So one senator comes up with a rule, and now the left claims it has the force of law. Right. The left wishes that passing law was that easy.
And it should go all the way up to the Supreme Court. Wait ... uh, nevermind.
>>This is utter insanity. This clown is a “law professor” and should know better than this. <<
A declaration is NOT a law nor even a procedural rule. But it reinforces the left’s belief there is only one branch of government: the Judiciary.
We did, by electing a President who stated a preference for judges who would abide by the Constitution as written, rather than judicial activists.
This guy is a Law Professor??? Man, he is smoking the good stuff.
This law professor does know better, but this is but one example of the disinformation campaign that is going on within the Democrats. This campaign is aimed at their own voters and this stuff is intended to deceive, inflame, and confuse their supporters. They will need a steamer trunk full of excuses when they fail once again.
The American people have already had a say in who’s the next nominees should be. It’s called a Presidential election. Come in, McConnell, speak up!
Sorry, but if McConnell can arbitrarily create it then he can arbitrarily rescind it.
It is actually the Biden rule, and it doesn’t apply here, but, whatever. The author isn’t stupid, therefore he is a liar.
The People have had a voice in the selection - It was The Presidential Election in November, 2016.
To the democrats 51 republican senators do not represent the will of the people. But 51 democrat senators do.
Each time the leftist idiots ratchet up their stupidity level, it makes you wonder whether they really can be that stupid, or whether it is simply a cynical ploy meant to muddy the waters in an attempt to influence credulous leftist pundits, weak-minded ‘journalists’, and other low-information voters.
This article provides strong evidence indeed that “they really are that stupid”.
Somewhere in Hawaii there is a judge...
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.
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.
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 ...
It's sometimes feels like nobody is taking them seriously.