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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
Interesting that prominant GOP politicians are being called out for earlier saying that a SCOTUS seat should NOT filled in an election year. McConnel and Graham are both on the record saying this when they held up Obama's nominee for 9 months before the 2016 election. Graham even said that they should bring his own words up to him and he said to call him a hypocrite if he ever went back on this word.
So exactly that is happening now. And all the reasons are bring given, such as the Democrats didn't play fair, etc., so it's only fair . . .
What a cesspool DC has become in the last couple decades! I guess it maybe has been tht for a much longer time, but no one now tries to even hide it. (except to blame the mess on someone else, like Adam is prone to do)
I continue to think the best course of action is for Trump to take the higher road in this, because the Nuclear-Machiavellian option may backfire any way as the GOP having the number of Senate votes appears risky at best. As said in the first post, I think he would gain respect and votes this way, and could then just do the nomination after the November vote.
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The Republicans are following the so-called "Biden Rule," as explained by Senator Barrasso:
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“We were following the ‘Joe Biden rule.’ He was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. And he said when there is a Senate of one party and a White House of another” the panel would not consider a high court pick in an election year,” Mr Barrasso claimed.
“He said this to President George Hebert Walker Bush, he said if there is a vacancy in the final year, we will not confirm,” he said of the one-term GOP president. “And that’s what we did with Merrick Garland.”
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Pres. Obama nominated Merrick Garland during an election year. That was his duty. Pres. Trump will also nominate a Judge during an election year. That is his duty.
As with Obama's appointee, it is up to the Senate to decide what to do. We watched the smear job they pulled on Kavanaugh. These Democrats are viciously dishonest. Can't blame that on Trump.
This just proves how the Democrats can never be trusted with power. When Pres. Clinton nominated Ruth Bader Ginsberg, where was the outrage? She replaced an excellent Jurist named Byron White. He was one of two to dissent Roe v. Wade. RBG flipped the court, but since conservatives behave themselves, it was a peaceful, though painful, transition. Why won't Democrats do the same?
Or do we now succumb to mob rule?