Do you believe had the parties control been different the dems would not have done the same? As a matter of fact they did try to place Garland but didn’t have the senate control or they would have too..
Filling a Supreme Court seat in an e******n year happens more often than you think…
How unusual is it really to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during a p**********l e******n year?
That question is at the heart of the political fight to replace former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at 79.
But as it turns out, several Democratic and Republican presidents have filled a vacancy on the nation’s highest court in the middle of a heated campaign season.
Since 1900, presidents have nominated seven people for seats on the Supreme Court during an e******n year, according to SCOTUSblog. Six of the seven were confirmed by the Senate…
As it turns out, several Democratic and Republican presidents have filled a vacancy on the nation’s highest court in the middle of a heated campaign season….
The Senate confirmed Mahlon Pitney to replace John Marshall Harlan during President William Taft’s last year in office in 1912. Woodrow Wilson placed two men on the Supreme Court, Louis Brandeis and John Clarke, while running for re-e******n in 1916.
Herbert Hoover added Benjamin Cardozo to the court in 1932, the year he lost re-e******n to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Frank Murphy joined the court eight years later, as FDR faced off against Wendell Willkie in the 1940 p**********l race.
Most recently, Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed by a Democratic-controlled Senate in 1988, during Ronald Reagan’s final year in office.
The only exception came in 1968, when the Senate blocked the nomination of Abe Fortas, Lyndon Johnson’s pick to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren. (Dwight Eisenhower appointed William Brennan to the court during a Senate recess in 1956; Brennan was confirmed by the Senate the following year, after Eisenhower won re-e******n).
In the days since Scalia’s death, Democratic leaders have pointed to the past as they’ve urged the Republican-controlled Senate to fill Scalia’s seat this year.
“It would be unprecedented in “recent history”
for the Supreme Court to go a year with a vacant seat,” Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said in a statement.
Democratic p**********l candidate Hillary Clinton argued that the Senate has a “constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons.”
Clinton’s opponents have said they won’t back down, setting up a battle that could help define the e******n and reshape the congressional calendar during President Obama’s final 11 months in office. They fought to do the very thing you chastise the republicans for and had they had the senate v**es would have in fact put Garland in place.
You may recall there is no absolute requirement to replace or not and the vetting Process we witnessed with Kavaungh was brutal, vicious and a d********g display yet it stopped nothing but lesson the respect of those who got into the most d********g plot of attempted political Annihilation of a judge who has an outstanding performance in duty..“We’re going to have an e******n in November where this vacancy is going to be an item of debate and v**ers are going to get their weigh in,” Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said on Meet the Press yesterday. Rubio added, “I don’t trust Barack Obama on the appointment of Supreme Court justices.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/filling-a-supreme-court-seat-in-an-e******n-year-happens-more-often-than-you-thinkSo please let me re~ask you what, specific unfair vetting process or procedural process was cast unfairly??? Recognizing of course both parties have placed justices during their final year in office??
https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/02/supreme-court-vacancies-in-p**********l-e******n-years/And if you pay attention to the presidents and appointees here you see their is no “ unfair” anything… You find it is politics as usual one party taking full advantage during their control that's all..
Fairness in politics??~~ Never, 3507… It isn't set up up that way both parties doing wh**ever necessary to be in control to wreck havoc on our country not for the betterment of it..As we witness every day!
Do you believe had the parties control been differ... (