader gets to decide what will come to the floor for a vote.
McConnell as Majority Leader decided not to schedule a vote on Obama’s appointment of a USSC judge. That is his right as Majority Leader.
If the Democrats in their infinite stupidity want to open up the rules of the Senate to interpretation by the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government, they can have at it when they have the majority.
But presently the Constitution says that the Senate gets to maker their own rules.
Their comments section was a lot like going to mom’s house when she’s in a bad mood...nothing but complaining. Nothing constructive, just complaining. Hard on the brain processing only negative thoughts. I guess that is why people are “walking away”. Sometimes, I cant get out of mom’s house fast enough!
Actually, it is the US Constitution. Each house makes and enforces its own rules.
Do we know what a Senate quorum is? I think it’s a bare majority, 51 senators. Point is, even if some Senators are away running for re-election, the Senate can still vote on this. As long as they have the quorom.
The perfessur is a crackhead. It was a presidential election year. There’s some election every year. You’d never appoint anybody. Besides, Bitch said “should”, and he tag the votes to make it happen. It’s not a law, it was a personal opinion on explanation of a political decision.
I disagree on several points. Washington shuts down in the summer which makes it a great time to have a fire drill in the Office of the Congress. A fall confirmation vote fits into the traditional timeline as there are many frogs to be kissed before you can hold a vote. The substantive reason is because that time frame will put maximum pressure on the Red State Democrat Senators who want to avoid by all means explaining their vote on confirmation to their voters. This is the right plan.
Thus is all about keeping the SC at 4-4 until next year. Renegade Judges can run wild and the 9th circus can actually set precedents.
How is a professor like this not fired, disbarred and stripped of his degrees? McConnell was absolutely clearly referring to the Durbin Rule, which warned presidents from appointing Supreme Court nominees in the last year of their term.
whatamaroon ... Senate rules are not laws, and statements by Senators are not rules ...
Once upon a time, the Left championed Executive Orders: “Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Pretty cool.”
Now they are saying, “Comment from a senator, law of the land. You guys are stuck with it.”
And if this is true, I suggest that some Senator make a comment that EPA and IRS be dismantled. I guess that would be the law, and it would just be so. We don’t need to vote on new laws, right? We just say stuff. Poof!
autumn starts in 10 weeks ... Kennedy doesn’t actually resign for another 3 weeks ... thus that’s only 7 weeks from resignation until the start of autumn ... if a vote does occur that quickly, that’s LIGHTENING fast for an action by the Senate for an issue this profound ...
It's sometimes feels like nobody is taking them seriously.
(According to this rule, as McConnell himself stated on Feb. 13, 2016, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice.”)
We did! We sent Pantsuit packing and moved Donald Trump into the White House. So we the American people have already spoke! Now get on with your job!
‘Law’?! Umm, no.........
Remove Biden from the “Biden Rule” and insert McConnell? Uh, don’t think so!
Mitch McConnell invoked the so-called “Biden Rule”, i.e., former Vice President Joe Biden, to justify why the Senate should not consider the nomination of Merrick Garland to the U.S. Supreme Court in a PRESIDENTIAL election year.
McConnell used Biden’s own words from 1992, when George H.W. Bush was president and Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to explain why he intends to block Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, in another presidential election year.
Either way, it ain’t a law and, in this case, Republicans still control the Senate.
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