A 5-4 Supreme Court eventually agreed with the three-judge panel in District of Columbia v. Heller, the first decision in American history to hold that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
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“I can’t imagine that a Republican-majority Senate, even if it were soon to be a minority, would want to confirm a judge who would move the court dramatically to the left”, McConnell said on “Fox News Sunday”.
Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich said they would not back a Garland confirmation, though Kasich has suggested Senate Republican leaders should at least meet with him.
Schumer says some Republicans aren’t sure they want to just ignore the Garland nomination. And I am telling everybody that’s watching this, the senators aren’t going to allow that. “Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees a vote”. The principle involved here, Chuck, when an election is underway, as Joe Biden was talking in 1992, an election’s underway, the American people are about to weigh in on who’s going to be the president.
The Senate is scheduled to be on recess for the next two weeks, which would allow Obama to appoint Garland to the seat left vacant by the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia. without Senate action.
The main reason hearings should be held for anyone President Obama nominates is because it is the Senate’s constitutional duty.
At show’s end, Todd told the political panel, “I think there’s more of a chance for hearings than you realize, but it’s in the hands of the political- uh, what- the political standing of Chuck Grassley in the next six weeks”.
The leader has said he won’t meet with Judge Garland, although a handful of other Republican senators have agreed to meet with him, and leading Democrats say Mr. McConnell eventually will crack under public pressure in a tough election year. So they’re saying we’re quite content to have judicial nominations made by Mr. Trump whose qualifications for doing so are foggy.
“Even though Barack Obama calls him a moderate he’s opposed by the NRA”, he said, adding the National Federation of Independent Business also opposes Garland and the New York Times has said he would make the court more liberal.
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough in an interview on ABC News’ This Week said he has seen “good forward momentum” with various GOP lawmakers agreeing to hold meetings with Garland. These senators have forgotten that the Supreme Court is too critical to the rule of law for the Senate to put partisanship above governing.
As I stood in the Rose Garden on Wednesday morning listening to Obama nominate Garland, I was struck by the gravity of the moment. Since 1900 in a lame duck session, there have been six they’ve all been approved.
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CNN’s Dana Bash asked McConnell if he’s anxious having Trump at the top of the ballot will hurt Senate Republicans in those statewide races. “And that next president ought to have this appointment, which will affect the Supreme Court for probably a quarter of a century”.
