Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval doesn’t want to be Supreme Court justice

“One of the discussions I had with Senator Grassley, as well, is that we need to have the discussion on whether our Supreme Court justices should be legislating from the bench”, she said.

The president spoke briefly Wednesday with Orrin Hatch of Utah, a former Judiciary Committee chairman viewed as potentially sympathetic to concerns about the precedent set by the Republican opposition. Obama’s appointee could pivot the court to the left for the first time in decades.

“It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is under way, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over”.

LAS VEGAS (AP) – The Latest on Nevada’s governor saying he’s not interested in being considered for the Supreme Court vacancy. “It’s listening to the American people”.

As the graph below shows, over half of the American citizens polled believe that the senate should do their job and hold confirmation hearings for whomever President Obama nominates.

Several justices have been nominated and confirmed during election years.

“In 2014 the voters had a voice and we now have a Republican majority”.

For one, he proved beyond doubt that the sole Republican agenda is to obstruct: with Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, and the majority of Republican senators rejecting a popular, well-liked, well-qualified member of their own party as a nominee, it revealed all the cards they had in one swift play.

“It’s we the people”. He said Wisconsin’s presidential primary, which will be held on the same day, could also be a big factor. And the country lost out on someone who would have been a great candidate for the Supreme Court.

Grassley repeated his assertion that the Senate won’t move forward while “the American people decide” which direction to take the federal government. Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the judiciary panel.

But election-year vacancies do occur. That’s the approach progressive advocacy groups are hoping for, and they’re promising to fire up their base to support the president.

If a president can not make appointments in his final year of office, nothing stops a president from not making appointments in their final two years of office and so forth.

“Call Senator Grassley”, instructs the Judicial Crisis Network.

Of course, the people already decided.

“It strikes me as very thankless place to be”, McAffee said.

Mr. Krauthammer writes about “situational constitutional principle, i.e. transparent hypocrisy”.

Yet in a nod to Democrats’ interests, Obama also said the law isn’t clear in all cases that reach the high court.

Sandoval, 52, is a former federal judge and popular second-term governor.

On Thursday, Sandoval took his name out of the running. Therefore McConnell does not even want a hearing. But once the obstructionists sense weakness, they’ll stop at nothing.

But the question remains: Would he have made a good justice?

The nomination is to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia earlier this month.

The Republican stance is so absurd and indefensible that it makes it easy for a potential challenger to simply promise to do the job for which the taxpayers pay them.