Average SCOTUS Vacancy is 67 Days...

[Craig]

Mitch McConnell is seeking a 400 day vacancy...He should be removed for his failure to perform his Constitutional duties.

You all know he voted for Anthony Kennedy in the final year of Reagan's Presidency, right?


...McConnell plans to spend the next year blocking every potential Supreme Court nominee that Obama puts forward, it would be a major break from tradition -- since 1975, the average number of days from the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to a final Senate vote is 67, per a Congressional Research Service report.

It would also represent a break with McConnell's personal history: In 1988, he voted to confirm a Supreme Court nominee when it was a Republican president's final year in office.

On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...rt-antonin-scalia_us_56bfcde2e4b08ffac1259285

 

[Craig]

They are terrible, terrible people...

...Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who currently chairs the Judiciary Committee, was among those Saturday arguing that the Senate isn't obligated to confirm Supreme Court picks when it's a president's last year in office.

"The fact of the matter is that it’s been standard practice over the last 80 years to not confirm Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election year," the Iowa Republican said in a statement.

But Grassley, too, voted to confirm Kennedy under Reagan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...rt-antonin-scalia_us_56bfcde2e4b08ffac1259285

 

[Cerulean Mutt]

Where did they get the "no president has had a USSC nominee confirmed in an election year in the last 80 years" bullshit?

My God, the rank hypocrisy on display here boggles the imagination. They must be truly desperate to cling to any perceived advantage in power that they'll subvert the very constitution they claim to hold so dear.

 

[Craig]

Where did they get the "no president has had a USSC nominee confirmed in an election year in the last 80 years" bullshit?

My God, the rank hypocrisy on display here boggles the imagination. They must be truly desperate to cling to any perceived advantage in power that they'll subvert the very constitution they claim to hold so dear.

Even if, for the past 80 years, such a "rule" existed, so what?



...Igor Volsky, a staffer at the liberal Center for American Progress, responded with a tweet listing justices who have been confirmed in election years:

1. Oliver Ellsworth, 1796

2. Samuel Chase, 1796

3. William Johnson, 1804

4. Philip Barbour, 1836

5. Roger Taney, 1836

6. Melville Fuller, 1888

7. Lucius Lamar, 1888

8. George Shiras, 1892

9. Mahlon Pitney, 1912

10. John Clarke, 1916

11. Louis Brandeis, 1916

12. Benjamin Cardozo, 1932

13. Frank Murphy, 1940

14. Anthony Kennedy, 1988

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/13/10987692/14-supreme-court-confirmations

 

[Lukey]

It depends on who he nominates (how I will feel about this). If it's another communist like Kagen and Sotomayor, I don't see what harm will be done by ignoring the nomination.

 

[Addy]

 

[Addy]

 

[Lukey]

They are terrible, terrible people...

...Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who currently chairs the Judiciary Committee, was among those Saturday arguing that the Senate isn't obligated to confirm Supreme Court picks when it's a president's last year in office.

"The fact of the matter is that it’s been standard practice over the last 80 years to not confirm Supreme Court nominees during a presidential election year," the Iowa Republican said in a statement.

But Grassley, too, voted to confirm Kennedy under Reagan.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...rt-antonin-scalia_us_56bfcde2e4b08ffac1259285

Yes, and Kennedy wasn't a radical right wing candidate. Based on Obama's two picks so far, the idea that we should facilitate the replacement of Scalia with another Marxist is simply a nothing burger. It will go nowhere. But it will give the radicals on the left an issue to bitch about for the rest of their 15 minutes in the spotlight until Sanders bows out or loses the election.

 

[middleview]

Where did they get the "no president has had a USSC nominee confirmed in an election year in the last 80 years" bullshit?

My God, the rank hypocrisy on display here boggles the imagination. They must be truly desperate to cling to any perceived advantage in power that they'll subvert the very constitution they claim to hold so dear.

Has there been any doubt about the priorities of the republican party? Power at any cost. The $60 million they spent investigating the Clintons or the never ending investigation into Benghazi, the IRS and Fast and Furious....while never actually admitting they've found nothing at all worth investigating....because it was simply about scoring political points with their base.

 

[Craig]

Yes, and Kennedy wasn't a radical right wing candidate. Based on Obama's two picks so far, the idea that we should facilitate the replacement of Scalia with another Marxist is simply a nothing burger. It will go nowhere. But it will give the radicals on the left an issue to bitch about for the rest of their 15 minutes in the spotlight until Sanders bows out or loses the election.

Wait until a nomination comes forth.

Regardless...there remains nearly a year in Obama's Presidency. Grassley and McConnell are being irresponsible idiots.

 

[RickWA]

Mitch McConnell is seeking a 400 day vacancy...He should be removed for his failure to perform his Constitutional duties.

You all know he voted for Anthony Kennedy in the final year of Reagan's Presidency, right?


...McConnell plans to spend the next year blocking every potential Supreme Court nominee that Obama puts forward, it would be a major break from tradition -- since 1975, the average number of days from the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to a final Senate vote is 67, per a Congressional Research Service report.

It would also represent a break with McConnell's personal history: In 1988, he voted to confirm a Supreme Court nominee when it was a Republican president's final year in office.

On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...rt-antonin-scalia_us_56bfcde2e4b08ffac1259285

Average US presidents were capitalist, non- deconstructionists.

At this point, obstruction is "the highest form of patriotism".

 

[middleview]

Wait until a nomination comes forth.

Regardless...there remains nearly a year in Obama's Presidency. Grassley and McConnell are being irresponsible idiots.

McConnell stated, in 2008, that his number one priority was to keep Obama from winning a second term. We were seeing 750,000 jobs per month lost. Lehman had gone under. The economy lost 9% in just one year. We were in two wars with no real end in sight....and Mitch saw no reason to regard those issues as a higher priority than politics....he's an ass.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Mitch McConnell is seeking a 400 day vacancy...He should be removed for his failure to perform his Constitutional duties.

You all know he voted for Anthony Kennedy in the final year of Reagan's Presidency, right?


...McConnell plans to spend the next year blocking every potential Supreme Court nominee that Obama puts forward, it would be a major break from tradition -- since 1975, the average number of days from the nomination of a Supreme Court justice to a final Senate vote is 67, per a Congressional Research Service report.

It would also represent a break with McConnell's personal history: In 1988, he voted to confirm a Supreme Court nominee when it was a Republican president's final year in office.

On Feb. 3, 1988, McConnell and literally every other GOP senator voted to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. This was during President Ronald Reagan's last year in the White House, and at a time when Democrats controlled the Senate. Kennedy was confirmed 97-0, with three Democrats -- Joe Biden, Al Gore and Paul Simon -- not voting at all because, presumably, they were busy running for president that year...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...rt-antonin-scalia_us_56bfcde2e4b08ffac1259285

They truly are disgraceful swine who piss on our Constitution while piously claiming they respect it.

McConnell in particular. Obama has a clear constitutional right to fill the SCOTUS seat, and McConnell says screw the Constitution - the GOP will not consider ANY Obama nominee.

Pigs.

 

[Craig]

Average US presidents were capitalist, non- deconstructionists.

At this point, obstruction is "the highest form of patriotism".

That's your opinion. The people voted. There is no requirement a President match your outlook.

 

[RickWA]

That's your opinion. The people voted. There is no requirement a President match your outlook.

Thanks for sharing. I was of the opinion that all must conform to my preferences. :-/

 

[Lukey]

Wait until a nomination comes forth.

Regardless...there remains nearly a year in Obama's Presidency. Grassley and McConnell are being irresponsible idiots.

Not based on Obama's nominees so far. It's clear that they are out of the mainstream, and putting another like them in place of Scalia changes the composition of the court too much.

 

[Craig]

Thanks for sharing. I was of the opinion that all must conform to my preferences. :-/

I was of that opinion as well...

 

[Craig]

Not based on Obama's nominees so far. It's clear that they are out of the mainstream, and putting another like them in place of Scalia changes the composition of the court too much.

Talk to me about the names being floated...

Was Scalia "mainstream"?

 

[Lukey]

He doesn't have a right to fill a vacancy, only to nominate a candidate. Congress has the "right" to fill the vacancy by confirming the nominee.

 

[RickWA]

I was of that opinion as well...

Well, in any case - true patriots and those who embrace liberty will continue to resist and obstruct Obama's "fundamental transformation". This includes rejecting his Marxist, social engineering SCOTUS nominees.