Key GOP Senators Emerge From Meeting: No Hearing For Obama SCOTUS Nom

bearkat42

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Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office.

Tuesday was the first full day the Senate was back in session since Scalia's death Feb. 13.

"We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame duck president," said Majority Whip John Cornyn.

When asked if they would start the process after the new president took office or if they would consider doing it in the lame duck session, Cornyn replied "No, after the next president is selected. That way the American people have a voice in the process."

Sen. Lindsey Graham said that "there's no use starting a process that's not going to go anywhere and we are going to let the next president decide," when asked why there would be no hearings.

When TPM asked if he had political concerns about the decision not to move forward with a nominee, Graham responded."I have zero concerns politically."

"I think this is what they would do," Graham said referring to Senate Democrats. "For them to say they wouldn't do this is a lie."



Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) demurred saying that Republicans were "still talking."


The meeting in McConnell's office came not long after he made a speech on the Senate floorvowing to block any Obama nominee.

"Presidents have a right to nominate just as the Senate has its constitutional right to provide or withhold consent. In this case, the Senate will withhold it," McConnell said. "The Senate will appropriately revisit the matter after the American people finish making in November the decision they've already started making today."
 

Uncle Ben

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So what?

There is nothing unconstitutional in the Senate's actions here, and it is the exact same things Dems have been doing for decades. Karma, bitches.
You got that right, fuck 'em. Even Biden agrees it should be the next president.

Biden: President Should 'Not Name A Nominee Until After The November Election'
 

pnwmystery

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"We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame duck president," said Majority Whip John Cornyn.

When asked if they would start the process after the new president took office or if they would consider doing it in the lame duck session, Cornyn replied "No, after the next president is selected. That way the American people have a voice in the process."
I love how the GOP thinks they're above the Constitution. This "American people need a voice in the next Justice," is so threadbare and loosely based on logic.

So what?

There is nothing unconstitutional in the Senate's actions here, and it is the exact same things Dems have been doing for decades. Karma, bitches.
Show me exactly where in the US Constitution it says that the American populace gets to choose a Supreme Court Justice. I won't be holding my breath.
 

desert dude

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I love how the GOP thinks they're above the Constitution. This "American people need a voice in the next Justice," is so threadbare and loosely based on logic.



Show me exactly where in the US Constitution it says that the American populace gets to choose a Supreme Court Justice. I won't be holding my breath.
The Senate has two constitutional roles in the SCOTUS nomination process: Advice and Consent. They fulfilled both already. They Advised Obama that they would not Consent to consider his nominee. LULZ.

Now the president needs to get cracking on his duty: production of a nominee.

I have a suggestion for the president: Janice Rogers Brown.
 

UncleBuck

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The Senate has two constitutional roles in the SCOTUS nomination process: Advice and Consent. They fulfilled both already. They Advised Obama that they would not Consent to consider his nominee. LULZ.

Now the president needs to get cracking on his duty: production of a nominee.

I have a suggestion for the president: Janice Rogers Brown.
isn't she the one who said of social security: “[t]oday’s senior citizens blithely cannibalize their grandchildren because they have a right to get as much ‘free’ stuff as the political system will permit them to extract.”

and don;t you collect social seurity checks that i keep sending you?

dumb fucking white supremacist.
 
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