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The McConnell Rule is law and Senate Democrats should sue to enforce it
The Hill ^ | 7-8-18 | Ken Levy

Posted on 07/08/2018 7:13:17 AM PDT by slumber1

This week, President Trump will announce his nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised to schedule the nominee’s confirmation hearings for this fall, before the midterm elections.

If and when McConnell carries through on this promise, Senate Democrats should immediately file a federal lawsuit against him for violating the so-called “McConnell Rule.”.....

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; court; democrat; republican; senate; trumpscotus
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To: Artemis Webb

So he derives a “RULE” when McConnell says, the people should have a voice.... Ok lets see how this would play out...

Judge:” What did you mean when you said that?

McConnell, “ That the people should voice their opinions through their representatives...”

Judge “ Case dismissed”


61 posted on 07/08/2018 9:36:43 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: slumber1

They had to go all the way down to Louisiana State University School of Law in order to find someone to make an argument this idiotic. I’m sure they could find a sympathetic federal judge in Hawaii though, who could be persuaded to issue a nationwide injunction . . .


62 posted on 07/08/2018 9:54:13 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Thank You Rush

What do you want to know about him?


63 posted on 07/08/2018 10:00:14 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Artemis Webb

Fits right in with the Hill’s mentality nowadays.


64 posted on 07/08/2018 10:20:07 AM PDT by falcon99
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To: slumber1

Law?? Democrats and GOPe are the most delusional half-wits on the face of the earth. When did they vote on this “law”?

We truly need national term limits on these self-serving bastards.


65 posted on 07/08/2018 10:26:25 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: slumber1
Clearly, the validity of this rule change would be a constitutional question, rather than a political question, because it implicates a fundamental democratic principle: majority rule.

In their tiny mind, perhaps.
That is mob rule, not a Representative Republic.

The United States of America is a Representative Republic.

Deal with it!

66 posted on 07/08/2018 11:08:53 AM PDT by publius911 (Rule by Fiat-Obama's a Phone and a Pen)
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To: slumber1

bkmk


67 posted on 07/08/2018 11:11:32 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine. #FreeTommy)
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To: BRL

When she goes AND the Repubs have a few more Senate seats they pick up this November, it’s going to get real.


68 posted on 07/08/2018 11:15:13 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: slumber1

McConnell made it clear that he was referring to Presidential elections in a March 20, 2016, interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. He said:

“So, all we’re doing, Chris, is following a long standing tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year.”


69 posted on 07/08/2018 11:29:27 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: slumber1

These are exactly the type of cases that the higher courts hate to take and avoid if possible. It’s political calculus that has a remedy through legislation. The Senate is given the ability on how it conducts business and that means the Senate Majority leader schedules what the agenda is.


70 posted on 07/08/2018 11:32:27 AM PDT by Fhios (♫ Oh Where have you been Jeffy boy Jeffy boy oh where have you been charming Jeffy?)
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To: slumber1

These are exactly the type of cases that the higher courts hate to take and avoid if possible. It’s political calculus that has a remedy through legislation. The Senate is given the ability on how it conducts business and that means the Senate Majority leader schedules what the agenda is.


71 posted on 07/08/2018 11:34:11 AM PDT by Fhios (♫ Oh Where have you been Jeffy boy Jeffy boy oh where have you been charming Jeffy?)
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To: slumber1
It's not law; it's in Article I of the Constitution that each chamber makes its own rules. There is nothing a court can do about it.

-PJ

72 posted on 07/08/2018 11:40:09 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: slumber1

“A Senate rule is not a law, and a statement by a Senator is not a rule.”

the author is an idiot ...


73 posted on 07/08/2018 12:37:44 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: slumber1

This from the crowd threatening to stack the SCOTUS should they ever return to power...


74 posted on 07/08/2018 1:20:37 PM PDT by luv2ski
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To: Artemis Webb

The Hill is the biggest scum out there. They would give Stalin and Beria a platform.


75 posted on 07/08/2018 1:59:13 PM PDT by Luke21 (The Hill sucks.)
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To: slumber1

It is way past time for Congress to exercise its oversight powers on the judiciary by by censoring and impeaching some for bad conduct in office.


76 posted on 07/08/2018 2:17:53 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: slumber1

So because Mitch made a statement, it’s now a law? Wow!

Such stunning ignorance it’s hard to believe anyone published this.


77 posted on 07/08/2018 3:07:10 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: kiryandil

“”What do you want to know about him?””

The article was “opinion” - I simply wondered what his background was. Too many to choose from so I still don’t know.


78 posted on 07/08/2018 3:21:58 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
Boy, did you attract the attention of the correct Freeper:

Levy is a vicious, lying little punk masquerading as a college law professor.

He blocked a Constitutional lawyer on Twitter for having the nerve to ask him to cite the section of the Constitution buttressing his "argument".

Boy needs the baby Harp seal cure in a bad way.

Twitter account:
https://twitter.com/tardigrade18

Linkedin page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-levy-6038925

Anything else?

79 posted on 07/08/2018 9:11:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: kiryandil

I can’t decide if you are being sarcastic or serious - with your PM and this. I was merely curious WHICH of the names by googling was the guy who wrote the article. Why was that so difficult? I still don’t know from your replies. Asking me if I wanted his parents address? That’s quite a bit far out. I thought it was a simple question. Forget I asked.


80 posted on 07/09/2018 6:47:53 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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