“First, on the president’s side, the Court ruled that the recess appointment power applies when the Senate leaves town for a break in the middle of an annual sitting, or a break at the end of each annual session”. It would be his third.
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“Now, Senator”, Wallace chastised, “when you say ‘lame duck, ‘ President Obama has been a lame duck since he was re-elected in 2012”, Wallace mockingly said. The president is a Democrat, and the Senate is controlled by Republicans.
Just as bad is all the Republican presidential candidate babble about precedence and ignoring appointments by presidents in their past year in office. Sri Srinivasan and Merrick Garland, both judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, have been mentioned as two possibilities.
Americans will choose a new president in the November 8 elections.
The U.S. Senate will return to Capitol Hill on February 22nd. But Democrats supporting Obama already are accusing Republicans of being obstructionists in the fight over the nomination and that could eventually force McConnell to at least allow consideration of a nominee even if Republicans ultimately defeat the choice.
The White House was prepared for the possibility of liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Stephen Breyer might retire, but not for a sudden conservative vacancy, the Associated Press reported.
The professors referenced Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s assertion that the Senate would not approve any of Obama’s nominees when discussing the likelihood of a nomination being confirmed. Yet, when it comes to President Barack Obama’s desire to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat, the GOP is seemingly putting off Reagan’s commitment to fulfilling the Constitution. And it approved all but one.
“There are a lot of strong feelings surrounding Antonin Scalia”, Oliver said. Full stop. And it’s the Senate’s duty to advise and consent, not on when to do it, but whom to appoint.
“I said, ‘Sheriff, what did you say?” Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), and Cory Booker, who could be one of three potential nominees from the senate.
“This will probably be left up to the next president”, Graham said. “While I nearly always disagreed with him, there is no question that his decisions had a powerful impact on our nation’s policies, laws, and politics”. And they were all members of the Senate in 1998, when that body voted 97-0 to confirm Judge Anthony Kennedy, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, to the Supreme Court of the United States. “At the outset, the Senate should discount the philosophy of the nominee”, he wrote. But legal scholar Jonathan Turley said this time could be different.
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Who will replace Justice Antonin Scalia is a campaign issue, as evidenced by Saturday’s Republican debate.
