RIP Antonin Scalia

Where are you reading from? I don't see the word nominate anywhere in what Baron quoted.

 

He[The President] shall have the Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Councils, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

 

Glad we settled that. The president of the United States of America actually is mandated to . . . do something.

 

OK, that's clearer. Again, though, you would be hard pressed to say he is "Constitutionally mandated" to present a DOA candidate -- it stilll plays into the political game of agreeing to skip a step.

And Baron is still too swayed by political rhetoric from a group that knows it's powerless to get its way. Obama will nominate, the GOP will reject, the voters will be heard.

 

And the election becomes a fierce referendum on abortion and the 2nd Amendment.

 

Thought this was a pretty good and reasoned argument for the GOP not blocking the nomination, from a strongly right-leaning columnist.

Chris Ingram: Why the GOP should miss this opportunity

As painful as it will be, the GOP should let Obama have his nominee. Although the balance of the court will lean left for the first time in a generation, a short-lived one-vote edge is better than the three-vote edge that will occur if the next president is a Democrat and more vacancies occur on the court (court watchers expect two retirements in the next four years). A three-vote liberal disparity on the court is exactly what we will end up with if the GOP screws up the November election — something a nomination battle is almost certain to help guarantee.

 

Why is everyone so sure that a nomination battle helps Hillary Clinton? There will be a Supreme Court seat open. Republican voters will be whipped into a frenzy, as well, over the Second Amendment. They will protect Heller as fiercely as the Democrats will protected Roe.

 

Agreed. But as angry as people are over the lack of action by the government, I wouldn't think this would help. Certainly the right will support blocking the nomination. Depends how those more in the center perceive it.

 

See, I'm of the RickStain theory: The election depends on voter turnout, not on "undecided" voters.

 

Except I don't see who could possibly force his hand to follow that mandate.

 

Hey, what happened to your sex offender photo?

 

Proving my point once again that when you don't have a response, you call names and cut and run. In other words, you Hammond.