Obama has responsibly done his job by nominating Garland, a respected appellate court judge with a clear record and a reputation for building consensus.
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Judge Garland led the investigation and prosecution that followed the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which ultimately led to the conviction of Timothy McVeigh.
Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin said, “I am pleased that the President has done his job and offered a nominee with strong federal judicial experience”.
Grassley, on a conference call with Iowa reporters, reiterated the Senate Republicans’ stand that the next president should choose who should fill the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. By refusing to even consider this nomination, Republicans are not just disrespecting Judge Garland and President Obama, they are disrespecting the Constitution.
Coats believed in 1997 that Garland was qualified for the circuit court, said spokesman Matt Lahr.
“This the greatest honor of my life”, Garland said during his nomination. That is the job, indeed the duty, of the Senate.
“You have four Supreme Court judgeships coming up, and that would mean they would take over, that would mean for 50 years, probably, this country will never be the same”, Trump said.
With the absence of Scalia, the eight remaining justices are evenly divided, a fact which could change the ruling of contentious issues, including Obama’s Clean Power Plan and executive actions on immigration, in the coming months.
Rutledge said: “In the midst of a highly contested presidential election, Americans deserve their chance to weigh in on the appropriate direction for the [Supreme] Court”.
“Frankly, the Republican Party, which says they won’t meet with anyone now, which I think is a mistake”, Broderick said.
Coats said in a statement that “the right thing to do is to give the American people a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Coincidentally, it wasn’t long ago that then Delaware Senator Joe Biden, now Vice President, also argued that any Supreme Court nomination should wait until after an upcoming-election”. “This is not about Judge Garland”. Grassley became chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2015.
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“I’ve seen up close, the devastation that can happen when someone abandons the justice system as a way of resolving grievances and instead takes matters into his own hands”, Garland said as he stood next to the President Wednesday.
