For the extra thick numbskulls out there, a repeat:
Current Senate rules do not allow the nuclear option for US Supreme Court justices. Those rules would have to be changed. This rule has never been applied to Supreme Court nominations in the history of our country.
We are a nation of precedents. Changing laws for political expediency is what destroyed Europe. It's the sort of thing which Judge Sotomayor is all about.
This sort of shit is exactly why I say pseudocons remind me of the ******* 60s and 70s liberals.
Wrong, check Eisenhower who did it several times.
New Jersey judge
William J. Brennan was appointed to the Supreme Court by President
Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 by a recess appointment. This was done in part with an eye on the presidential campaign that year; Eisenhower was running for reelection, and his advisors thought it would be politically advantageous to place a northeastern
Catholic on the court. Brennan was promptly confirmed when the Senate came back into session. Eisenhower, in a recess appointment, designated
Charles W. Yost as
United States Ambassador to Syria.
[1] Eisenhower made two other recess appointments, Chief Justice
Earl Warren and Associate Justice
Potter Stewart
Recess appointment - Wikipedia