Let?s piss off the left and move forward w SCOTUS pick
- Thread starter lowell
- Start date
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,529
- 497
- 83
- 74
Democrats in the Senate will meet today to review their options. They are furious that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the Senate would vote on a Trump nominee, despite the presidential election just weeks away.
McConnell in 2016 refused to act on President Barack Obama?s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in February of that year. McConnell said then that voters should have a voice in choosing the next justice.
He says the difference now is that Republicans control both the White House and Senate, unlike four years ago, and that voters intended any openings be filled. Still, some Republican senators have expressed concern about whether to proceed because of the 2016 precedent.
The pitched political battle over Ginsburg?s replacement raged even as tributes to the pathbreaking justice ? just the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court ? continued.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...rgs-supreme-court-seat/ar-BB19d1Yz?li=BBnb7Kz
Robert Barnes 3 hrs ago
McConnell in 2016 refused to act on President Barack Obama?s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, after conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in February of that year. McConnell said then that voters should have a voice in choosing the next justice.
He says the difference now is that Republicans control both the White House and Senate, unlike four years ago, and that voters intended any openings be filled. Still, some Republican senators have expressed concern about whether to proceed because of the 2016 precedent.
The pitched political battle over Ginsburg?s replacement raged even as tributes to the pathbreaking justice ? just the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court ? continued.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...rgs-supreme-court-seat/ar-BB19d1Yz?li=BBnb7Kz
Robert Barnes 3 hrs ago
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,529
- 497
- 83
- 74
a majority vote appointment by the citizens of The United States
seems like the Democratic Way....Go Team!
seems like the Democratic Way....Go Team!
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,529
- 497
- 83
- 74
Did Mitch McConnell Say One of His Proudest Moments Was Telling Obama ?You Will Not Fill This Supreme Court Vacancy??
A meme contrasted disparate statements by GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate's duty to confirm Supreme Court nominees.
DAVID EMERY
PUBLISHED 2 FEBRUARY 2017
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mitch-mcconnell-one-of-my-proudest-moments/
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.
In an interview with CNN, McConnell stated that he did not expect the Senate to confirm an Obama nominee even if Democrat Hillary Clinton was elected president or Democrats won a Senate majority:
I can?t imagine that a Republican majority Congress in a lame duck session after the American people have spoken would want to confirm a nominee opposed by the NRA, the NFIB, and the New York Times says would move the court dramatically to the left. This nomination ought to be made by the next president.
Six months later, as reported by the Washington Post, McConnell boasted to constituents at a 6 August 2016 political event in his home state of Kentucky about successfully blocking the nomination of Merrick Garland :
?One of my proudest moments was when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said, ?Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy,?? he said to cheers at the annual Fancy Farm Picnic.
Obama?s nomination of Merrick Garland expired when the 114th Congress ended its session on 3 January 2017. It was the longest period of time a Supreme Court appointment remained before the Senate in U.S. history.
Eleven days after President Trump?s inauguration on 20 January 2017, he nominated U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Neil Gorsuch to fill Scalia?s vacancy. Democratic Senators vowed a fight, insisting for starters on keeping the rule that a majority of 60 votes be required for confirmation (which would mean that at least eight Democrats would have to vote ?yea?), and threatening a filibuster.
Mitch McConnell, having been instrumental in blocking a previous Supreme Court nominee for the better part of a year, responded as follows:
I notice my counterpart, Senator Schumer, announced yesterday that their goal was to apparently never fill the Supreme Court vacancy. That?s kind of an expansion of the Biden rule. You recall the Biden rule, in 1992, was the Senate would not confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of a presidential election year, which was my view last year. Senator Schumer said in the second Bush administration that they would not confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the last 18 months of President Bush 43?s tenure. Apparently there?s yet a new standard now, which is to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee at all. I think that?s something the American people simply will not tolerate and we?ll be looking forward to receiving a Supreme Court nomination and moving forward on it.
McConnell: ?The American people simply will not tolerate? Democrats blocking Trump?s SCOTUS nominee https://t.co/9b6sqFrQTM
? CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2017
A meme contrasted disparate statements by GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on the Senate's duty to confirm Supreme Court nominees.
DAVID EMERY
PUBLISHED 2 FEBRUARY 2017
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mitch-mcconnell-one-of-my-proudest-moments/
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.
In an interview with CNN, McConnell stated that he did not expect the Senate to confirm an Obama nominee even if Democrat Hillary Clinton was elected president or Democrats won a Senate majority:
I can?t imagine that a Republican majority Congress in a lame duck session after the American people have spoken would want to confirm a nominee opposed by the NRA, the NFIB, and the New York Times says would move the court dramatically to the left. This nomination ought to be made by the next president.
Six months later, as reported by the Washington Post, McConnell boasted to constituents at a 6 August 2016 political event in his home state of Kentucky about successfully blocking the nomination of Merrick Garland :
?One of my proudest moments was when I looked at Barack Obama in the eye and I said, ?Mr. President, you will not fill this Supreme Court vacancy,?? he said to cheers at the annual Fancy Farm Picnic.
Obama?s nomination of Merrick Garland expired when the 114th Congress ended its session on 3 January 2017. It was the longest period of time a Supreme Court appointment remained before the Senate in U.S. history.
Eleven days after President Trump?s inauguration on 20 January 2017, he nominated U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge Neil Gorsuch to fill Scalia?s vacancy. Democratic Senators vowed a fight, insisting for starters on keeping the rule that a majority of 60 votes be required for confirmation (which would mean that at least eight Democrats would have to vote ?yea?), and threatening a filibuster.
Mitch McConnell, having been instrumental in blocking a previous Supreme Court nominee for the better part of a year, responded as follows:
I notice my counterpart, Senator Schumer, announced yesterday that their goal was to apparently never fill the Supreme Court vacancy. That?s kind of an expansion of the Biden rule. You recall the Biden rule, in 1992, was the Senate would not confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of a presidential election year, which was my view last year. Senator Schumer said in the second Bush administration that they would not confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the last 18 months of President Bush 43?s tenure. Apparently there?s yet a new standard now, which is to not confirm a Supreme Court nominee at all. I think that?s something the American people simply will not tolerate and we?ll be looking forward to receiving a Supreme Court nomination and moving forward on it.
McConnell: ?The American people simply will not tolerate? Democrats blocking Trump?s SCOTUS nominee https://t.co/9b6sqFrQTM
? CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 4, 2017
<iframe width="450" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xUuVhGHqZoc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>++++
<iframe width="450" height="350" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_i_9bl7xFWY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>++++
Letting a weak, ineffective, incompetent president nominate an important position seems like a terrible decision that the American people will not support.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Really, so what does Joe Biden have that EXCITES you to VOTE for him?
Senile?
The way he acts with children?
His Plagiarism?
47 years in the Federal Government?
His Quid Pro Quo?
His ME TOO problem?
opcorn2 Which, you know, thing is it?:0corn
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,529
- 497
- 83
- 74
Right
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ANOTHER ONE ! 🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/MgXM5SMaPn">pic.twitter.com/MgXM5SMaPn</a></p>— ozzy (@Ozzyonqueen) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ozzyonqueen/status/1307184926916325377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,529
- 497
- 83
- 74
