Posted on 06/28/2018 6:24:19 AM PDT by Eddie01
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spiked the panic on the left by announcing efforts to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy before the midterms.
The Supreme Court Justice announced his retirement Wednesday, effective July 31, after more than three decades on the high court. His successor, chosen by President Trump, could transform the Supreme Court for years to come and the left is in a meltdown.
“We will vote to confirm Justice Kennedy’s successor this fall,” McConnell said on the Senate floor after the news broke.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley echoed the expectations that the nomination process would begin soon.
“For more than three decades, Justice Kennedy served with great distinction on the Supreme Court of the United States,” the Iowa Republican said in the statement, according to CNN. “I expect the President will soon nominate someone for the Senate to consider. I encourage the President to choose a nominee with the credentials, intellect and commitment to the rule of law necessary to serve on the Supreme Court.”
Democrats are already gearing up for a fight, however, as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the floor and Twitter to raise the alarm.
"Americans should make it clear that they will not tolerate a nominee chosen from President Trump’s pre-ordained list, selected by powerful special interests, who will reverse the progress we have made over the decades."
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 27, 2018
My @SenateGOP colleagues should follow the rule they set in 2016 not to consider a SCOTUS nominee in an election year. Sen McConnell would tell anyone who listened that the Senate had the right to advise & consent, & that was every bit as important as POTUS’ right to nominate.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 27, 2018
The Senate rule change allowed Supreme Court justices to be approved by a simple majority, a fact Democrats, who only control 49 seats in the chamber, are acutely aware of.
In 2016, Senate Republicans said that the American people deserve an opportunity to speak on Supreme Court nominees.
Now that Justice Kennedy is retiring and @realDonaldTrump is president, will they silence them? pic.twitter.com/nT0wtgET6O
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 27, 2018
Of course, McConnell warned Democrats back in 2013 that they would regret the so-called “nuclear option.” Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had started the process in order to change Senate rules and prevent the minority from filibustering nominations.
Here we are 5 years later… pic.twitter.com/qu6u75piMa
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) June 28, 2018
“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,” McConnell had said almost prophetically on the Senate floor.
And it seems the times have caught up with them.
The left kicked into high gear on Twitter as McConnell’s words unfolded Wednesday.
The 3,500 American County’s, 30 States and over 300 electoral votes already voted for President Donald J Trump. Their voice has already been heard for the next two-and-a-half years, probably more…
— Elections Have Consequences…WE WON!!! (@immike22) June 27, 2018
We’re going to fight this and impeach whoever gets in there. Because this will set back our country a hundred years of progress.
— Bryan Young (@swankmotron) June 27, 2018
So now it is suddenly okay to pick a new SCOTUS during an election year? Will the Republican hypocrisy ever end?
— Shayla (@Frayed_Knott2) June 27, 2018
Dem leadership MUST make it clear we’re going to fight this hard.. NO meetings. NO hearings. NO working w/ GOP. Period.
— 0. l. 2. 9. 2. l. 0. 9. (@0l12929l0) June 27, 2018
The Dems need to find a way to stall this past the elections. What is Kennedy’s hurry – is he dying? Let’s give McConnell a dose of his own medicine. Anybody Trump picks will be a joke and set SCOTUS back to the dark ages if he succeeds.
— Carl Carlton (@foxfriend2017) June 27, 2018
Chuck, I’m getting callouses on my fingers writing #PostcardsToVoters so quit talking/tweeting and get busy standing up to trump and the GOP now!
— YoursTruly (@RealDeb18) June 28, 2018
But conservatives across the nation are too busy celebrating the soon-to-be-named Trump nominee to worry about the liberal meltdown.
This just keeps getting better and better. I can almost feel the temperature boiling from Democrats
— 🇺🇸βØββ¥ ĐΞǤΞŦΔŁ🇺🇸 (@BobbyDygytal) June 27, 2018
The winning is so awesome it hurts!
— phiemenz (@phiemenz) June 27, 2018
Who nominated and confirmed a justice in 2010 during a midterm election year? Might be worth a google
— Dale Day (@Dizzy5k) June 27, 2018
Democrats, 2016: It threatens the very fabric of our democracy to delay a #SCOTUS nominee vote for 8 long months!
Democrats, 2018: Any legal way we can delay the vote for Justice Kennedy’s replacement for 29 months?
— Not Gary Peters (@PetersforSenate) June 27, 2018
Ginsburg will be soon enough.
One. Two. Three! Three SCOTUS appointments!! AH. AH. AH.
MAGA!!! 😍😍😍 #HeartReactsOnly
— Justin Lawrence (@Looftie) June 27, 2018
I am an American and I am making it known now that we want a replacement ASAP from President Trump’s Short List!!! Sorry Senator Schumer….you underestimate the Conservative base. We are not out there intimidating you Libs. as Aunt Maxine asks her crazies to do. #MAGA
— Michele Marie (@MicheleMcDermo3) June 27, 2018
I’m so happy President Trump will fix the court for yearssssssss. And you socialist being upset is just a bonus!😀🤣
— GateKeeper (@GateKeeper1776) June 28, 2018
Video of Mitch at link.
Every chance he gets, ol’ Mitch is rubbing the USSC pick into the long faces of them low-down Dems.
Nice.
I personally think it was thoughtful of Kennedy to step down just as Democrats figured they had midterm traction w/ the border stuff.
The president nominates and the senate gives consent. If the Republicans have the necessary votes, the nominee is confirmed. If they don’t have enough votes, the nomination can be delayed or stopped completely. However, they probably have the votes. Sorry Dems, but that’s how it works.
Oh, as to the so called hypocrisy of not taking up Obama’s last nominee, that’s all about having the necessary votes, too. There’s no requirement for the senate to act within a given period of time. The Dems didn’t have enough votes—due to the expressed will of American voters at the ballot box—so the Dems couldn’t get their nominee through the process. Again, it’s as simple as that.
Conservatives, you see, tend to believe in the rule of law. We don’t make it up as we go or throw tantrums when we don’t get our way.
““We will vote to confirm”
Not “whether”, but “to” confirm. That’s the spirit.
“Democrat Panic?”
They’re already panicky, hysterical, adolescent and psychotic, just itching to find an excuse to be the violent scu*bags they really are.
IMHO
The Left doesn’t worry about changing the rules of the game, or how the changes they make will play out against them in the future.
That’s because they know they can always change more rules in the future, and if things get bad enough for them they know they can always just kick over the whole game board and the table and trash the whole room.
Nice to see the faces on the Red State Dem Senators up for re-election.
Senate needs to recess and allow a recess appointment by the POTUS. We need to be on a position of not being neutered by a 4-4 SCOTUS bench while the left stalls the process.
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"Dem leadership MUST make it clear we’re going to fight this hard.. NO meetings. NO hearings. NO working w/ GOP. Period."
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And all while the cameras are rolling, hehehe.Haven't they come to realize they are their own worst enemies just months before the midterm behaving uncivilly?
This can only help the Republican candidates if they act out stupidly. But they seem to have lost their political sense in the past 18 months. Now it is time to lose some Senate and House seats over their juvenile antics?
Of course, McConnell warned Democrats back in 2013 that they would regret the so-called “nuclear option.” Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had started the process in order to change Senate rules and prevent the minority from filibustering nominations.
Here we are 5 years later… pic.twitter.com/qu6u75piMa
— Tim Young (@TimRunsHisMouth) June 28, 2018
“You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,” McConnell had said almost prophetically on the Senate floor.
And it seems the times have caught up with them.
The left kicked into high gear on Twitter as McConnell’s words unfolded Wednesday.
The 3,500 American County’s, 30 States and over 300 electoral votes already voted for President Donald J Trump. Their voice has already been heard for the next two-and-a-half years, probably more…
— Elections Have Consequences…WE WON!!! (@immike22) June 27, 2018
Schumer said, "My @SenateGOP colleagues should follow the rule they set in 2016 not to consider a SCOTUS nominee in an election year."
This was in reference to a PRESIDENTIAL election year, not mid-terms Chuck.
Wrong again.
My God. Do they not have an original thought?
Mitch sure knows how to trigger the lefties.
The ‘rule’ was set by Senate Judiciary Chairman Joe Biden in 1992, not by Republicans in 2016.
They should update the “rule” to include no SC confirmations in any year Democrat’s assassinate a conservative SC justice.
Blue Wave?
“The crowd at Trump’s Minnesota rally was 60% Democrat and Independent”
Remember that massive MAGA Trump rally last week in Duluth Minnesota? That would be the 9,000 strong rally where twice as many were turned away?
We aren’t. Court is not is session in the summer.
He who hesitates is lost.
WINNING!!
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