As Senate Republicans harden their line on not considering the Supreme Court nominee President Obama puts forward, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell suggested that even a nominee put forward by the next president to fill the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s spot might still face obstacles in getting confirmed.
Asked by a reporter at a press conference at the Capitol Tuesday whether he would commit to an up-or-down vote for the next president’s nominee, McConnell said, “No.” He added that he didn’t mean that a nominee would not be considered “at all.”
“What I am saying is, whoever the nominee is that comes up next year, will be considered by the Senate,” McConnell added. “What the procedures, the process would be, I don’t know. But at the beginning of a four-year term, the suggestion that the Senate of either party wouldn’t consider a nominee at all would not be correct.”
Yea, forget the will of the voters!
I mean, just because we say Obama can’t nominate someone because the voters haven’t spoken doesn’t mean that once they have spoken we have to listen to them.
We do what we want, and praise voters when we want and ignore them when we don’t.
OMG. The revolution is here! The Senate is revolting! (as it always has been since the GOP took over).
There is surely some Constitutional remedy for this, isn’t there?
Does the Supreme Court get a say in this, given how utterly unconstitutional this move is?
(Hey Bernie: where are the million gathered outside McConnell’s window?)
P.S. I think McConnell just realized that the GOP will LOSE the next election too?
There you go. Hillary nominees aren’t getting a vote either.
Their behavior from the start of the Obama administration has been outrageous continually, as a baseline, and then there are periodic peaks of extra outrageousness. But this just goes beyond anything yet. It’s tantamount to a coup.
I guess he’s counting on the next Justice to die being a liberal.