Posted on 09/22/2020 9:37:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Washington Republican Senator Mitt Romney of Utah indicated Tuesday he supports moving forward with consideration of a Supreme Court nominee during an election year, providing crucial backing to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as he proceeds with filling the vacancy on the high court just weeks before Election Day.
"The Constitution gives the President the power to nominate and the Senate the authority to provide advice and consent on Supreme Court nominees," Romney said in a statement. "Accordingly, I intend to follow the Constitution and precedent in considering the president's nominee. If the nominee reaches the Senate floor, I intend to vote based upon their qualifications."
Romney noted that the historical precedent of nominations made to the Supreme Court during an election year is for the Senate not to confirm the nominee put forth by the opposing party, but to confirm the pick of its own.
"My decision regarding a Supreme Court nomination is not the result of a subjective test of 'fairness' which, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder," he said. "It is based on the immutable fairness of following the law, which in this case is the Constitution and precedent."
Romney's support for proceeding with the confirmation process for a successor to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday, provides McConnell with the backing needed from his party to move to fill the vacant seat swiftly. Just two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, have said they are opposed to confirming a new Supreme Court justice before the November 3 election. Four Republicans would need to defect in order to block a nominee.
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Let’s not celebrate too soon.
My exact thought.
I clicked on the post just to see who else would say what I was thinking.
NO.......CONSCIOUS RULES.
This never could have happened without DJT, and it’s the powerful love that we supporters have for DJT that gives him his power, and we love him because DJT powerfully supports US! ... the rest of the spineless GOP has now figured out that it’s total political suicide to go against DJT because they’re going against us when they go against DJT ...
This is the exact situation that we conservatives have been praying for for decades as we suffered through uniparty “lesser-evil” RINO globalist liars and traitors like the Bushs, McCain and Romney and the multitude of lesser (but similar) lights in the Senate and the House ...
Many conservatives have argued for a 3rd party but i always believed a third party was an impossibility for success and instead promoted the idea of someone somehow hijacking the apparatus of the GOP, but not knowing who or how that could happen ... now we know ...
Romney ‘supports holding the vote”
He won’t tell us in advance WHAT HIS vote will be.
I cant seem to find it right now, but in another statement, Romney was even more accommodating.
He said that he will [paraphrasing] support whatever process and timetable the President and Senate Leadership settle on.
To me, it sounded like he is perfectly fine with scheduling the confirmation before the election.
THANK YOU, MITT!
NOW, LET US GOTTERDONE!
I hear you!
Some positions are hard to determine...
D&C 49:18-19 18 And whoso forbiddeth to abstain from meats, that man should not eat the same, is not ordained of God; |
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D&C 89:12-13
12 Yea, flesh also of beasts and of the fowls of the air, I, the Lord, have ordained for the use of man with thanksgiving; nevertheless they are to be used sparingly; |
He's been taught to do that from early childhood
Perhaps that is why most Mormons vote Conservative.
Don’t pull the Liberal level; Choose the Right!
The most probable “compromise” will be a vote out of Judiciary with the floor vote in late November or early December.
If, as seems inevitable, the GOP loses the Senate, the nominee will not be confirmed. McConnell will have kept his pledge of a floor vote, Romney, Sasse, etc can switch for “fairness” because “the people have spoken” and vote “no”.
I hope I’m wrong, but you never lose if you bet on the GOP slithering away from a win to their comfy position as losers.
Cash out your chips.
She's gone.
Hurry-up offense
God will NOT ignore the millions of cries of the unborn!
Retribution IS coming...
It’s pretty much guaranteed.
It’s also pretty much guaranteed the Dems take the Senate without her winning.
Linda and the Turtle need to man up and do what their supporters want them to do, which is to EXPEDITE the entire process. The vast majority of my family and friends want it FINISHED by 10/20, OR SOONER!
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