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February 14, 2016

Dems in Senate passed a resolution in1960 against election year Supreme  Court appointments

By Thomas Lifson

Read  it and weep, Democrats. The shoe is on the other foot. David Bernstein at the Washington  Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog:

Thanks  to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled  Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, “Expressing  the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments  to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration  of the Court’s business.”  Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS  appointments had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by  the Senate, and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to  fill any last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess  appointment.

 

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Schumer in 2007: Don't confirm any Bush Supreme Court nominee

 
By Curt Mills(@CurtMills)•2/14/16 6:29 PM

 

 

Sen. Chuck Schumer said in July 2007 that no George W. Bush nominee to the Supreme Court should be approved, except in extraordinary circumstances, 19 months before a new president was set to be inaugurated.

"We should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court, except in extraordinary circumstances," Schumer, a New York Democrat, said in prepared remarks to the American Constitution Society, a liberal legal organization.

Schumer cited ideological reasons for the delay.

"They must prove by actions, not words, that they are in the mainstream rather than we have to prove that they are not," Schumer said at the time.

On Sunday, Schumer ripped Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as an "obstructionist" for vowing to block any Obama nominee to replace Scalia on the high court from receiving a Senate confirmation vote.

"When you go right off the bat and say, 'I don't care who he nominates, I am going to oppose him,' that's not going to fly," Schumer said on ABC's "This Week."

President Bush never got the opportunity to appoint another Justice after Schumer spoke in 2007, so the matter was rendered moot.

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“Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won.” – President Obama to House Republican Whip Eric Cantor, January 23, 2009.

Well, well...they certainly do, obama! Let me remind you that republicans regained the House in the 2010 mid-term elections; and republicans regained the Senate in the 2014 elections. So, go ahead and make your supreme court appointment and then live with the words you said after taking office in 2009! The Senate controls whether or not who you appoint makes it to the court. So tell me, obama....how do those words feel eating and swallowing them back down? A little sour, maybe????

 

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