Senate GOP to Obama: Don’t bother nominating to Court

In replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades, but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in the Senate. When Obama nominated radical judicial activists Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) voted for them, saying the Senate should defer to the president on court nominees.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid told reporters in Las Vegas Tuesday, “I’m very glad we’ve had a few renegade Republicans break from the pack and say there should be action taken” on a nominee. Senate Republican insiders have long argued that Democrats politicized the nomination process by filibustering George W. Bush’s judicial nominees when convenient, then stripping Republicans of that same power when Obama took office. He has said he will put forward a replacement in due time and that he believes the Senate will have “plenty of time” to give the nominee a fair hearing and a vote.

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley isn’t ready to say whether he’ll convene a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on President Obama’s nominee to fill the opening on the U.S. Supreme Court. And though Colbert had just gotten done roasting some of the most powerful men and women in the world to their faces-Scalia included-he and the Supreme Court Justice shared a moment after the speech. What’s to stop Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Stephen Breyer from retiring this fall, making way for a fourth or even fifth Obama appointment? An inquest by phone is as valid as one in person under state law, said Bronson Tucker, an attorney for the Texas Justice Courts Training Center who offers instruction to justices of the peace. His unexpected death on Saturday was a tremendous loss for the nation that he loved, for the rule of law that he championed and for the Constitution he strove to restore throughout his 30 years on the court. An activist court will – for starters – perpetuate racial preferences, uphold amnesty for illegals, and concoct new “rights” as fast as they eviscerate conscience rights, the Second Amendment and the rest of our written Constitution. “What a unique opportunity to establish that regardless of the next president’s party, the nominees will be treated fairly and on the basis of their qualifications, and not on the basis of ancient political squabbles”.

Most gracious was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wrote, “From our years together at the D.C. Circuit, we were best buddies”. “I am ready to meet my maker”, he said, “but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter”. That ban is known as the Hyde Amendment, something presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have both vowed to overturn.

In a Washington Post op-ed published Monday, the Nevada senator claimed Republicans have “insulted” the American people’s intelligence by “pretending there is a historical precedent for what they are about to do”.

GOP leaders have argued that filling the seat should be left to the next president. The stakes couldn’t be higher. “The president is going to do what he is elected to do and let’s vote up or down”.