“The stakes are too high,” Republicans claim, “so we intend to disrupt the Constitutional procedure for naming a new Supreme Court Justice,”
Ohhh. Okay, it’s one of those, change-the-rules-or-I’m-taking-my-ball-and-going-home deals.
This is neither a patriotic response nor even an adult one.
I remember. I was trying to pick the stupidest example I could think of that you could possibly turn into a false equivalency. But now I think my comment was just dumb.
Oh well. Scalia is dead.
HAHA! Funny!
No. Fuck off.
When has the GOP every talked of consensus when they have the upper hand in matters? The agenda of conservative legislators is to delegitimize any and all opposition to their programs regardless of popular will or necessity. Voting by the electorate is only valid when it concurs with their viewpoints.
Oh, and when will he hear about Saclia’s death being god’s will during Obama’s tenure?
I posted this on another website, but I think it is an important point. In short,
Nixon placed four justices on the Supreme Court, even though he had a shortened term (ahem).
Ford placed another justice.
Carter struck out – nobody died or retired.
Reagan appointed four more justices to the SC.
GHW Bush appointed two more justices to the SC.
That was 11 in a row for Republicans. It is a bit rich to suggest that Obama getting to seat three justices is just too much to bear.
Wow, when you put it that way, we really dodged a bullet with Souter.
I think the Democratic Party needs to make it to clear to Mitch McConnell that if the GOP blocks the President from nominating a Supreme Court Justice to replace Scalia, then the next Republican President will find they are not allowed to appoint a Supreme Court Justice AT ALL, that the Democrats will pull out all the stops to prevent the GOP from appointing even one Supreme Court Justice until a Democratic President has his or her turn to make the appointment they denied to President Obama.
it would be kind of hilarious if the president nominated someone exactly to their liking but who was also a total stinker, whose behavior illustrated exactly how extreme their views are, to see how they’d react, and then withdrew the nomination if they took the bait.
Without pay
I love her but she’s too old. Don’t nominate anyone over 55.
Some people (can I really call hem that) are still trying to make Obama a one-term president. They’ll still be trying that three presidents from now.
bright side. they can’t use SCOTUS to steal the election in November like they did in 2000.
it wasn’t just scalia that died. it was the conservative court. that’s the strident, keening wail you hear in the republican’s mourning. it’s the end of the “reagan democrat” era on the court.
What about Ruth Bader Ginsburg? There is very little chance that she will serve out the next President’s term. What if the next President turns out to be a Republican? How could she, in good conscience, take the chance?
The model of selflessness in this regard was Sandra Day O’Connor, who explicitly stated that she resigned so that Bush would appoint her replacement. She said she was worried about the kind of judges a Democrat would appoint. (She was herself a Reagan appointee, of course.)
I wish RBG had some of this wisdom. Instead she let her ego get in the way, and has endangered everything from Roe v. Wade to civil rights, just because she thinks of herself as irreplaceable. Guess what? Maybe she IS irreplaceable. But the instant she leaves the court, her entire legacy can be overturned in a heartbeat by a Republican-appointed successor.
Come on, take a page from Hollywood here. Don’t nominate anyone over 25.
Excellent point.
GOP 2016ers All Agree: No Scalia Successor Until Obama Leaves Office!
Eggselent…
Since the Republicans have never acknowledged the legitimacy of Obama’s Presidency, why now, when it really matters in Constitutional terms, would they suddenly admit he’s the Chief Exec?
This should made clear in every discussion. The GOP plan to block the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice is nothing more than another birther argument. How else to explain that a President doesn’t get to do his job?
Actually, Sandra Day O’Connor stated later that she resigned from the bench because of her husband’s Alzhimers and, had she known he would only live a year, she wouldn’t have resigned.
Bush continues his war with the English language: ““Of course, the President, by the way, has every right to nominate Supreme Court justices. I’m an Article 2 guy in the Constitution.”
Just a thought experiment: How fast would the Republican tune change if Obama nominated Ted Cruz? It be very interesting to watch, but not worth risking the future of nation.