Just moments after Antonin Scalia’s untimely death, D.C. was lit aflame with controversy over the nomination of his replacement. Republicans said that a replacement should be appointed by the next President, and the Democrats responded by attacking the GOP’s actions as unconstitutional.
Never one to fall out of step with her party, Elizabeth Warren unsurprisingly sided with her fellow Democrats, going so far as to accuse Republican love for the constitution was nothing more than “empty talk.”
If Warren truly had the grasp of the Constitution she claims she has, she would acknowledge the fact that sending someone to the Supreme Court is a two-branch process, not just the Presidents’.
She may be right, the American people did have a say in the nomination process when they elected Barack Obama to the oval office, but they also had a say when they acknowledged their mistake and sent the President a Republican Senate just two years later.
Somehow, though, she doesn’t seem to agree. See her full statement on the next page:
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Actually$#%&!@*it’s not and before you point your bent finger look upon your on ranks.
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bull c**p it’s perfectly constitutional..
Ah, no it isn’t. It’s called senate has final word.
Read it and weep, Democrats. The shoe is on the other foot. David Bernstein at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog:
Thanks to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, “Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.” Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS appointments had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by the Senate, and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to fill any last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess appointment.
Baloney! It is NOT unconstitutional. Schumer threatened the same against George Bush when he had 19 months left in his presidency. Warren you’re a Democrat idiot of the highest order! You have a very short memory! The Senate already has a resolution in place preventing ANY president from making a SCOTUS appointment during the remaining 12 months in a presidential term. The Dems passed this resolution in 1959 when Eisenhower was still president. Your own law blocks him appointing anyone right now! Get over it!
It’s customary to learn the meaning of a word before using it in a sentence. Someone should probably tell her that.
What part of Advice and CONSENT of the Senate doesn’t she understand?
Wrong again retard !