“Sen. Mike Lee: “What is less than zero? The chances of Obama successfully appointing a Supreme Court Justice to replace Scalia.”
The Republican Congress has shown an amazing ability and willingness to enact Obama’s agenda.
It makes me worry.
The GOP has been bought, they are either going willingly or being threatened into moving forward with the impostors agenda
Hobson’s choice - either accept the nominee offered up by the Current Occupant, or leave it empty, inviting charges of “obstruction”. But how many of George W. Bush’s choices for nominations to Federal judiciary positions went UNFILLED, at the behest of Ted Kennedy and Charles Schumer, who effectively blocked a HUGE number of candidates?
Many of these vacancies stretched into the purview of the Current Occupant. And we are paying for that lapse for perhaps decades to come.
It is not absolutely essential that there be a full bench at the Supreme Court. Those cases that are argued and come to a 4-4 split, are remanded back to the lower court from where it came, and that judgment stands. But nothing prevents winning over Justice Kennedy, and making the vote 5-3, thus a win for the liberals, ore even winning over Chief Justice Roberts, as well, which would present a 6-2 vote.
So for now, the eight-member court gives the liberals pretty much free reign, and the outcome in the future for them is not significantly different than it would be should another liberal justice be nominated and confirmed.
Heads I win, tails you lose. And since this is a two-headed coin, the odds are already stacked.