Trying to play nice! I guess he’s already forgotten what the Dimms did over the few weeks. My guess, he’ll be replaced as chair right after the midterms.
McConnell doesn’t need the Judiciary committee for the ‘advise and consent’ component of the Constitution. It’s only ‘rules’ of the Senate that make the committee necessary.
Turtle can bring ANY nominee to the full Senate at his discretion.
I believe this is Grassley’s sense of fair play shining through. Because McConnell used the Biden rule to prevent a nominee from being considered because 2016 was a Presidential election year; Grassley feels this Senate, if it’s in the majority in 2020 should not put forth a nominee using the same Biden rule.
I actually get it. What’s good for the goose... Sure, the circumstances would be somewhat different but the basic Presidential election year Biden rule would be the same, although it would not be Trumps last possible term and (assuming) the republicans would be still in the senate majority would be different.
I agree with Grassley on this in the name of fair play. Sometimes it’s best to be magnanimous to prove one plays fair. The dems would have ignored Biden’s rule and pushed through Merrick. We (theoretically) have an opportunity to show we are better than the dems by playing by the same rules.
I believe if we hold the majority in the senate at that time; it would help keep it that way for the 2020 elections.
Bait to get ginsberg to retire or die.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg will only need little more than a year of life support. However if Trump wins in 2020, she may have to be converted to some form of life support with flashing lights for answers like Capt.Pike in Star Trek.
like Momma used say - “never say never.”
wont consider a nominee? what is he talking about? someone tell this jackass its not up to him. they dont have a choice. if he refuses then just swear in the nonminee and seat him on the bench. the senate could reject a particular nominee but thet cant stop the president from filling the vacancy. if grassley needs clarification on this then the president could send it to the supreme court. ha, lol
He’s trying to be consistent. Applying the same rules in 2020 that they used in 2016.
He’s not going to have to wait that long. RBG is obviously terminally ill. She needs to bow out. She’ll never last till 2020. As I’ve said before, I doubt she’ll last the winter.
Whether it’s her next, or one of the others, President Trump will probably get another two picks. Three, if the prophecy is accurate. Definitely three if he wins a second term.
Isn’t MConnell Grassley’s boss?
What Would The Democrats Do? in the same position.
What a pathetic idiot!
Probably because of the Garland flap...would be same situation and perhaps he sees the fight as a potential damage to Trump’s reelection campaign..
They blocked Garland because they did not like Garland, and they had the votes.
Does Grassley think that if the Dims had the Whitehouse now, had just won the nomination of two new justices chosen by Hillary Clinton, that the Dims would hold off any more nominations by Clinton in 2020??? Someone needs to remind Grassley he would be doing what the Dims NEVER would do - give away an advantage that their votes did not require them to do.
Grassley is the kind of RINO the Dims love, because he will always be bipartisan when they never would be.
2020 is not 2024, so it’s not the same as what the republicans did. The idea is that the president is a lame duck so we are positive there will be a new president, who will have their own pick, and it lets the electorate decide which candidate they want to do the picking.
In 2020, one of the candidates will be the person who already picked the court nominee, and will have been elected to do just that.
Pledges to raise $3million for Rinos and won’t take up the vote. Ditch Grassley 2019!
This is why the GOP loses.
Play the game. Be good, not nice.
Stop letting the other side dictate the rules.