Clinton's judges, because he stopped some of his fellow Republicans from fighting ones they vehemently opposed"
Now the dims are lying about the Clinton nominee Paez,
He went to bat to calm his fellow R's down, said it wasn,t
right for him not to have a vote. Now they are spitting in his face. They will stop at nothing, and have no scruples !!
The Senate members in all of their supposed wisdom do not understand their duties, much less the entire Constitution. That is painfully obvious when they speak and write. Their duties are advice and consent with nothing more and nothing less. The word advice causes a bit of a problem but the definition of it is to give opinion and on that they fall short of understanding. They think their duty is to dictate to the President what person is sent or who is not sent for consent. The duty they have is part of the balance to protect the Constitution, not an exercise in choosing those with the proper socialist ideology, which they favor.
Every President takes an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. It is his sworn duty to send to the Senate nominees for the Supreme Court who are well grounded and well versed in the United States Constitution in all respects. Those nominated are not to have an agenda other than ruling by the words contained in the document to stop or prevent unconstitutional acts by the other two branches or states when called upon to do so. Conversely, if the President does not send qualified nominees, the Senate is within its power to give advice and refuse their consent. That happened when FDR tied to pack the court with his cronies so that his socialist agenda would have legal backing. (Being shut off from a scheme to regulate farm products during the depression, FDR tried to load the court with cronies to make an end run against the Constitution. That would have forged an unholy alliance destructive to every freedom we have.)
Now what is advice? It is simply a message to the President to send those who understand the Constitution and will follow it; then and only then can they give consent. Advice and consent is one of the checks on presidential power that would become too great if not reigned in by the refusal to give consent. The Senate stopped FDR with Article II as they were supposed to do.
With the power usurpation by the Senate, the nation is now hostage to a despotic rule that the founders never intended but knew could happen. That is obvious when the federal papers James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay and now the worst fears of the founders have crawled out of the closet. With direct election of Senators the power of the President has been diminished and the power of both the Supreme Court and Senate enhanced unbalancing the powers and destroying separation.
http://www.conservativeviewsandforum.com/Senate_President_page_12.htm