President Barack Obama has finally nominated Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court.
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He noted that a handful of Republican senators have said they would at least meet with Garland after they “saw how stellar the nominee is”.
Limbaugh went on to speculate that the Obama administration must have warned Garland he was never really going to become the next Supreme Court justice, but he would get a glorious “White House moment” out of the deal and nothing more.
“I continue to hope that the Senate will be able to put election year gamesmanship aside, and do the right thing by not unfairly holding up Judge Garland’s confirmation”. Some have said that Garland is as qualified as any candidate and that Senate Republicans have no excuse to not let him through.
“I am pleased to see that many more of my Republican colleagues are now indicating a willingness to sit down and meet with Judge Garland”.
A total of 19 Justice have been appointed during presidential election years by 13 standing presidents – almost 1/3 of the 40 presidents who have been presented with the opportunity to nominate justices.
Former federal prosecutor Conner Eldridge, the Democrat challenging Boozman this fall, criticized the incumbent for his stance and urged the Senate to consider Garland.
“Judge Merrick Garland seems like a good man”, Long, a lawyer from Manhattan, said in a statement. Is the Senate abdicating its constitutional responsibility?
“If (the Republican senators) really do believe in the American people and that the voters should decide, I think they should give the voters the information”.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., also met with Garland later Thursday afternoon.
In a speech in the White House Rose Garden, Obama praised Garland, a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law School and an appointee of president Bill Clinton as “one of America sharpest legal minds” . “So, if a majority of senators on the judiciary committee say we want to have a hearing, then they’ll have a hearing”, Little said. Hatch is said to have called Garland a “consensus nominee” for the Supreme Court back in 2010 when the president interviewed Garland for the court, but chose Elena Kagan instead.
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Four of the court’s justices were nominated by Republican presidents: Anthony Kennedy (Reagan), Clarence Thomas (George H.W. Bush), Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito (George W. Bush). It is the incubator not only of many constitutionally important cases that ultimately are decided by the Supreme Court, but the proving ground for many appellate judges who aspire to join the Supreme Court.
