Posted on 09/07/2016 5:51:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Wednesday that she thinks “cooler heads will prevail” in the Senate, where Republican leaders are refusing to consider President Barack Obama’s high court nominee.
Ginsburg told a group of students at Georgetown University Law Center that lawmakers should appreciate that a president can appoint justices anytime during his term.
“The president is elected for four years, not three years, so the power he has in year three continues into year four,” she said. “And maybe our members of the Senate will wake up and appreciate that that’s how it should be.” …
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Congress is just following the Kerry Rule established by the Democrats that provides that a president should not appoint a Supreme Court justice in an election year.
You never know.
I already knew but it has now become crystal clear that a large number of the Republican leadership are treasonous scum who hate their base.
Is this the ‘justice’ who shed all appearances of impartiality by openly injecting herself into the Presidential campaign?
Ruth Buzzi is right, a president can nominate judicial candidates at any time. The Senate, whose responsibility is to consider those nominees, is likewise free to schedule, or to not schedule hearings at its sole discretion. Cooler heads are already prevailing.
A justice of the Supreme Court should not speak to political questions.
And the Senate is not under a time constraint either. The constitution does not stipulate a time period in which the advice and consent must be given.
STFU
That and recommending that Egypt adopt a clone of South Africa’s communistic constitution, disparaging the US Constitution that she apparently swore an oath to uphold.
She woke up from her 20-hour-a-day NAP to tell us this?
Just stroke OUT already, Granny! And take Hillary! with you! Maybe we can make it a Two-Fer? *SNORT*
Both Ginsberg and the author are wrong.
Ginsberg in that while a President can nominate whom they choose, the Senate has no obligation to act on that nomination.
The author in that it Ginsberg does not appear to have used the word “appoint.” When they can only nominate, not appoint, unless the Senate is in recess.
Maybe His Arrogance should have offered a qualified candidate!
Go back to sleep, Ruth.
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Yo Ruth, compare your nomination process to that of Bork or Thomas.
Time for Ginzbat to cool - to room temperature.
She is as senile as the day is long....
Shes spewing her political opinions again?
I thought she learned her lesson after the smack down she received earlier this year and her apology.
She lost her head over Trump.
Correct.
Buzzi is out of her league.
“The president is elected for four years, not three years, so the power he has in year three continues into year four,”
The Senate’s power to consent (or not to consent) also lasts the whole four years.
The Republicans would only approve the nominee if they want to lose their heads (politically speaking)
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