Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
by rayiner on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:31PM
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The "qualifications" come from the appointment and confirmation process itself. The Constitution splits the job of filling Supreme Court vacancies between the two political branches of government. The fact that the process can become political where different parties control those two branches in an election year is utterly unsurprising.
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Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
by jakelazaroff on Friday September 18, 2020 @10:39PM
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> The fact that the process can become political where different parties control those two branches in an election year is utterly unsurprising.
Correct, no one is actually surprised that Mitch McConnell abandoned the flimsy justification for his power grab the instant it outlived its use to him.
How is doing something exactly as it’s spelled out in the Constitution a “power grab”?
Alternatively, McConnell could have called the vote and the Republican majority in the Senate could have just voted it down.
Pre-nuclear option (an actual example of a power grab) even a minority of Senators could stop a nominee from getting through. The Republicans had a majority.
> Alternatively, McConnell could have called the vote and the Republican majority in the Senate could have just voted it down.
It can't be assumed that there wouldn't be Republican defections on a Garland confirmation. This is exactly the reason the majority leader refused to allow a vote. Even now, a number of Republican Senators have already "defected" and declared they won't vote on a nominee before the 2021 inauguration.
Re:Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
by aaronblohowiak on Saturday September 19, 2020 @12:17PM
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They should have voted on it!