Billy_Kinetta
Paladin of the Lost Hour
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Obama ‘amused’ by ‘strict interpreters of the Constitution’ inventing ways to block Scalia replaceme
Source: Reuters
President Barack Obama on Tuesday vowed to pick an indisputably qualified nominee for the Supreme Court and chided Republicans who control the U.S. Senate for threatening to block him from filling the pivotal vacancy.
Obama told senators he has a constitutional duty to nominate a new justice after Saturday’s death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and reminded them of their constitutional obligation to “do their job” and vote to approve or reject his nominee.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said the seat on the nation’s highest court should remain vacant until Obama’s successor takes office in January so voters can have a say on the selection when they cast ballots in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
“I’m amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there,” Obama said.
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Obama is 100% right! Obama is a professor in the constitution and my reading of it tells me that he is right! The idea that we need to go back 1780's is pure idiocy. Pretty much we'd have to throw away 90% of all the court cases of the past 230 years if this was even close to be true. bs.
You and your dear leader are always befuddled by anything dealing with the Constitution. The dear leader can nominate anyone he wants, then the Senate can schedule hearings at their leisure, there are no time limits placed on either constitutionally. So he can play all the word games he pleases, it means nothing.
No, I'm pretty sure it is yet another example of how repubs work for themselves and have no interest at all in governing for the American people.
Keep in mind that the DNC is rigging the delegate process to favor Clinton over Sanders. That must really suck for Sanders supporters. I imagine it's because the DNC only works for themselves, and for whom they want to win. It's sad you don't realize it.
I believe Sanders will tell the party to remedy the delegate rigging, or face him as an independent candidate.
The fact that the influential leftist-rag SALON is humming the funeral march for the Clinton campaign will add a little ammo.