Trumps needs to nominate TOMORROW !

[lurker]

I'm not talking about Obama. I'm talking about McConnell since he was the one who had the power to hold up the nomination in 2016 and he has the same power today. Stop deflecting.

You still don’t get it.

I can explain it to you, but I can’t make you understand it.

[Barbecueboy]

so just because they all said that back in 2016 means your team has to do the exact same thing in 2020??

Thought y'all wanted to be all different and stuff.

I believe we are getting ready to see another saga of Tony and Ezekiel.....and your team probably won't like it.

[Barbecueboy]

Mcnugget recognizing principles, lol.......

[mcarter815]

At least one Republican senator has stepped up to show she has principles.

https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/09/18/alaska-senator-murkowski-said-friday-she-would-not-vote-for-a-justice-ahead-of-election/

[klemmabyna]

politicians, both parties: consideration of right or wrong doesn't matter. only if you are on team red or team blue...

Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

[mcarter815]

I'm not talking about Obama. I'm talking about McConnell since he was the one who had the power to hold up the nomination in 2016 and he has the same power today. Stop deflecting.

[lurker]

I take it you don't want to address McConnell's statements in 2016 about nominating a new justice during an election year.

I’ll bite.

That’s’ an interesting comment from one of the three far leaning Liberal Leftist here on 4M.

I’ll see you one Mitch McConnell, and raise you one Barack Husssein Obama.

Here’s what your favorite past President had to say about the subject.

"When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the President is to nominate someone. The Senate is to Consider that Nomination... There's no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off years. That's not in the Constitutional text." - Barack Obama

Obama - "When There's a Vacancy, the President is to Nominate Someone and the Senate is to Consider" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkwQxQUJKks

[mcarter815]

Many of us say the same about you and your posts........the irony is strong

I take it you don't want to address McConnell's statements in 2016 about nominating a new justice during an election year.

[lurker]

Many of us say the same about you and your posts........the irony is strong

I suppose you’ll be accused of deflecting too, but I digress.

[Barbecueboy]

It would just be nice to see McConnell be consistent and principled for once in his life.

Many of us say the same about you and your posts........the irony is strong

[lurker]

Whataboutism is a deflection tactic.

You still don’t get how this all works.

The whole basis for your argument is a “Whataboutism”

--- McConnell said in 2016.

2016 --- SMH!!!!!!

[mcarter815]

Whataboutism is a deflection tactic.

[lurker]

Lurker, you're deflecting.

Not at all, just being straightforward and undeviating from your McConnell statement. You said, “be consistent and principled for once in life” ---- then I posted a Leftwing comparative list of names.

Nothing deflective about the point I made.

Buford made the same point I made in his last posting, second sentence.

[Buford.Justice]

It would just be nice to see McConnell be consistent and principled for once in his life.

Then why do you support the Democrat party? None of them have those qualities!!!!

[Rajflyboy]

How is today different from 2016? There were 100 senators elected by the people then as well.

Those 100 were elected into office to run things as they see fit. This ain’t 2016.