Biden talking about putting a hold on justices being confirmed during an election. “But in all that time, every nominee was greeted by committee members, every nominee got a committee hearing, every nominee got out of the committee even if they didn’t have sufficient votes to pass within the committee”.
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Tennessee’s two USA senators, however, have brushed aside Garland, historic precedent, their own past claim and the roughly two-thirds of the population who believe this nominee should have a hearing and an up-or-down vote. I said, and I quote, “If the president consults and cooperates with the Senate, or moderates his selections, then his nominees may enjoy my support as did Justice Kennedy and Justice Suter”. Only a small group of Republicans have so far indicated a willingness to hold courtesy meetings with Garland, and fewer still have said they want the traditional Senate Judiciary Committee traditional hearings on the nominee or a vote by the full Senate.
“Not much of the time“.
“Biden in his 1992 speech addressed that issue, saying that some people ‘may fret that this approach would leave the Court with only eight members for some time“.
Bold Nebraska is taking up the issue President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland for the U-S Supreme Court.
Vice President Joe Biden, who spent 36 years in the Senate, will enter the fray over President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee on Thursday, demanding that that his former colleagues not “spread this dysfunction” from Capitol Hill to the high court.
The speech that created the “Biden Rule” referenced by McConnell was one Biden made on the Senate floor on June 25, 1992, when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and George H.W. Bush was president.
Spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Don Stewart, accused Biden of forgetting that he is “the first vice president in US history to have filibustered” a Supreme Court nominee.
If lower courts’ conflicts are left unresolved, Biden will say Thursday, federal laws “will be constitutional in some parts of the country but unconstitutional in others”. In any case, both Thurmond’s block on Fortas and Biden’s speech took place in the summer just months before election day; neither man had contemplated blocking judicial nominations for the entire final year of a presidential term.
This nomination began in controversy with the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, on February 13, while on a hunting trip in West Texas.
Biden will use his speech Thursday to explain the context of those remarks. Judge Garland had received glowing recommendations from Republicans previously when President Obama was nominating replacements for Justices John Paul Stephens and David Souter.
“There is no Biden rule”, the vice president told a crowd of law students Thursday.
This week’s comments by Republican Sen.
“I think we have the responsibility to have a hearing, to have the conversation and to make a determination on the merit”, Moran said at the Dodge City Rotary Club on Monday, according to the Daily Globe.
” So now I hear all this talk about the ‘Biden Rule.’ It’s, frankly, ridiculous.
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At least 12 Senate Republicans have said they will meet with the Obama nominee.
