The letter encourages President Obama to exercise his constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor to the late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and encourages the Senate to fulfill its constitutional role and grant that nominee fair consideration and a full Senate floor vote.
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Grassley revisited the lengthy 1992 speech delivered by Vice President Biden, then a senator chairing the Judiciary Committee, in which he declared his intention not to move forward with any nominee in that presidential election year should a vacancy arise.
Stay tuned for more fireworks as Obama ramps up his campaign to secure a hearing in the Senate for his nominee, and his conservative opponents dig for evidence that will nail his choice as an activist judge.
“Ayotte joined Trump and party bosses in refusing to consider any nominee, ignoring the Constitution”, the narrator says. Republicans solidified their position after their majority leader, Sen.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, and Sen. And after stating firmly that the Republican obstruction would hold, he demanded that Democrats and the White House stop trying to make Republicans pay a political price for said obstruction.
-Merrick Garland, chief judge on the same court. He denounced any suggestion the White House’s selection process was “guided by the raw political calculation of what they think will exert the most political pressure on me”.
“Why all the outrage about a hearing?”
“If you want to stop extremism in your party, you can start by showing the American people that they you respect the President of the United State and the Constitution enough to do your job, right here, in the United States Senate”, concluded the Senator yesterday, March 9.
There will be no hearing for a Supreme Court nominee until 2017. But he is highly regarded by Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals.
For more than a year, the Republican Chairman of the Banking Committee hasn’t held a single vote on any of the sixteen Presidential nominees sitting on his desk, not even nominees who are critical to maintaining the financial stability of this country or the ones who are responsible for choking off the flow of money to ISIS. Mitch McConnell, had a closed-door meeting with GOP members of the Judiciary Committee, during which all 11 signed a leader pledging to block any hearings on an Obama nominee. Sen.
Complaining of the broken appropriations process under Democrats, also in 2014, Blunt said: “We have lost touch with the normal order of things”.
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Beneath the senators’ mostly calm citations of the Constitution and history, of judicial precedent and public consequences of a long vacancy, rhetorical fingers are pointed like missiles at the other side, with Republicans blaming Democrats and vice versa. “[In] more than a decade of experience in the U.S. Solicitor General’s office, Millett argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court, the second-most ever for a female lawyer”, reported Rolling Stone. “That’s precisely the kind of interpretive approach that they have vehemently rejected and that they accuse liberals of engaging in all the time”, Obama said.
