I think he means he doesn’t want to rush to answer re: could FBI report delay the vote. He’s saying, first get the report, then we can discuss whether it could delay the vote.
True but… Who was the former Republican who wrote the piece a few years back pointing out that the Republican Party was no longer a traditional United Stars political party as we have understood it in the past but is an insurgent movement bent on overthrowing the government.
It’s not that they dot want the power that government offers. It’s that they don’t feel government controlled by them should respect the norms of our nations government as conceived. They want authoritarianism, not constitutional democracy.
This Supreme Court nomination farce is further evidence of that notion. The mistake we’re making is trying to understand it in the context of our county’s history and norms. We’re still trying to make sense of things in the. Context of the old paradigm while they are operating under a new context. This phenomenon explains why the press continues to have difficulty calling them on their shit. We’re too afraid, or polite, or blind to call it what it is
Timex
3502
Oh, it’s possible that they want to destroy or current system of government and replace it with another one that they have total control over. I can see that.
vyshka
3504
Wow, now a Civil War between Falwell, Graham, Jeffries, and their kind and other Christians.
It might have been but that wasn’t the argument that was primarily made. It was the Justice Bork;s views were outside the judicial mainstream. Which they weren’t, they were simply too conservative for a Democratic-controlled Senate to approve.
From the wiki
Biden stated his opposition to Bork soon after the nomination, reversing an approval in an interview of a hypothetical Bork nomination he had made the previous year and angering conservatives who thought he could not conduct the hearings dispassionately.
At the end, Reagan nominated Kennedy, who turned out to the definition of a moderate who much like Justice Powell a moderate who he replaced.
Remember Garland would have been replacing Scalia not just a conservative but arguably the leader of the conservative wing of SCOTUS. Obama had to replace Scalia with a moderate, to win over a Republican-controlled Senate. Garland was a liberal, maybe not a Bernie Sanders progressive, but not a moderate either.
Timex
3509
Eh, Garland is pretty moderate, I believe. Certainly more centrist than the current left leaning justices.
vyshka
3510
Obama probably could have nominated anyone and the result would have still been the same.
There were at least 1/2 dozen articles written on National Review lawyers who disagreed. The best they could say is that he would not be as far left as Justice Kagan or Sotomayer. You could make the case for Garland if the seat we were talking about back in 2016 was Kennedy but not Scalia’s.
It took Reagan three nomination to find one the Senate Democrats would confirm, I suspect the same is true for Obama against a going against a Republican controlled Senate. It is worth noting that Kagan got 5 Republican votes, and Sotomayer got 9.
Timex
3513
There’s no way he’d be further left than Ginsburg.
So you are taking about someone who is further right than at least 3 of the justices.
That’s pretty moderate.
I mean, of course layers on the national review are going to consider him on the left… He’s on the left of them. Because they’re on the right.
The fact that it was Scalia’s seat doesn’t hold water… Because it wasn’t his seat. It’s not like the different seats have some fixed judicial perspective and the Justice taking them need to match. I mean, Kavanaugh is replacing Kennedy, and he’s seemingly insanely far to the right… Not just judicially conservative, but seemingly an actual partisan.
Clay
3514
Has this been posted here yet?
vyshka
3515
I think their main objection was Obama getting to name 3 people to the court. If it was just a complaint about Garland they could have easily not voted for him during the confirmation vote. I’d have to go back and look, but didn’t McConnell even make his stance clear before Garland had even been nominated?
Nesrie
3516
They were not going to let Obama assign a seat, no matter who he selected. I don’t know why anyone would say otherwise. They stole that seat, and now they’ve proven they don’t care about qualifications at all.
This man is unfit, and just like everything else, the GOP simply does not care. They create rules for others to follow, but they won’t do it.
rowe33
3517
Yay, my sister-in-law is on that list. Go profs!
Orrin Hatch said he’d be great.
KevinC
3519
Haha, he sure did. Just like Orrin Hatch – the longest serving Republican senator in the history of the country – also said career politicians were the worst thing ever and that Senators should be forced out after a term or two. That was back when he was running for office in 1976, I believe.
A man who sticks by his word and his principles, that Orrin Hatch!
