saltwind 78 wrote:
It was the Republicans that stole two Justice se******ns from Obama, and the incoming President, Which looks like it should go to Biden. Paybacks are hell!
The Republicans didn’t steal anything!!!
Twenty-nine times in history there has been an open Supreme Court vacancy in a p**********l e******n year, or a lame-duck session before the next p**********l inauguration... The president made a nomination in all twenty-nine cases!!! George Washington did it three times. John Adams did it. Thomas Jefferson did it. Abraham Lincoln did it. Ulysses S. Grant did it. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. Barack Obama, of course, did it. Twenty-two of the 44 men to hold the office faced this situation, and all twenty-two made the decision to send up a nomination, whether or not they had the v**es in the Senate!!! All of them, not just a few...
Trumps appointments is part of his job, like it or not..
The U.S. Constitution in only a few words. The “Appointments Clause” (Article II, Section 2, Clause 2) states that the President “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ...Does not say can or might, but “shall appoint..”
Nineteen times between 1796 and 1968, presidents have sought to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in a p**********l-e******n year while their party controlled the Senate. Ten of those nominations came before the e******n; nine of the ten were successful...
The bottom line: If a president and the Senate agree on a Supreme Court nominee, timing has never stopped them. “By tradition,”only when the v**ers have elected a president and a Senate majority from different parties has the fact of a looming p**********l e******n mattered. When there is no dispute between the branches, there is no need to ask the v**ers to resolve one...
An e******n year alone is not the historical rule... The fact of ”divided government” was what connected concerns about an e******n-year nomination to historical practice...
The political reality behind the so-called “Biden rule” frequently invoked by McConnell and Grassley in 2016 is that the Senate in 1992 was held by Democrats, and by warning the first President Bush against an e******n-year nomination, Biden was asserting the partisan prerogatives of the Democratic Senate majority. In fact, Biden in his June 1992 speech on refusing to confirm any e******n-year Bush nominees leaned explicitly on the different standards applicable to divided government...
So what is different here?? Not a damn thing but cry baby democrats ...
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44235.pdfhttps://www.abajournal.com/web/article/history-shows-how-scotus-nominations-play-out-in-e******n-years