Posted on 03/01/2016 1:41:17 PM PST by Nachum
President Barack Obama called Democrats and Republicans to the White House Tuesday to discuss election-year standoff over the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Neither side showed signs of budging. In an awkward Oval Office sit-down that lasted less than an hour, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, delivered their case for refusing to consider any nominee to the highest court during the throes of a presidential election. Their Democratic counterparts, meanwhile, resolved to ´continue beating the drum,´ Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid told reporters after the meeting. The gathering was the first time
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“Wow....they found ONE ball between them.”
Donald Trump’c candidacy has resulted in the GOPe having to superglue their spines in the erect posltion and stapling their nuts back on! They know that if they back down now on this issue, Trump’s going to take the White Hut in a landslide and they will all be out of their jobs.
They didn’t crumble.
Is this a joke?
They’ll cave, they always do. This is just kabuki theatre. The capitulation will go down over a weekend, bet on it..
I don’t believe McC and RyanO either; there is no reason to believe them at all.
Exactly.
House and Senate have to approve additional judges for any national court.
look at Obama’s chin uplifted in that first pic.
What a narcissist.
Yet more of the TRUMP EFFECT. He came down SOLID on this issue...he gave the GOPe the level of BACKBONE we have NEVER SEEN before in them...in this is certainly a good issue to begin that.
The “Hope and Change” bolshevik lizard ought to worry about Trump and congress impeaching and removing every commie he appointed to the bench, including the supreme court.
Speaking of courts, where does it say in the US Constitution that unelected judges can nullify or create law? It’s way past time to heal in judges writing law.
advice and consent.
Advice is to wait.
Duty fulfilled.
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