Obama Looking For Justice Who Will ‘Interpret’ The Law, Not ‘Make’ It

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would block a hearing on Capitol Hill should Obama decide to nominate someone during this presidential election.

In a rare blog post, Obama said it is one of the most important decisions that a president will make. When it doesn’t, they readily throw the Constitution on the closet shelf and support the most outrageous proposals, the most radical schemes.

It is part of a larger effort by the Senate’s Republican leadership to slam the door shut on the idea that the Senate would or should give an Obama nominee to the court consideration.

At a strategic point in the Senate’s consideration of the plan, Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, in a series of private meetings with senators, agreed to write a letter to the Judiciary Committee, explaining that the court was current in its work and needed no additional justices.

“Shut down the government?” Bring America to the brink of defaulting on its debt?

The GOP’s stalling gambit was so patently absurd a few Senators last week began to twist this way and that under the weight of public outrage and a slew of critical newspaper editorials about exactly what their position on an Obama nomination was.

A Supreme Court judge must be able to analyze certain cases when the “law is not clear”. “I believe the overwhelming view of the Republican Conference in the Senate is that this nomination should not be filled, this vacancy should not be filled by this lame-duck president”.

Senate Republicans don’t want to act on a nominee, while Democrats say the president is bound by the Constitution to move forward.

The infographic posted to Obama’s Twitter account fails to mention the longstanding precedent that lame duck presidents have that respects the future of the court and the vote of the people.

The owner of the ranch, John Poindexter, told the Post that he was “aware of no connection between that organization and Justice Scalia”.

As a conservative, I had to watch Obama’s and Schumer’s hypocrisy in 2007 play out.