Today I heard Trump’s Press Secretary talking about how the Senate has a tradition of approving Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court. I understand that the Trump administration knows little of history, but I’m thinking, does this guy not even remember last year, when the Republican Senate, including Pennsylvania’s Senator Toomey, refused to even hold hearings on President Obama’s nominee?
You know what. Screw Gorsuch. We got along ok for a whole year with eight Supreme Court justices. There is no constitutional requirement to have nine, and in U.S. history we have had more than nine and fewer than nine.
Let’s stay with eight for the next four years, or at least until Trump’s impeachment.
Am I being petty and unreasonable. You are goddam right I am.
Not petty and unreasonable at all. This was a stolen nomination and if the Dems don't do anything to block it, it will send a message to all future Congresses that the last year of a President's term doesn't count. We elected President Obama for four years in 2012 and Merrick Garland was a good, centrist choice that had been praised by both parties. Not allowing even hearings for him was flat out wrong. So we might lose the battle, but we should never stop fighting for what's right.
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