The president’s nominee, obviously, may face hard going in the Senate, where there has been a deplorable trend of ideological debate over judicial nominees. Despite strong opposition from the Republican party, Obama is adamant to fill up the Supreme Court opening in a historic decision that would reshape the high court.
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Although he supported her promotion to a federal appeals court three years ago, Iowa Sen.
Democrats say that is obstruction and accuse Republicans of not doing their constitutional duty.
President Barack Obama confronted Republican Senate leaders in the Oval Office Tuesday over their insistence that no Supreme Court nominee will be given consideration in the coming year.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said his 54-member GOP caucus was united against taking any step in the Senate’s “advise and consent” process. White House spokesman Josh Earnest admitted that a specific conversation about nominees would be “a pretty dramatic reversal in position for Mr. McConnell”. Reid described the Republicans as implacable and said there was nothing to suggest that they might budge.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that Obama is close to submitting to the US Senate a Supreme Court nomination to fill the vacancy left by Scalia.
But less than an hour after the session’s start, there was little evidence of progress toward reconciling the deeply entrenched positions on the vacancy. “They think they are going to wait and see what President Trump will do, I guess as far as the nomination is concerned”. After giving it much thought, I have determined that my benchmark for the next Supreme Court Justice will be Justice Scalia himself.
The White House declined to comment.
They must conduct open Judiciary Committee meetings so that the 11 Republican Senators, representing nine states, can be held accountable for denying the entire Senate-and the entire nation-the right to hear from a Supreme Court nominee, for the first time in history.
They have a Constitutional duty to consider the president’s nominations for the Supreme Court, they took an oath swearing they would uphold the Constitution, they raised their hands, swore to God that they would do that.
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“It’s not an issue of any particular candidate”, Grassley said in a statement to The Gazette at the time. What they conveniently and deceptively fail to acknowledge is that the will of the people was expressed more recently in 2014 with the decisive election of a Republican majority to the U.S. Senate.
