Judge Merrick Garland, left, President Barack Obama’s choice to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, meets with Sen.
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Republicans want to wait until after the November elections, in hopes that a Republican will become President and nominate a conservative justice.
Not only would Bennet be inclined to back a nomination from a Democratic White House, but Bennet briefly worked for Garland at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration on cases related to encryption, asset forfeiture and use of deadly force, according to a former Justice official. But the Democrats who are trying to force Senate Republicans to confirm Supreme Court nominee Merrick B. Garland are now confronting increasingly dismal odds of success a month after his nomination.
Garland is widely regarded and viewed as a centrist jurist in his rulings. If you look historically, most voters don’t vote for president on the basis of whom the President is going to appoint to the Supreme Court. Chuck Grassley, the Iowa Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, had breakfast with Garland in the Capitol to tell him the committee would not hold hearings to consider his nomination.
Democrats are pushing, so far unsuccessfully, to force Republicans in the Senate to holding hearings on the nomination and then vote on it. “Risch and his colleagues in the Senate Republican Conference aren’t”. “The Constitution says the President has a four year term”.
In a recent interview, Lankford said he would take the opportunity of meeting with Garland to thank him for his service to Oklahoma. As Republicans say their refusal to hold confirmation hearings is a matter of principle, I asked my Republican friend Bentley what the principle is.
Crapo and Risch said Idaho’s federal judgeship and the Supreme Court vacancy shouldn’t be compared.
“The people of OH appreciate Senator Portman’s principled stand against President Obama’s attempt to cement a liberal majority on the Supreme Court that will last for decades”, said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network. That includes U.S. Sen.
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In a brief urging the court to strike down the executive orders, McConnell and other Republican lawmakers called the executive actions “an explicit effort to circumvent the legislative process”. She has said, “The idea that we should not do this in an election year is just something that’s been made up for partisan reasons”.
