GrowlTowel said:
fubar said:
GrowlTowel said:
fubar said:
You might ought to research the Republican Senate and Obama's judicial nominees a little bit better.
You can start with Merrick Garland.
Or the Biden Rule. Should Darth Vader Ginsburg die in 2020 and Trump get another pick, then you can ***** about Garland. Until then, don't make rules if you do not want them enforced.
Can you show me where the "Biden Rule" was codified?
I'll wait patiently.
Until then, I'll assume that you think rifle has made some salient point of sorts. Which is ridiculous, but go ahead and roll with that.
Ask him. Summer 1992.
Butt hurt isn't a defense.
Biden said that the Senate should not consider a SCOTUS nominee in an election year, but it may surprise you to learn that towards the end of that same speech Biden also said that the Senate would hold a vote on POTUS' nominee
after the election but
before the inauguration. Mileage may vary on whether or not you believe him, but he did not say that a POTUS shouldn't get to nominate a prospective Justice in the last year of their term, he only said it shouldn't happen during an ongoing campaign.
Quote:
"Mr. President, where the nation should be treated to a consideration of constitutional philosophy, all it will get in such circumstances is a partisan bickering and political posturing from both parties and from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. As a result, it is my view that if a Supreme Court Justice resigns tomorrow, or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer, President Bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not and not name a nominee until after the November election is completed."
[...]
"Some will criticize such a decision and say it was nothing more than an attempt to save a seat on the court in the hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it. But that would not be our intention, Mr. President, if that were the course we were to choose in the Senate to not consider holding hearings until after the election. Instead, it would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is under way, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over."