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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Senate GOP ups the ante, reaffirms there will be no hearings on Obama's SCOTUS nominee

The Constitution says Barack Obama can nominate someone to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

The Constitution also says the Senate provides advice and consent.

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee said that advice won't be forthcoming, and consent will indeed be withheld.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said members of the panel reached a "consensus" that there should not be hearings or a vote on President Obama's nominee.

"My decision is that I don't think we should have a hearing. We should let the next president pick the Supreme Court justice," he said after emerging from a meeting in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) office.

All 11 members of the panel signed a letter to McConnell Tuesday declaring they would not hold hearings to ensure the next president, not Obama, pick someone to replace the late conservative justice, Antonin Scalia.

"We wish to inform you of our intention to exercise our constitutional authority to withhold consent on any nominee to the Supreme Court submitted by this president to fill Justice Scalia's vacancy," they wrote.

And why shouldn't they stand firm? After all, it was originally Joe Biden's idea.

If you're keeping score, this means that the current president, current vice president, current Senate minority leader, and incoming Senate minority leader have all gone on record in the past in favor of obstructing a Supreme Court nominee.

Inconvenient, that. But funny!

Of course the only fly in the ointment is who gets elected as our 45th president. As of now there are 5 people with a reasonable shot at the title, and I gotta tell ya, at least 3 (probably 4) of those 5 aren't exactly predisposed to nominating someone with Scalia's intellect, principles, or disposition.

This election is for all the marbles kids. Don't screw it up.

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