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BigBearJohn

(11,410 posts) Tue Feb 16, 2016, 04:17 AM Feb 2016

BILL MAHER: "Obama is president; a ‪#‎SupremeCourt‬ justice died; he gets to pick, period!

As usual, only way ‪#?Republicans‬ can win anything is by cheating."

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BILL MAHER: "Obama is president; a ‪#‎SupremeCourt‬ justice died; he gets to pick, period! (Original Post) BigBearJohn Feb 2016 OP

He gets to pick but the Senate has an equal role as they must "consent" PoliticAverse Feb 2016 #1

No Comment Necessary: Mitch McConnell on the Supreme Court, Then and Now eridani Feb 2016 #2

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. He gets to pick but the Senate has an equal role as they must "consent"

Reply to BigBearJohn (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 04:40 AM

Feb 2016

for the pick to be approved.

eridani

(51,907 posts)

2. No Comment Necessary: Mitch McConnell on the Supreme Court, Then and Now

Reply to BigBearJohn (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2016, 06:25 AM

Feb 2016

http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/no-comment-necessary-mitch-mcconnell-on-the-supreme-court-then-and-now/

Mitch McConnell, Feb. 13, 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Law Journal, Vol. 59, 1970: “The Senate should discount the philosophy of the nominee. […] The president is presumably elected by the people to carry out a program and altering the ideological directions of the Supreme Court would seem to be a perfectly legitimate part of a Presidential platform.”

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