Posted on 10/14/2020 3:14:56 AM PDT by RandFan
Washington (CNN) In the lead up to Monday's confirmation hearings to install Judge Amy Coney Barrett on the US Supreme Court, Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden raised concerns that the efforts to put Barrett on the court are unconstitutional and exemplify court packing.
"The only court packing going on right now, is going on with Republicans packing the court now," Biden told reporters on Saturday. "It is not constitutional what they are doing."
Facts First: This is false. Legal experts say there is nothing strictly unconstitutional about Barrett's confirmation process. When asked by CNN, the Biden campaign argued that the Senate's push to confirm Barrett ahead of the election doesn't violate a specific clause of the Constitution, but people's constitutional right to have a say in who makes the nomination. According to his campaign, Biden's comments refer to the principles and spirit of the Constitution, which they insist the effort to confirm Barrett before the election violates.
Article II, section 2 of the Constitution states that the President "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court."
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“The sheer power to appoint a Supreme Court justice when you’ve got the votes is not in question,” Tribe said. “The question is what principles apply.”
Since when did the rats care about principals? As usual only when they are on the losing side and banging the table.
If the facts are on your side pound the facts into the table. If the law is on your side, pound the law into the table. If neither the facts nor the law are on your side, pound the table.
Operative word being “shall nominate, not “may nominate”.
RBG pointed out that the president serves a full four year term. The people spoke in 2016. The people said, “For the next four years, we want Donald Trump to be the guy who nominates people to the Supreme Court.”
For anyone to pretend otherwise is unconstitutional.
If CNN is telling him to slow his role, that doesn’t bode well for him.
I love how the Democrats always talk about the heart - the soul - the feelings we should all have — & yet they spin right around and have none of that when it comes tot he life of the unborn...
What creatures Democrats are — they are filthy, evil, little snotty things...
I love how the Democrats always talk about the heart - the soul - the feelings we should all have — & yet they spin right around and have none of that when it comes tot he life of the unborn...
What creatures Democrats are — they are filthy, evil, little snotty things...
And Tribe is a Constitutional Scholar?
Will they fact check his claim that he is running for the senate?
OK, what’s going on?
Suddenly the MSM is making Trump look good and exposing Biden?!
Could this actually be an answer to prayer and repentance from Sept 19 with the to prayer events in DC????
Because I never would have believed this would be happening.
Here's an extra funy line in the article.
"Most of what the Constitution forbids is not written down," Tribe noted (Laurence Tribe, Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School)
If I'm in one of his (if that is "his" pronoun) classes, my term paper begins with "Most of my term paper is not written down..."
Now you know why Tribe never got his coveted nomination to SCOTUS himself. He’s a fringe lunatic.
Maybe they're re-thinking things after Pelosi's You-don't-know-what-you're-talking-about meltdown...
Naaaah!
Not CNN! They think Pelosi's a truth seeker.
When President Trump is re-elected, and hopefully republicahns win majorities in both houses, they go after the fake polling and establish standards for polling and ban polling 4 weeks up to an election. Fake polls are being used to influence the electorate and voter turnout.
CNN Fact Checks Joe Biden
Another old pull a rabbit out of the hat trick.
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