Posted on 02/14/2016 6:34:31 AM PST by SMGFan
The GOP presidential candidate—and at least two of his rivals—are acting as if the meaning of the Constitution changes depending on the timing of the next election. Antonin Scalia is dead. Is it legitimate for the Republican-controlled Senate to refrain from confirming a replacement for the late Supreme Court justice until a new president is elected, as Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and others on the right have urged? Or does the Senate have an obligation to approve a qualified nominee put forth by President Obama, as many on the left argued as soon as news of the death broke?
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Tables turned, what would Harry Reid do? Do the same.
If Cruz were president, I’m sure the Democrats would hasten to approve someone he would nominate with 10 months left in his term. When pigs fly….
If the GOP can’t stand up to this illegitimate administration when the nation’s very existence hangs in the balance, they have no reason to exist.
Estrada was qualified. Bork was qualified.
The GOP Senate had better block ANY nominee
This is the hill they die on.
Whether they like it or not
None of that matters, we are literally at war with the left, or rather they have been warring against America for a long time. We must not let them place a justice, period.
Ginsberg and Scalia were best buds. Don't be surprised if she resigns.
A court of 7? There is no minimum that I know of...but I believe the max is 12.
F’ the Atlantic.
When you look at the Kenyan’s two justices sitting on the court, it only makes sense for Americans to say, “No mas! No mas!” Stop the freak show.
Yes.
Or does the Senate have an obligation to approve a qualified nominee put forth by President Obama,
No.
That was easy. What do I win?
5.56mm
Too bad they are more interested in a hit piece than in what is best for “We The People” and the country.
Revising my post 9.....9 justices, 8 are associates, 6 is a quorum
This is political war.
If the GOPe has not learned that their rank and file have mutinied and are prepared to leave them on an uninhabited island, they had better learn that and damned fast.
They cave on this and I and millions of others will actively promote any and all independents just to destroy that spineless organization.
The enemy within is more destructive, deceptive, treacherous, and immoral than the enemy without.
ALL so-called “progressives” should have always been excluded from any office where they swear to uphold the Constitution. Their ideology is incapable of honoring it. They have trod it underfoot and with their lawlessness they have brought the nation ever closer to its demise.
I have a simple solution to the whole issue.
Ginsburg should retire.
And the court should just have 7 judges instead of 9.
I'll bet no one is more sad/scared over Scalia's death than the RINOs in the senate. My prediction is that they'll approve Obama's nominee, but the vote will be close to try to make it look good to the voters. This will be the issue that I hope will finally make it clear to conservatives that it is useless to vote for a RINO as the lesser of two evils.
Reid would have the support of his party behind him. Cruz will not because he has not created good working relationships with more than a few of his Senate Republican peers. Most of them can’t stand him.
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