Posted on 02/15/2016 2:29:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite the objections of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, President Obama has announced his intention to submit a nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
And despite Donald Trump's call for "delay, delay, delay," the Senate Judiciary Committee will almost certainly have to hold a hearing on Obama's eventual nominee.
It would be one thing to vote against an individual, or even to stage a filibuster, but quite another to abdicate the Senate's constitutionally required "advice and consent" function by refusing to extend even the minimal courtesy of a committee hearing.
That brings us to Ted Cruz, who happens to be the only remaining Republican presidential candidate with a seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Under ordinary circumstances, Cruz would therefore be entitled to question the eventual nominee, and to vote on whether his or her name should be advanced to the Senate floor.
Cruz, however, has an unresolvable conflict of interest in this matter, which should disqualify him from participating directly in the proceedings.
As is well known, Cruz's claim to "natural born" United States citizenship has been questioned (bombastically) by Donald Trump, and (very seriously) by a number of highly respected legal scholars, including Harvard's Lawrence Tribe and the University of Chicago's Eric Posner....
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The Republicans need to get their talking points straight and just say that they are invoking the “Schumer rule:” No lame duck Supreme Court appointments unless it is a national emergency.
There's the first lie.
Nothing in the Constitution requires the Senate to act on a nomination. It's up to POTUS to gain their formal consent.
If true, then why don’t we have Robert Bork as a Supreme Court Justice.
The Mitch McConnell and the Senate Judiciary Committee can actually refuse to take the nomination to the floor of the Senate.
Bork was greatly feared by the libs. They worked overtime to get him squashed.
Idiotic.
Anyone born an American citizen is eligible to be president. My two cousins were born in Saudi Arabia to their American parents. They were born American citizens and are eligible to be elected president. It is that simple.
Nice try CNN.
Trump doesn’t have the balls to challenge Cruz’ eligibility to be President.
They’re so cute when they are on crack.
Some idiot has an opinion!
Of course there’s nothing to back it up- he’s an idiot.
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