Justice Scalia found dead; The balance of the Supreme Court about to shift

Correct. Then Jeb or Bloomberg will nominate someone sensible and they will sail through the nomination.

 

Initially I had said impossible, but waffled a bit so as not to be a know it all.

 

And it shouldn't happen now. The dems want to push because quite a few cases are coming up and a 4-4 split means the lower court ruling stands. This would favor the right in many of these cases.

 

Are you the Anti-Red?

 

Not true...Reagan did it.

 

Kennedy?

 

Not exactly. The vacancy occurred in 1987 and Reagan nominated Robert Bork whose innacurate and callous savaging by the democrats in the senate gave rise to the term Borking and in truth started the tit for tat nomination battles of the last 30 years. Bork was eminently qualified and held positions no less radical than Ruth Ginsberg or Sonja Sotomayor and only for partisan political reasons dos democrats fight him. By the time Bork was defeated it was 1988 and Reagan nominated Kennedy who was approved. If the Ds had done what they now urge the Rs to do things would have been different.
Pot calling the kettle black here.

 

Exactly. The nomination process was begun prior to the start of Reagan's last year.

Funny ironic post here. After Bork but prior to Kennedy, there was a 9-day run by Ginsburg. He withdrew after admitting to pot smoking and all the cons went nuts. I think Reagan probably didn't care but with Nancy's just say no stupidity and the war on drugs, there is no way an admitted dope smoker would get confirmed.

 

I'm not sure where you get this info from, but I am guess it's Fox News, Brietbart or one of the other GOP Propaganda machines. Not only has a Supreme Court Justice been nominated and confirmed in an election year, but it has happened 14 times (actually 17 times, but we won't count the ones made in December, AFTER the election was completed but still technically in an election year).

They are as follows:

1. Oliver Ellsworth, 1796
2. Samuel Chase, 1796
3. William Johnson, 1804
4. Philip Barbour, 1836
5. Roger Taney, 1836
6. Melville Fuller, 1888
7. Lucius Lamar, 1888
8. George Shiras, 1892
9. Mahlon Pitney, 1912
10. John Clarke, 1916
11. Louis Brandeis, 1916
12. Benjamin Cardozo, 1932
13. Frank Murphy, 1940
14. Anthony Kennedy, 1988

125 days is the longest confirmation period for a Supreme Court Justice. I am sure that this one will break the record, but it will not take 330+ days like many here hope. Not even the current Republicans are that inept, bitter and ignorant. That would be a new low for politics.

 

MLU is right unfortunately. Republicans will piss and moan but there's no precedent for not allowing Obama to do his job.