Re: Replacing Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia
Reply #56 –
Agreed! Where in the constitution does it say Congress should or must accommodate the president?
Is it written somewhere that whatever the president attempts is to be obliged, by the other two branches of government? Obama himself has told us that he is neither Emperor nor King… However much you regret and dislike it, he's correct.
In this case, the problem is not Obama. It's the Senate claiming they'll refuse to even go through the hearings to confirm or deny his nominee (or in the case of some, automatically deny.) This is the potential to blow up in their faces in at least a couple ways. Obama can nominate some that's so obviously qualified and politically moderate that they'll have to cave - AFTER getting the word out that Obama shouldn't. Plain old obstructionism could cost them seats in swing states and thus control of the Senate.
Meanwhile, the irony is that when justices get appointed they often go their own, party independent way. So an Obama appointee is liable to rule the same as a Trump, Cruz or Rubio more often than not regardless. If by miracle the GOP presidential nominee gets elected, do you guys somehow think Roe v. Wade will somehow get overturned still, or that equal marriage will be? That's right, all this drama that carries the risk senators losing their seat come November is liable to be for nothing.