Editor's Note: Steven Lubet is a professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. His most recent book is
"The 'Colored Hero' of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War against Slavery." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.
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Here in Texas we elect our judges. How is that any different from this?
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Funny, Constitutionality sure becomes important when folks want to use it to their advantage.
Any other time, and the Republicans and Democrats couldn’t care less about the document.
2 posted on
02/15/2016 2:32:07 PM PST by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
ridiculous. Recusal applies to the judiciary - not congress.
3 posted on
02/15/2016 2:32:36 PM PST by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You needn’t be an NBC to be a Senator. This is baloney.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
> “t would be one thing to vote against an individual, or even to stage a filibuster, but quite another to abdicate the Senate’s constitutionally required “advice and consent” function by refusing to extend even the minimal courtesy of a committee hearing.”
Oh really?
5 posted on
02/15/2016 2:33:37 PM PST by
Hostage
(ARTICLE V)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I once read a debate between Scalia and Tribe. Scalia was down to earth, clear and made sense. Tribe tried to impress, but made no sense whatsoever.
6 posted on
02/15/2016 2:33:42 PM PST by
ChessExpert
(The unemployment rate was 4.5% when Democrats took control of Congress in 2006.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ok, then every damned Obama supporting democrat senator has to stand down. Obama is a usurper.
7 posted on
02/15/2016 2:34:58 PM PST by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What a pantload. This guy is a perfesser?
8 posted on
02/15/2016 2:35:38 PM PST by
Fido969
("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes" - Albert Einstein)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Great point!
Cruz SHOULD recuse.... following the fine example set forth by Kagen on the ACA.
9 posted on
02/15/2016 2:36:20 PM PST by
C210N
(Supporting the Constitutional Conservative in the race. Constitutional Conservative Cruz.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It is not “constitutionally required” ....
10 posted on
02/15/2016 2:36:27 PM PST by
wny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He doesn’t have to be a natural-born citizen in order to be eligible for election to the Senate. There is no doubt that he meets the Constitutional citizenship, age and residency requirements for the office he now holds.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Liberals have no bottom floor.
12 posted on
02/15/2016 2:37:16 PM PST by
hadaclueonce
(This time it is serious.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If McConnell is true to his word, there will never be hearings, so this leftie’s opinion is moot.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The Constitution means NOTHING to these jokers when it stands in the way of some agenda they want to advance, like baby-butchery or sodomy. It’s only in cases like this that they even mention the words on the paper, and then very cynically.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This guy is embarrassing himself.
16 posted on
02/15/2016 2:40:03 PM PST by
KC Burke
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Elections have consequences.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Apparently you really can get a law degree from a box of Kracker Jack.
19 posted on
02/15/2016 2:42:34 PM PST by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
There ain’t no such a thang as conflict a interest if’n Cruz don’t know which a way the nominee would vote on Cruz’s issue. Maybe do that if Schumer recuses himself for being a jackass.
21 posted on
02/15/2016 2:44:18 PM PST by
Mike Darancette
(Obama Rules of Engagement: Hands up Don't Shoot)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
More whining from a faux intellectual-and I never heard “recusal” in reference to anything but the judiciary.
23 posted on
02/15/2016 2:49:42 PM PST by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I wonder what Lubet's take was on Justice Kagan taking part in the decision National Association of Manufacturer's v. Sebelius.
26 posted on
02/15/2016 2:54:13 PM PST by
henkster
(Hillary Clinton's supporters are beginning to realize they are fettered to a corpse.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He has to recuse himself based on a hypothethetical? ANY Senator could be tried by the Supreme Court in the future.
27 posted on
02/15/2016 2:55:56 PM PST by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics)
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