WASHINGTON — When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from the hospital last weekend after another in a string of health scares, blue America breathed a sigh of relief. Only one more month, many whispered, until the start of a presidential election year when filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court would be off limits in the Senate.That was the case in 2016 when Senate Republicans stonewalled President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick B.
“My standard on the nomination of Supreme Court nominees remains the same,” she said. “As long as the president is in office, he has the constitutional right to nominate. I thought that Merrick Garland should have had a hearing and a vote. Now obviously, senators could have voted against him based on the timing. But to block the nomination from proceeding at all, I thought was wrong.”
Democrats remain angry over the treatment of both Obama and Garland and expect Republicans to move aggressively if the chance arose for Trump to place a third nominee on the court. Should any nominee replace one of the four justices picked by Democratic presidents, it would cement a commanding 6-3 conservative majority on the high court, and the lure of that lineup would probably prove irresistible to Republicans.
Should Republicans remain united, however, there is little that Democrats could do to impede a nomination, because a series of rules changes has neutered the filibuster when it comes to judicial picks, meaning the majority party can push through the president’s choice without a single vote from the minority.
Coons said his preference would be that the conflict be avoided altogether and no vacancy arose. If one did, the fight would no doubt spill over into the presidential and congressional elections. It could also give momentum to calls by some Democratic presidential contenders and advocacy groups to reconfigure the court to offset what they see as an illegitimate conservative imbalance — building support for ideas that have not yet been embraced by the party mainstream.
Hell no.
No. Mitch already said he would take up a vote if it would happen.
Of course not. This is not a lame duck session like when Garland was nominated.
Nope, nor should they. Harry Reid set new rules, live by them. Pelosi and Schiff set new rules, they will need to live by in the future.
Hell No
Fat chance! They’re lying, scheming, scamming, unpatriotic hypocrites who will break any and all rules of law and/or propriety (even their own) to cheat and get their way.
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