Ted Cruz: The "Next President" Should Replace Scalia, Not This One.
Source: The Daily Kos
That was speedy. Sen. Ted Cruz pipes up, and doesn't think the sitting president should be appointing anyone at all to the Supreme Court to replace Antonin Scalia.
To be clear, there's no constitutional provision that supposes a current president with a year left in his term of office should simply not appoint anyone for that year, leaving the Supreme Court with 8 justices until some other president takes the oath of office. The Constitution is clear; Obama gets to name the next justice of the Supreme Court.
Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/13/1484752/-Ted-Cruz-The-next-president-should-replace-Scalia-not-this-one
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)The funeral has not been planned, and you are already trying to make a meal of the corpse to win votes, stay classy Ted.
rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Should NOT Be Ted Cruz.
It's been less than 24 hours -- is the body even completely cold?
rocktivity
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)done an autopsy?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)The coroner's report is going to be interesting, though: "Subject appears to have been born with no heart and no brain. We never heard of anyone living to the age of 79 in that condition, but there's a first time for everything."
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)pick. I say pick a nominee and when the Pukes refuse to cooperate, make it a full-court press demonstrating their recalcitrance to the voters.
McConnell's comment a few moments ago was partisan bullshit at best.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)No, President Obama should be the one to pick the next Supreme Court Justice. There is still almost a full year left in President Obama's term.
This is proof that Republican do not give a damn about the Constitution. They only claim to care about the Constitution when they think they can use it to get what they want. When they cannot get what they want they have no problem scraping the Constitution.
navarth
(5,927 posts)Or something to that effect.
TBF
(32,067 posts)father founding
(619 posts)Turtle would have a baby on the Senate floor.
TBF
(32,067 posts)nt
blackspade
(10,056 posts)You have no standing to dictate to Obama.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Sanders or Clinton might make a better choice, but I trust Obama.
TBF
(32,067 posts)nominating Obama to the court. That would be poetic justice indeed.
Rod Beauvex
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cynzke
(1,254 posts)This will be Obama's ultimate going away GIFT to the GOP to say THANK YOU for all the years preventing him from doing his job.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Does he think he will like Bernie's choice even more?
WheelWalker
(8,955 posts)He'd be hard to reject, even by the current Senate
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)sakabatou
(42,158 posts)DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)scottie55
(1,400 posts)No really, I mean it.
Just because Obama won't appoint another Fascist, doesn't mean he shouldn't appoint someone.
hamsterjill
(15,222 posts)We need to vote for the Democratic nominee for President.
snort
(2,334 posts)I wonder who Sanders will pick?
liberalnarb
(4,532 posts)hay rick
(7,624 posts)Bin Laden is dead.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)LOL!
trof
(54,256 posts)Delmette
(522 posts)God chose Scala to join him in heaven. That means that God wanted Obama to nominate next Justice. You can't argue with God's will.
svpadgham
(670 posts)Not the actor, but the character. I don't know anything about the actor other than name, acting ability, and skin tone.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)It doesn't make sense to me.
randys1
(16,286 posts)Demonaut
(8,919 posts)but for the color of his skin
Skittles
(153,169 posts)EXCEPT WHEN THEY DON'T
catnhatnh
(8,976 posts)To fuck-off to his homeland and rescue Nell.....
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)Putting aside the constitutionality of whether a sitting President can *be* on the Supreme Court... why do I picture Barack Obama on the Supreme Court? He's qualified for the job.
Now if Senator Cruz is saying that the next President should also take up a seat on the Supreme Court to replace Scalia...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Since he is so principled and consistent.
Or would he say: The Constitution demands that the president makes a nomination and the Senate has a duty to give that person a swift confirmation hearing.
I wonder.
TBF
(32,067 posts)Anthony McLeod Kennedy is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan on November 30, 1987 and took the oath of office on February 18, 1988.
source: Wiki
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)Hopefully, the next president will make the same appointments as BHO, unless BHO's appointment gets the consent of the senate.