Obama/Biden Hypocrisy on SC nomination time frame

[OPGenesis]

Obama - 2016

"When there is a vacancy on the SCOTUS, the President is to nominate someone, the Senate is to consider that nomination... There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off-years. That's not in the Constitution text."

Biden - 2016

“I would go forward with a confirmation process as chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires.”

Also, a list of all SC nominations that took under 46 days (There are even some who were confirmed the same day):

Lewis Powell —45

Ruth Bader Ginsburg —42

Sandra Day O'Connor —33 (*the vacancy)

Harlan Stone —31

Wiley Rutledge —28

Harry Blackmun —27 (*wrote Roe v Wade)

Arthur Goldberg —25

Robert Jackson —25

John Roberts —23 (*became Chief Justice)

Mahlon Pitney —23

John Paul Stevens —19

Sherman Minton —19

Warren Burger —17 (*became Chief Justice)

Charles Whittaker —17

Tom Clark —16

Pierce Butler —16

Harlan Stone —15 (*became Chief Justice)

William Douglas —15

Abe Fortas —14

Fred Vinson —14 (*became Chief Justice)

Frank Murphy —12

Felix Frankfurter —12

Owen Roberts —11

Charles Hughes —10

Stanley Reed —10

John Clarke —10

James McReynolds —10

Benjamin Cardozo —9

William Moody —9

Byron White —8

Charles Hughes —7 (*became Chief Justice)

Horace Lurton —7

Hugo Black —5

Edward Sanford —5

William Day —4

Joseph Lamar —3

Willis Devanter —3

Oliver Holmes —2

Harold Burton —1

James Byrnes —0

George Sutherland —0

William Taft —0 (*became Chief Justice)

Edward White —0


For all who keep mentioning this Barrett woman. She is a Catholic, which leads to presume she is a liberal at heart.

Be careful what you wish for lol.

[sandaltan]

thats rich coming from the guy who thinks a sky fairy created the earth in 7 days like 2000 years ago

[Polaris]

thats rich coming from the guy who thinks a sky fairy created the earth in 7 days like 2000 years ago

I'm no Creationist, but they believe Earth was created something like 6000 years ago.

Can you ever make a post without looking like an idiot?

[OPGenesis]

thats rich coming from the guy who thinks a sky fairy created the earth in 7 days like 2000 years ago

Says the fake lawyer with the name SANDALTAN.

LMAO.

Sandaltannnnnn.

*******.

[SniXSniPe]

In 2016, Republicans blocked former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland from obtaining a vote on the Senate floor. Garland would have replaced now-deceased Justice Antonin Scalia.

At the time, several GOP members including Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have said they did not believe in confirming a justice before an election.

Here we go:

“2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”



Where's the OP's post on republicans being two-faced? oh wait, biased miscers gonna bias

[OPGenesis]

Cope

[chaunce54]

Wall of text

"Elections have consequences"
-Barack Obama

[semitope]

Aren't they just asking republicans to be consistent? You using even that against them? sheesh. Can't win.

[x-trainer ben]

Well that is really inconvenient, using their words against them is not fair. Oh wait , it was 2016 so yes it is.

In 2016, Republicans blocked former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick Merrick Garland from obtaining a vote on the Senate floor. Garland would have replaced now-deceased Justice Antonin Scalia.

At the time, several GOP members including Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) have said they did not believe in confirming a justice before an election.

Here we go:

“2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”



Where's the OP's post on republicans being two-faced? oh wait, biased miscers gonna bias

[fitnessislife]

[rhadam]

thats rich coming from the guy who thinks a sky fairy created the earth in 7 days like 2000 years ago

Crazy how 4004 BC was 2000 years ago.

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