Within hours of Scalia’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the top Republican in Congress, declared that Scalia’s seat on the bench should remain open until the next election, and he wouldn’t even consider starting the vetting process until Obama leaves office.
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“You really have to look at the particular issue involved and the position the justices have taken on the issue in order to predict what the court might do with a particular case”, Cutting said.
Perkins said the survey “tells us that the American people have a sobering perspective following the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia”.
Mr. President, it’s because they want to make this as political as possible. He regularly carried his twin children’s baby socks to Supreme Court arguments and pulled them from his pocket at his investiture on the appeals court, longtime legal affairs writer Tony Mauro reported in 2013.
“There’s a reason for having this tradition of not nominating somebody in the middle of a presidential election, because it gets so political”.
In the six years since Obama has appointed two Justices, the American people’s disapproval of the Supreme Court jumped from 28 percent disapproval in 2009, to 50 percent disapproval in 2015.
If a nominee reaches, but is stalled in committee, Democrats could file a “motion to discharge”. Originalists try to decipher exactly what the Founding Fathers were thinking those words meant at the time they were written. “We’ve already had South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa”.
Presidents facing an unfavorable situation in the Senate – specifically, lame-duck presidents sending a nomination to a Senate controlled by the opposition party – are likely acutely aware of the increased risk their nominations will be refused confirmation.
Members of the Supreme Court have gathered to bid farewell to their recently deceased colleague, Justice Antonin Scalia.
When challenged about that brazen obstructionism, GOP senators note that precedent is on their side: No Supreme Court justice has ever been nominated in the final year of a president’s term. But it’s their duty to let a nominee have a hearing. I think that certainly we have some great people.
The writers of the U.S. Constitution put safeguards into our system of government including a separation of power that is created to prevent the development of tyranny.
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Besides O’Connor and the current triumvirate of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the only other woman to be nominated was Harriet Miers, whose nomination to succeed O’Connor by President George W. Bush was withdrawn under fire. Where I work, if you refuse to complete the responsibilities of your job, my employer would find someone who will. He served two years in Vietnam as an infantry officer and worked three years as a U.S. Civil Service employee.
