He received Republican votes, including from McCain, in 1997 to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, is calling for the Senate to have a confirmation hearing on Garland’s nomination.
President Barack Obama nominated Judge Garland almost a month ago to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. While some Republican senators have met with Garland, Senate leaders say they’re holding firm in their stance. “Judge Garland should receive the fair consideration the American people expect”.
In a recent interview, Lankford said he would take the opportunity of meeting with Garland to thank him for his service to Oklahoma.
Christopher said that while she agrees with the GOP’s refusal to hold hearings on Garland, when it comes to backing candidates in November, “That’s not going to be my only thing, like boom, I’m not going to vote for them”. “That’s the position. So, the question should have been, ‘Should the McConnell-led Senate ignore history, ignore the Constitution and refuse to consider this fine nominee?'” President Obama has made his Supreme Court nomination.
“It is uniformly viewed by not just Democrats but also Republicans … that he (Garland) is as good of a judge as we have in this country right now”, said Obama, a former law professor at the school. When I say better future, we are struggling with the little amount of money my husband is getting for the whole family.
On the other side, you have a Senate Democratic minority doing everything possible to make Merrick Garland’s nomination a political issue in a presidential election year.
Following a breakfast meeting with Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland Tuesday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Grassley insists “nothing has changed” about his decision to block Garland from getting a confirmation hearing – even though Grassley is under heavy pressure back home, and in Washington, to change his mind. Garcia said she would be eager to work “starting right now” if she becomes legally able to do so.
“We have plenty of precedent in both parties on not acting on nominations, that’s true”, Ornstein said.
McConnell and Grassley have draped themselves around Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution that says the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme court”. “.With Senator McCain just following that partisan track, it really dovetails with (the message) Congresswoman Kirkpatrick is developing, which is that he has lost touch with who he is”.
In an op-ed Portman referred to Scalia as a respected jurist and the acknowledged intellectual leader of the four conservative justices on a balanced Supreme Court, with four conservative and four liberal justices and a swing vote that has often determined the outcome.
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“The bottom line here is the hypocrisy of her basic position”, Hassan said.
