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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican Obstruction Is Undermining The Supreme Court, Enough Is Enough - by Barack Obama
This week, the Supreme Court returns to work. The Justices will hear important cases on issues ranging from the separation of church and state to intellectual property to Congressional redistricting to the death penalty. Many of the cases address questions that are fundamental to our democracy: the right to vote, for instance, or what constitutes U.S. citizenship. Yet regardless of the stakes Republicans in Congress have forced the Court to weigh these pivotal issues one Justice short of the Courts full panel of nine.
In a city of self-inflicted wounds, this one is more dangerous and less defensible than most.
Its been 202 days since I nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Thats more than five months longer than the average nominee has had to wait over the last 40 years to receive a hearing in Congress let alone an up or down vote. This delay has nothing to do with Judge Garlands personality or his qualifications. Senators on both sides of the aisle acknowledge that he is a distinguished legal mind, a dedicated public servant, and a good and decent man.
Leader McConnell argues that with an election looming, the Supreme Court should remain short staffed, and he certainly knows his way around DC. But the last time a Supreme Court seat was kept vacant through Election Day was in 1864. At the height of the Civil War. So, this isnt about precedent. This is about the obstruction of a broken Republican-led Congress.
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Bernardo de La Paz
(49,046 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,725 posts)solidly on the Republican Party.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)and President Obama right to the bitter end.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...Black Man with legitimate hands on the reins of power. The last time they had their team in the White House, they had to use every dirty electoral trick available, and then still had to cash in their brutally partisan SCOTUS chip. In addition to their outright RACISM, this is also bald-faced obstructionism to try and retain rethuglican control of a questionably stacked SCOTUS. If the shoe were on the other foot, rethuglicans from sea to shining sea, would be moaning, groaning, complaining and blathering about the Constitution and the Democrats "obvious obstructionism."
You are MORE THAN CORRECT: This is a blatant attempt to invalidate the will of the People.
spanone
(135,888 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)malaise
(269,193 posts)There should be nine judges
Rex
(65,616 posts)Finally the GOP exposed itself as the troglodyte den that it is. No more hiding underground.
lillypaddle
(9,581 posts)This is just infuriating.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)Well, assholes If it is change you want, vote in a Democratic Senate and House of Representatives and watch how much change you'll see!
spanone
(135,888 posts)the country is losing.
Initech
(100,107 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)their constitutional duty of advise and consent??
Isn't this a massive failure to uphold their oaths of office?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)who put us all in danger, not to mention diminish the quality of all our lives by blocking legislation that helps PEOPLE.
bucolic_frolic
(43,332 posts)Sworn on the Bible.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm
HAB911
(8,919 posts)Hillary will pay them back tenfold and I will LMAO