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 No.340697

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday shot down the idea of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland getting a hearing.

McConnell insisted in a floor speech that vacancy should be filled by the next president.

“The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court and have a profound impact on our country, so of course the American people should have a say in the Court’s direction," he said.

"The senate will continue to observe the 'Biden Rule' so the American people have a voice in this momentous decision. The American people may well elect a president who decides to nominate Judge Garland for Senate consideration. The next president may also nominate somebody very different. Either way, our view is this: Give the people a voice in filling this vacancy."

President Obama on Wednesday nominated Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to the Supreme Court.

Obama animatedly called on Republicans to allow a hearing and vote on Garland.

"It is tempting to make this confirmation process simply an extension of our divided politics, the squabbling that's going on in the news every day," he said. "But to go down that path would be wrong. It would be a betrayal of our best traditions and a betrayal of the vision of our founding documents.

"This is precisely the time when we should play it straight."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273230-mcconnell-no-hearing-for-garland

 No.340718

If republicans actually follow through for once instead of acting tough to only give up a few weeks later I will be very impressed.


 No.340723

>>340697

This is likely a good thing, not bad. However, that all depends who will be the next one to hold office.

Obama wants to fill the empty seats with more commies that will vote to destroy more of your liberties.


 No.340726

Why the fuck did Obama nominate a moderate, and not a liberal?


 No.340728

>>340726

The only people calling him moderate are fucking liberals.


 No.340731

>>340697

> It would be a betrayal of our best traditions

This piece of shit has some nerve talking about betraying our traditions.


 No.340735

>>340726

He's not a moderate. He wants to repeal the 2nd amendment


 No.340750

>>340728

THIS.

>>340735

AND THIS.

Ever since Antonin Scalia was knocked off, Obama has been trying to find the right commies to replace him. We all know he hated Scalia because he was a key figure who slammed down carbon taxation as unconstitutional and deliberate fraud/extortion. He also was a big 2nd Amendment supporter.

Nope, Obama and his communist gang of treasonous jackbooted thugs can't have a man like that in the Supreme Court! Got to have a commie who will take a shit on our constitutional rights and everything we stand for as a nation. Just like everyone else he appoints.


 No.340753

>>340728

THIS.

>>340735

AND THIS.

Ever since Antonin Scalia was knocked off, Obama has been trying to find the right commies to replace him. We all know he hated Scalia because he was a key figure who slammed down carbon taxation as unconstitutional and deliberate fraud/extortion. He also was a big 2nd Amendment supporter.

Nope, Obama and his communist gang of treasonous jackbooted thugs can't have a man like that in the Supreme Court! Got to have a commie who will take a shit on our constitutional rights and everything we stand for as a nation. Just like everyone else he appoints.

fucking post broken piece of shit site!


 No.340791

>>340726

Because the Republicans control Congress. If it was a Democrat PotUS and a Democrat Senate, we'd see Obama market the most far-left judge he could find for the appointment and the Senate committee would play a couple games of poker to make it look like they actually did something besides just say "yup".

Obama has to cave a bit and find a guy that's appealing to the Republicans but would still do things like uphold handgun bans or environmental taxes.

>>340750

Did you ever stop and think that the tone of your writing and the word you pick are why we don't look like normal people but instead look like paranoid crackpots?

>>340753

doubleposting because you're whining about how the site won't let you post just makes you look like a faggot.


 No.340801

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>cucked

More like out-politicking the Republicans. He set a trap and they're walking right into it, just like they always do.

"Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing."


 No.340822

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>>340801

>He set a trap


 No.340831

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executive power pen coming in 3, 2, 1…


 No.340836

TRUMP WILL END NSA SURVEILLANCE


 No.340839

>>340831

He can't. He can only nominate. Congress decides. And since he's been using his pen to go around congress the last couple years, congress ain't too happy with him.


 No.340840

>>340822

What would you call nominating someone with a history of bipartisan support, while shaming the Republicans into respecting to apolitical nature of the court?

Don't forget that the Republicans are already terrified of losing the Senate in November.


 No.340845

>>340801

He doesn't know. He just keeps following orders. Or do you really think a fucking shitskin would be able to come up with a plan to cuck the entire nation?


 No.340846

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>>340840

>shaming the Republicans


 No.340862

>>340846

Guilt. The only thing I might have done differently is nominate the Indian judge. That way the Republicans are not just obstructionists, they're also racist against Asian Americans .

Either way, they're getting pressured n a crucial election year with a nominee they feel is destroying their party's chances going forward..


 No.340872

>>340791

>tone policing

>>>/reddit/


 No.340879

>>340839

i think you have that backwards anon. the 2nd greatest love of a politician is the blame game. and that white-house pen figures directly into the corporate/billionaire agenda. so the congress folks shrug their shoulders at the voting public and say it was the president, not us congress people. which leaves impeachment, and that is utterly useless. so basically the corporations and/or billionaires trying to achieve their sacred cow, now… only have to buy a presidential pen stroke, far cheaper than buying both sides of congress. A LOT CHEAPER.


 No.340904

>>340839

sure, you can believe in all your personal rights crap, which will prove meaningless in the forth coming years. the fact of the matter is, the powers that be have not decided who will get the lifetime appointment. so in the meantime, your going to get feed the smoke&mirror show.


 No.340914

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>>340840

>Bipartisan (read: Neocon-Neocons that never left coalition)

>Apolitical nature of the court


 No.340922

>>340872

>actually using the term 'tone policing' unironically

Fucking bizarroSJWs should all be shot. Are we gaslighting you too, faggot?


 No.340927

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Awesome good news OP, thanks!


 No.340928

>>340791

>average person is too stupid to understand politics and the corruption inherent

>thinks people who do understand them are cuhraaazy

Proof that the people deserve a boot stamping their faces into the dirt for all eternity


 No.340931

>>340840

If they lose the senate in november the democrats will get what they want anyway

You're a fucking retard for thinking "if you don't give us what we want, we'll try to make you lose so we get what we want!" is in any way a convincing argument


 No.340935

>>340840

>the republicans are terrified of losing the senate in november

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_2016

You're a fucking retard on multiple levels. Even if they lost every single senator in a blue state they'd still retain control of the senate

>b-but maybe they'll lose red state senators too!

Not going to happen retard


 No.340939

>>340935

Note- republicans are going to win Ohio, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania in 2016 so those are red states


 No.340940

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>>340697

>"This is precisely the time when we should play it straight."

>Obongo

. . .

I just.. don't.even.


 No.341058

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 No.341061

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>>340862

>they're getting pressured

By whom? They have the majority, you cuck.


 No.341233

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 No.341242

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 No.341243

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 No.341244

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>>340862

>nominee they feel is destroying their party's chances going forward..

Lol, are you talking about Trump? He's the populist candidate for a good reason friendo, not only is he going to make America great again, he's going to strengthen the Republican party ultimately the best that's been seen since Reagan.


 No.341607

>>340801

>quoting ruboto

>who lost to his own country by Trump


 No.341625

>>340928

That sort of faggotry makes me angrier than anything.

It's on the same level as that "internalized racism" shit that SJWs do in order to disregard the opinions of minorities who call them out for being lunatics.


 No.341671

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 No.341937

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le cuck may-may


 No.342999

>>341937

stop posting pictures of Obama's baby photos please


 No.343022

I don't see what the Republican goal is here.

Right now, they have the Dems forced to nominate a moderate, who's already in his 60s.

If Trump or Cruz is the next President, there's still no guarantee that their nominee will be any more acceptable to the Republican establishment.

While if Clinton or Sanders wins, they're going to be faced with a hard left-wing judge being nominated instead.

It seems like a lose/lose on their part, and that's aside from the way it makes them look like obstructive whiners.


 No.343053

>>343022

>obstructive whiners

The only people who look bad here are democrats who have been on record as repeatedly declaring their opposition to appointing nominees during election years even when it was just speculation on the possibility of a justice retiring but are now going "n-no we didn't mean it before if you don't give us what we want then we will be mad at you!"

And "establishment" justices like kennedy are shit anyway and never vote conservatively when it actually counts


 No.343061

>>343053

Oh please, the last time the Dems did that, it was two months before elections, not an entire year.

And people have short memories. Most won't remember that, but only what's happening now.

And, like I said, odds are good it won't wind up with the Republican establishment getting a pick they'll like better, no matter who wins.


 No.343077

>>343022

>Clinton

>hard left wing

Just because someone is more authoritarian doesn't mean they are left wing.


 No.343095

>>343077

Fair enough, but I doubt it'll be a nominee the Republicans find more favorable than Garland.




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