In his search for a replacement for the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, President Barack Obama is focusing on a small group of appellate court judges with largely traditional credentials and a history of bipartisan backing.
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Showing just how easy Republicans are going to make 2016 ads for Democrats, the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Center (DPCC) put out a video today showing exactly what hypocritical slimeballs Republicans are being in order to justify their absurd refusal to do their jobs and confirm an Obama Supreme Court nominee.
Ron Johnson of Wisconsin says the Senate might consider filling a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court if the president were a Republican.
A 54 percent majority said they believe Obama would nominate a liberal justice and his nominee would shift the court’s ideological balance.
Susan Watts/New York Daily News New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wants Senate to give full consideration to President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Several of Grassley’s Republican colleagues also referred to Biden’s speech for precedent, a move that Democratic Senator Al Franken called “insulting”, noting that the comments were made on the last day of the supreme court term when justices sometimes elect to step down.
-Judge Sri Srinivasan of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Grassley stood his ground Thursday at a meeting of his committee, accusing Democrats of “infecting the process” with politics and adding, “Everybody knows any nominee submitted in the middle of this presidential campaign isn’t getting confirmed”.
“So in terms of who I select, I’m going to do my job”, Obama said.
Traveling to Texas on Friday, the White House zeroed in on home state Senator John Cornyn and his pledge to treat Obama’s nominee like a “pinata”.
The judges’ inclusion on the short list was first reported by National Public Radio, which also named Judge Jane Kelly of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals as a finalist being interviewed by the president. Kelly, an Obama classmate at Harvard Law School, is based in Iowa and previously served as a federal public defender there.
He denounced the idea that the White House selection process was “guided by the raw political calculation of what they think will exert the most political pressure on me”.
But Hatch said he opposed acting even on Garland.
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The ranking Democrat on Senate Judiciary, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, dismissed Grassley’s defense, saying that denying a hearing on a Supreme Court nomination would be unprecedented.
