“The President in his previous year is entitled to make these appointments, and I feel very strongly that he should”. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who is facing a tough re-election fight, told CNN.
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As noted in the excerpt, including the upcoming service on Saturday, the president or VP will have attended only four of the last seven funerals for a justice. Court police will carry the flag-draped coffin across the plaza, up the steps, through the enormous bas-relief bronze doors and into the columned Great Hall.
“It might be just as well not to have a hearing that… might mislead the American people into thinking this is just about the qualifications of the candidate”, Sen. Pat Toomey supports the delay tactic.
It wasn’t only Republicans who took issue.
The White House turned up the heat on the Republican-led Senate to allow fair hearings and a timely vote on Obama’s impending selection to fill the court vacancy left by Saturday’s death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. The president is obviously aware of Senate Republicans’ plans for a total blockade against nominee, regardless of merit, so Obama took some time to remind GOP lawmakers about the constitutional process.
“Should the Senate absolutely make every effort to block a liberal justice appointee from President Obama?”. Rob Portman and New Hampshire Sen. For such voters, obviously, Republicans in the Senate and the campaign trail can’t possibly be anti-Obama enough.
Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said chances of Senate approval were slim but added that Obama should “use this opportunity to put the will of the people ahead of advancing a liberal agenda” on the high court.
You can nearly hear GOP senators laughing at a distance.
They said they already had gathered some 500,000 petition signatures opposing McConnell’s stance. Democrats believe that a larger share of independent voters will start siding with the White House’s choice – putting pressure on swing-state Republicans and forcing them to revolt. “I think it is possible to get someone confirmed”. “But that doesn’t necessarily mean that that ends up in a vote”. The highest court in the land. They’re bigger than any one party. The candidates in the SC debate have furnished the Democrats with splendid sound-bite material, not merely by disapproving of Obama’s performance as president but by implying that he has somehow forfeited his right to act as the president at all for his final year.
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Sri Srinivasan and Patricia Millett, two members of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and potential nominees for Obama to pick to replace Scalia, were seen in the line of those paying their respects. “And it’s an important position and one we care about as a nation, as a people”.
