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FOX News: Obama Can Appoint Supreme Court Justice After Senate Adjourns on January 3rd
The Gateway Pundit ^ | 2-13-2016 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 02/13/2016 8:01:40 PM PST by servo1969

Nightmare scenario-

FOX News reported this afternoon that Barack Obama can appoint a left-wing Supreme Court Justice after the Republican Senate adjourns on January 3, 2016.

Obama will then have 17 days to nominate a far left justice to the Supreme Court.

11 of 12 previous recess appointments were approved by the senate.

This came up in discussion after news broke that conservative Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead today.

This would be his last 'eff-you' to the American people before he leaves office.

God help us.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 114th; bhoscotus; holder; obama; scalia; scotus
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To: xzins
True...The present term ends Jan 3 2017. If the Dems win the Senate in November, he can submit a nomination and get it through after the new Senate is seated.

But I think God is on our side.

Just watch out what the other hand is doing in the Dem camp.

61 posted on 02/13/2016 9:12:01 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: LukeL
Either my calendar is wrong or I am missing something here.

Check your flux capacitor.

62 posted on 02/13/2016 9:12:22 PM PST by kiryandil ("Our Muslim-In-Chief, Barack Obama - the Quislaming in the White House")
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To: xzins

http://www.vindy.com/news/2016/jan/01/senate-up-for-grabs/


63 posted on 02/13/2016 9:16:34 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: servo1969

He will appoint a Muslim imam


64 posted on 02/13/2016 9:30:42 PM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: servo1969

The idiot McConnell has already publicly said he next president should make the choice. WHICH MEANS he is already setting the terms of the deal for Obama to make the appointment. If he was planning a serious fight he would not telegraph anything. All he and any GOP pol had to say was they were in full support of Obama’s nominee having a vote.


65 posted on 02/13/2016 9:36:37 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: RC one

Article II, Section 2, Clause 3.

It would only last until the end of Congress’s session, but a lot of damage could be done in that time.


66 posted on 02/13/2016 9:42:10 PM PST by Reaper19
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To: garjog

My thoughts exactly. A new president will have been elected by then, but not sworn in. The Senate can hold off a few days.


67 posted on 02/13/2016 9:42:42 PM PST by Catsrus (I callz 'em as I seez 'em)
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To: Reaper19

right. I saw that. It seems like more damage could be done if it wasn’t a recess appointment.


68 posted on 02/13/2016 9:44:39 PM PST by RC one (I will vote for the Republican nominee period. end of story.)
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To: Sacajaweau

but the scotus will be 4 to 4 cant do anything to stop the exec order


69 posted on 02/13/2016 10:09:38 PM PST by RightLady (It's gotta be Cruz)
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To: garjog
Solution. Don't adjourn.

They have to. It's the end of the 114th Congress.

The time, it actually is The Recess that was argued when Obama tried to recess appoint the National Labor Relations Board a few years ago when Congress was technically in a pro former session.

If Obama did recess appoint, it would only last until 2018 when the Justice must then step down.

-PJ

70 posted on 02/13/2016 10:20:30 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: servo1969

What if they don’t adjourn, but remain officially in session (even if nobody is there)?

BTW, January 3 is the dy the new Seante’s terms officially begin.


71 posted on 02/13/2016 10:21:41 PM PST by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: servo1969

It is true that Obama can appoint a “Temporary” Supreme Court Justice once the Senate is out of session.

Strategy of the White House: There are many more Republican Senators than Democrat Senators up for election in 2016. It is expected that the Democrats will control the Senate after the election.

Obama will definitely appoint his Supreme Court nominee as a “Temporary Recess Appointment”. Given that the Democrats win the Senate as expected, they will confirm Obama’s nominee. Even if the Democrats do not have enough votes to stop a filibuster, history shows, that they will change the Senate rules to stop the filibuster for a Supreme Court nominee.

It is a sad day in America for our Bill of Rights as our bedrock is on the way out the door by socialist Justices.

A radicalized liberal Supreme Court will rule and base decisions on the US Constitution as a “living” document instead of the static interpretation derived from the founding fathers, meaning the Constitution as we and our fathers have known it is a meaningless document to them.


72 posted on 02/13/2016 10:43:45 PM PST by Col Vit
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To: administrator

Please change 2016 to 2017 in the article. I’m pretty certain that is a typo.


73 posted on 02/13/2016 11:56:05 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Billthedrill
Not impossible: should the Dems win the Senate decisively enough in November, 0bama could make a recess appointment who would be later confirmed in a newly-Democrat Senate. I am uncertain as to what options a new Republican President would have in that case. Should the Presidency go Democrat as well, it doesn't really matter because they'd do anything they wanted anyway. We have a lot riding on November."

Have to factor in that Cankles and her cadre - which includes Senators - believe that they still have a lock on November, and I guarantee you that her SCOTUS list looks different that his SCOTUS list.

74 posted on 02/14/2016 12:05:02 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Own it.)
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To: servo1969
Oh noes!

We need to get Mitt Romney to somehow become President between now and when Obama might do this.

75 posted on 02/14/2016 12:15:09 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: RightLady

btt


76 posted on 02/14/2016 6:03:26 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

I have little confidence in the voters or in politicians. Hold on tight.


77 posted on 02/14/2016 10:46:03 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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