In his blog post earlier Wednesday on the legal site SCOTUSblog, Obama tried to quell conservative concerns that he would choose an unabashed liberal who would upend the court’s balance.
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“Rank partisanship should not trump how we have always treated nominees”, Mr Leahy, the longest serving member of the US Senate, said.
“The court needs nine justices to function properly”. “To the senator from Iowa…I stress, I plead: ‘Don’t continue down this path. Reject this record-setting obstruction and simply just do your job”. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
Earlier Thursday, Democratic Leader Sen.
“Guess they believe that the American people will forget about this vacancy”. Grassley began his senate speech today by accusing Reid of doing “tremendous damage” to the U.S. Senate when he was majority leader.
Obama’s scuffle with Senate Republicans has reverberated on the presidential campaign trail, with growing prospects that the next president will take office without a Scalia replacement on the court.
In Tuesday’s discussion at Georgetown University Law Center, Alito sidestepped the current brouhaha over whether the Senate should give consideration to any new Supreme Court justice President Obama may nominate in the final year of his presidency.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined during a briefing to confirm whether Sandoval was on Obama’s list of potential nominees.
“Sandoval’s checkered history on reproductive freedom should raise some serious flags – it certainly has for us”, NARAL Pro-Choice America said in a statement. Rob Portman of Ohio, Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin as potential Republican converts to at least convening hearings on a Supreme Court nominee. He stepped down from a lifetime appointment to the federal bench to run for governor in 2010.
“I will tell you what”.
Private conversations aside, few signs have appeared that Republicans are planning to back off their position.
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“Why are Senate Republicans so adamant about not fulfilling their constitutional responsibility?” But scheduling conflicts barred a session this week. It’s the kind of life experience earned outside the classroom and the courtroom; experience that suggests he or she views the law not only as an intellectual exercise, but also grasps the way it affects the daily reality of people’s lives in a big, complicated democracy, and in rapidly changing times. “To say, ‘We’re never going to interview anyone he names, and we’re not going to have a hearing on the subject, ‘ … that flies in the face of what the intention was of Congress”.
