What RBG Said in 2016 About Filling a SCOTUS Vacancy During an Election Year

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What RBG Said in 2016 About Filling a SCOTUS Vacancy During an Election Year
Leah Barkoukis

Posted: Sep 21, 2020 7:33 AM

The left has pounced on late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s “fervent wish” that her seat isn’t filled until after the election as though it’s law that must be followed. But what they seem to have forgotten is what she said in 2016 about filling a vacancy during an election year.

When the Republican-controlled Senate blocked former President Obama’s pick of Merrick Garland to fill the late Antonin Scalia’s seat, Ginsburg instructed them to proceed with reviewing the nomination.

“That’s their job,” she told The New York Times in an interview. “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.”

Obama also said in 2016 that just because a vacancy arises during an election year doesn’t mean nothing is done about it.

"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 Constitution text."

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[Hoodat]

But . . . but that was different.

[jafo2010]

It makes you wonder if Democommies have any intelligence remaining.

President Trump will nominate someone this week, his Constitutional right to do so, and the Republican Senate will evaluate and vote before the November election, which is also within their Constitutional right.  And any Republican voting no, abstaining or not showing up will NEVER win another election.  They might as well resign now.

And there are numerous Democrats that would be well served to vote yes, that is if they desire to get re-elected.  Four Democrats that voted no with the last Trump nominee lost their re-election.  That is to be noted!

Trump has the greatest leverage he has ever had.  I expect a nomination and voted approval in record time.  No need to drag it out.

Democommies are the single greatest existential threat to the security of the USA, and this election will prove that out.

[DCPatriot]

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Democommies are the single greatest existential threat to the security of the USA, and this election will prove that out.

They STILL take a backseat to the mainstream media...maybe even the Department of Education.