Carl in Michigan
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Someone should go ask Norm Coleman if he still thinks giving up and handing the election to Al Franken really was good for the country.
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The senate didn't stop Obama from filling the seat. All he had to do was to nominate someone acceptable to the republicans. He chose not to nominate anyone when the senate rejected Garland by ignoring the nomination. There was a time, not even that long ago, that SCOTUS nominees were people that both parties could agree on. The Democrats changed that.Replacing Ginsberg before the election isn't "unprecedented". Been done 19 times, with 17 confirmations.
Why didn’t you post this thread in 2016?
Interesting factoid. Obama did nominate someone to the SCOTUS in 2016. No one stopped him from doing that. Didn't know that, huh?
Merrick Garland
Exactly. Thank you. You lied, Obama made a SCOTUS nomination. You lied and said he wasn't allowed to do that. He was allowed, and he did make a nomination. Please stick to truth and stop lying. Thanks
He was not allowed to fill a seat during his legal term as President.
Republicans did not say Garland is an unacceptable choice, McConnell said......We will not allow you to fill a vacancy during an election year.
Now, it seems, McConnell is saying election year has nothing to do with it. He is saying you are not allowed to fill a seat while an opposition party holds the Senate
Yep. Democrats changed that and invented the term to "Bork" someone at the same time. Then they Borked Thomas. Republicans continued to confirm leftist Democrats for two Obama picks, Sotomayor and Kagan.
Failing to confirm far left Garland was the first time they fought back.
Democrats in their typical form do what they do then whine when they get it back
We dont repay them for their bad behavior. We really need to start.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016, reaffirmed on Tuesday that he would happily ram through confirmation of one of President Donald Trump’s nominees if a vacancy occurred in the final months of Trump’s term.
Now, his office is defending that statement, claiming it was not a reversal of McConnell’s previous comments on the matter.
McConnell claimed in 2016 that Garland’s nomination by President Barack Obama, following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, should not be brought to a vote because “the American people should have a say in the Court’s direction.” In February of that year, he released a statement vowing to keep the seat open so that the next president would be able to fill it.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” he said. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
McConnell’s office desperately tries to rewrite history on Merrick Garland
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) kept Garland from getting a vote, but now says he'd confirm a Trump nominee just before the 2020 election.archive.thinkprogress.org
They tape this stuff you know Mitch
As I said yesterday, Mitch will definitely move to confirm a nominee, nominated by the president. Of course it absolutely true, doing so is 180 degrees from his principled/unprincipled? stance of 2016. Anybody that thought principle or lack thereof would slow down the process for people like Mitch were living in a dream world. It is equally true that it will not be looked on favorably by the electorate, and will hand the Presidency to the Biden and deliver the Senate to the Democrats. Trump does not give a damn about the Senate, as on his side of the fence they are reduced to boot lickers, place holders, and turncoats to the cult of trump and were probably going to lose the Senate anyway, so they are perfect to take one for the cause, tough patooties.
Everyday, Trump does something that you bozos claim will hand victory to Biden and Democrats.
That won't turn out the way you hope.
It very welll might. Guess we'll have to wait till the early voting, in person voting and mail in / absentee voting is counted.
Does that include all the ballots marked D that are suddenly "found" in close precincts?
it is, we get another SC Justice on the court......if FDR hadn't made the court partisan I may actually care about this, but I don't.......Cocaine Mitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Since McConnell pulled his shit in 2016 it's a brand new game. This is what happens when republicans make the government work in new and interesting ways for partisan gain.
After this, I'm sure they will. Only democrat presidential nominees will be consider by a democrat senate in an election year and only republic presidential nominees will be considered by a republican senate. But this is just one of many new precedents that are being set in this administration, such as declaring national emergencies to fulfill campaign promises, making campaigning part of the offical duties of the president, dismissing a senate trial of impeached of the president without conducting a trial, and finally the acceptance that the president is above the law.It is the Republican Senate doing a flip flop, refusing to consider a democrat nominee 11 months before the election and considering a republican nominee weeks before an election. The Republicans should be excising at least a pretense of fairness.Lets cut the partisan bullshit shall we if the Democrats had controlled the Senate in 2016 Merrick Garland would be on the Supreme Court right now they would not have waited till after the election if they controlled the Senate today they would not take up any nomination by Trump. Both parties are more than willing to use the power they hold to their advantage when suits them and be hypocrites when they don't and it doesn't.
This is not even a question it's a proven fact. Obama and Dems squealed like stuck pigs when Republicans refused to allow Obama to fill that seat. Now they are attempting a complete flip flop. This is the Dem's MO, flip positions and rules when it favors Dems, flip back when it doesn't.
Right because Dems are fair if nothing else and would do the same if in our shoes. What a giant LOAD OF SHIT!
but rather the reshaping of the government into an autocracy where the balance of power between the branches of government has shifted to presidency.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who blocked Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court in 2016, reaffirmed on Tuesday that he would happily ram through confirmation of one of President Donald Trump’s nominees if a vacancy occurred in the final months of Trump’s term.
Now, his office is defending that statement, claiming it was not a reversal of McConnell’s previous comments on the matter.
McConnell claimed in 2016 that Garland’s nomination by President Barack Obama, following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, should not be brought to a vote because “the American people should have a say in the Court’s direction.” In February of that year, he released a statement vowing to keep the seat open so that the next president would be able to fill it.
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” he said. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”
McConnell’s office desperately tries to rewrite history on Merrick Garland
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) kept Garland from getting a vote, but now says he'd confirm a Trump nominee just before the 2020 election.archive.thinkprogress.org
They tape this stuff you know Mitch
As I said yesterday, Mitch will definitely move to confirm a nominee, nominated by the president. Of course it absolutely true, doing so is 180 degrees from his principled/unprincipled? stance of 2016. Anybody that thought principle or lack thereof would slow down the process for people like Mitch were living in a dream world. It is equally true that it will not be looked on favorably by the electorate, and will hand the Presidency to the Biden and deliver the Senate to the Democrats. Trump does not give a damn about the Senate, as on his side of the fence they are reduced to boot lickers, place holders, and turncoats to the cult of trump and were probably going to lose the Senate anyway, so they are perfect to take one for the cause, tough patooties.
Everyday, Trump does something that you bozos claim will hand victory to Biden and Democrats.
That won't turn out the way you hope.
It very welll might. Guess we'll have to wait till the early voting, in person voting and mail in / absentee voting is counted.
Does that include all the ballots marked D that are suddenly "found" in close precincts?
I have not seen these ballots. I would wait until I hear or see to become alarmed.