Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2005: 'The President, and the President alone, nominates judges'

[cleanhippie]

Sen. Mitch McConnell, in 2005, defending the absolute right of a sitting president to nominate judges.

"The Constitution of the United States is at stake. Article II, Section 2 clearly provides that the President, and the President alone, nominates judges. The Senate is empowered to give advice and consent. But my Democratic colleagues want to change the rules. They want to reinterpret the Constitution to require a supermajority for confirmation. In effect, they would take away the power to nominate from the President and grant it to a minority of 41 Senators."

"[T]he Republican conference intends to restore the principle that, regardless of party, any President's judicial nominees, after full debate, deserve a simple up-or-down vote. I know that some of our colleagues wish that restoration of this principle were not required. But it is a measured step that my friends on the other side of the aisle have unfortunately made necessary. For the first time in 214 years, they have changed the Senate's 'advise and consent' responsibilities to 'advise and obstruct.'"

Take it from Sen. Mitch McConnell: for the Senate to block a sitting president from nominating a Supreme Court nominee—not just a specific nominee, mind you, but any nominee at all, would put the Constitution of the United States itself at stake. And he's a patriot, so he would never even consider such a thing.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/13/1484831/-Sen-Mitch-McConnell-in-2005-The-President-and-the-President-alone-nominates-judges

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Nice Research !!!

[Human101948]

2. That weasel will claim things are now completely different because "Obama...unconstitutional.."

Or some such dreck.

[DFW]

3. Didn't McConnell tell you?

He meant to add--"As long as the president is a Republican. Otherwise, my statement is inoperative."

[randys1]

4. Sorry, this is incorrect. He did NOT say this, what he said was

well, let me rephrase it for what he will say now, so to speak

or what he MEANT to say was

"As George W Bush is white, and a republican, he should nominate and we should vote"

[underpants]

5. Spot on

[cleanhippie]

6. Good translation.