Sen. John Cornyn, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, said Thursday that considering President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, during the lame duck session after the election, as some Republicans have suggested, “makes no sense,” according to The Hill.
“I know there has been some members of the press who asked … how about in a lame-duck session of the Congress,” he said, according to The Hill. “I think that is a terrible idea.”
Both Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) have suggested they would be willing to consider Garland after the November election if a Democrat wins the White House.
Cornyn said such a move would not support Republicans’ argument that the next president choose the Supreme Court nominee.
“I, for one, believe we ought to be consistent, and that consistent principle is the American people deserve to be heard and their voices heeded on who makes that selection to something as important as filling this vacancy on the Supreme Court,” he said, according to The Hill.
Mr. Cornyn, I know you are an asshole supreme, but even you should know that the Republican Party itself has not made any sense since the years 1861 - 1865.
Tax cuts for the super rich. Now THAT makes sense.
the only Republican consistency is its consistent hypocrisy…
WHOA!!!
deja vu…
OK, so it’s now obvious the golden age of unified dickishness is now over, to be followed by an extended period of random dickishness, on the way to the ultimate collapse the Republican Party. But I direct your attention to an editorial post here yesterday under the title “Reckoning”:
Emphasis mine, I’m just putting it out there for comment. This was at the end of the article, and was never expanded on. What do you think is meant by this? Does anyone else think the dems are going to be thrown into chaos by the coming GOP implosion? Is that what this means? Is this about Sanders, or just a general foreboding?
the political ecosystem will be out of balance if one of the big species goes extinct.