The nomination of any Republican to the seat left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia would be seen as an attempt by Obama to break the Senate GOP blockade of any of his choices. “If the president sends us a nominee, I think that it will be disposed of – as the vice president would have disposed of if that nominee had he been in the leadership … had Senator Schumer been in the leadership”.
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Republicans maintain this is about the principle of the president nominating in an election year.
Back on Beacon Hill, Kenneth Donnelly’s resolution states that the people of MA “deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court with nine justices”, and the U.S. Constitution does not limit the president’s power to appoint a nominee in an election year.
The president’s blog post comes as Senate Republicans have reportedly agreed that they will not be taking any action on whomever the White House nominates, believing that this right belongs to the person who will succeed Obama.
He has spent part of his career in private practice, and most of the rest in the office of the U.S. Solicitor General, arguing cases before the Supreme Court for both Republican and Democratic administrations.
If the Republicans do manage to delay Obama’s nomination, that could be a problem for the judicial process. But he says the notion of being considered for the highest court in the land is “beyond humbling” and he is “incredibly grateful” to be mentioned.
It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president. Sen. “Judges of the Supreme Court”.
Mr McConnell has refused to cave to pressure from Mr Obama, siding with Republican presidential candidates who have called for a vote to be delayed until 2017. The Senate has declined to confirm nearly 25 percent of all Supreme Court nominees, several times without ever voting.
If Obama does nominate him, Republicans would have to explain why they oppose someone from their own party. He opposes the prospect of even meeting Obama’s potential nominee, a hard-line stance Democrats hope to exploit during Grassley’s re-election fight later this year. They are not obligated to vote for anyone, but at least go through the motions.
Mari St. Martin, Sandoval’s communications director, said Wednesday that the governor hasn’t been contacted by the White House. Republican leaders said Tuesday that they would not even meet with Obama’s choice, no matter who it turns out to be.
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The state Supreme Court election is a little over five weeks away on April 5. But, I support his decision to withdraw his name from consideration for the Supreme Court vacancy.
