Hey Grassley, FUCK YOU!
He has a little opinion piece in USA Today where he tries to re-write history.
Democrats' Supreme Court double standard: Sen. Chuck Grassley
The nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill Scalia’s seat is the product of the most transparent and democratic judicial nomination process in recent history. On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump’s list of 21 potential nominees for the vacancy provided rare insight into who could be the next justice in a Trump presidency.
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Unfortunately, some Senate Democrats signaled plans to block any nomination made by the newly-elected president even before he announced his nomination. They’re doing so after criticizing Republicans for taking a principled position about a lame duck president that was advocated by Democrats for decades.
Take for example the minority leader, the Senate’s top Democrat. In 2007 he argued the Senate shouldn’t confirm any of Republican President George W. Bush’s Supreme Court nominees, should a vacancy arise during the last 18 months of his presidency. But last year, with a Democrat in the White House, he lambasted Senate Republicans for following the more moderate Biden Rule for vacancies arising in an election year. Now, as we prepare to consider Trump’s nominee, the minority leader has made clear he is prepared to leave the seat open indefinitely. Republicans didn’t hold up either of the first term Supreme Court nominees of Presidents Obama and Clinton. There shouldn’t be one set of rules for Republicans and another set of rules for Democrats. We won’t abide by such a double standard.
Instead, we will keep our word and we will fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court.
Chuckles, that's not what the 'Biden Rule' was.
*Biden's floor speech was on June 25, 1992, more than three months later in the election cycle than it is now.
*There was no Supreme Court vacancy to fill.
*There was no nominee to consider.
*The Senate never took a vote to adopt a rule to delay consideration of a nominee until after the election.
*Nonetheless, Biden took to the floor in a speech addressing the Senate president to urge delay if a vacancy did appear. But he didn't argue for a delay until the next president began his term. He said the nomination process should be put off until after the election, which was on Nov. 3, 1992.
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The "turtle rule" completely invalidated the wishes of the American public in 2012. I'd say that their rampant obstruction pretty much invalidated the wishes of the American public in 2008 as well.
"Most transparent and democratic"???? It wasn't originally Trump's seat to fill, mostly because of Grassley!!! And the "Biden Rule" isn't even a thing. A floor speech by a Senator who wasn't even in the leadership(?) means diddily-squat. Republicans can't point to a real-life modern example of a Democratic Congress preventing the hearing/voting/seating of a single Presidential SCOTUS nominee (Democrat OR Republican).
