Post by the Scribe on Sept 21, 2020 17:48:18 GMT
“A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle.”
President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama
'When you have the votes, you can sort of do what you want'
President Donald J. Trump
President Donald J. Trump
The above quote from Trump should scare everybody. That makes it imperative that these cons never have the votes in the House and Senate again. Trump and the cons complained vehemently when Obama declared an executive order but Trump has far exceeded anything Obama did in that regard. Trump has also broken every law on the books regarding his own lawful behavior for personal gain as president. In fact, his entire adult life shows a criminal pattern. If he gets another 4 years all bets are off for any type of normal behavior and legality. It will be a tin pot dictatorship.
Trump on Supreme Court vacancy: 'When you have the votes, you can sort of do what you want'
www.yahoo.com/news/trump-rbg-replacement-scotus-when-you-have-the-senate-you-can-sort-of-do-what-you-want-152627811.html
Dylan Stableford Senior Writer
Yahoo NewsMon, September 21, 2020, 8:26 AM MST
President Trump on Monday defended the Republican plan to bring his pick to replace the Supreme Court vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg to a vote so close to an election despite the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declined to do the same with Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's nominee, in 2016.
“When you have the Senate, when you have the votes, you can sort of do what you want as long as you have it,” Trump said in an interview with “Fox & Friends.”
When Obama nominated Garland after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, including the Senate. At the time, McConnell said the American people “should have a say” in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice, and that the vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.
Ginsburg, the iconic liberal justice and champion for women’s rights, died Friday of complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 87. Her death immediately set off a heated battle over the vacancy it leaves on the nation’s highest court.
McConnell wasted no time, releasing a statement on Friday night mourning Ginsburg’s death but also vowing that Trump’s nominee to fill her seat will receive a vote on the Senate floor.
The Kentucky Republican notably did not specify whether that vote would occur before or after the election. Even if Democrats were to win the presidency and the Senate, Trump and the Senate could still act before January, when the new elected officials will be sworn in.
President Barack Obama announces Judge Merrick Garland as his nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on March 16, 2016. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
In Obama’s statement reflecting on Ginsburg’s passing, the former president cited McConnell in arguing against a vote on her replacement so close to an election.
“Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in,” Obama wrote. “A basic principle of the law — and of everyday fairness — is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle.”
Trump said Monday he would unveil his choice to fill her seat on the bench later this week after memorial services for the late justice are complete. The president, who unveiled a list of 20 potential nominees to the Supreme Court before her death, said on Saturday that he would nominate a woman as Ginsburg’s replacement.
The president also dismissed Ginsburg’s dying wish, as dictated to her granddaughter, that she “will not be replaced until a new president is installed.”
“I don’t know that she said that,” Trump said on “Fox & Friends,” adding that he would be “more inclined” to believe it was “written out” by congressional Democrats.