tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post2944215906572559025..comments2024-03-24T21:06:57.039-07:00Comments on FOUSESQUAWK: Antonin ScaliaGary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-34651397467494462682016-02-15T16:18:14.828-08:002016-02-15T16:18:14.828-08:00Squid, have you EVER in your life read the Constit...Squid, have you EVER in your life read the Constitution of the United States of America?<br /><br />(Note: this really isn't the first Supreme Court vacancy during Barack Obama's terms as President of the United States. And you know what he did the last time? He nominated someone to fill the vacancy.)Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-79362480158982930492016-02-14T14:57:30.608-08:002016-02-14T14:57:30.608-08:00Suddenly, Obama has a Constitutional obligation to...Suddenly, Obama has a Constitutional obligation to appoint a Supreme Court Justice. He claims this is his Constitutional duty as President. Obama really sees this as his opportunity to stack the Supreme Court in favor of decisions that would support liberal interests (as Siarlys states: "stack the court). <br />Too bad Obama has not followed Constitutional law, only to serve his un-Constitutional interests to "transform America". Here are some examples of his un-Constitutional moves, which the Republican controlled House and Senate allows.<br /><br />Examples include:<br />suspending implementation of the Obamacare<br />employer mandate, abdicating the Administration’s<br />duty to defend the law in court.<br /><br />Implementing the DREAM<br />Act.<br /><br />And, unconstitutional<br />“recess” appointments.<br /><br />Squid<br />Squidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-42995451733666920922016-02-14T13:53:50.910-08:002016-02-14T13:53:50.910-08:00For the past 80 years, "lame duck" has b...For the past 80 years, "lame duck" has been a term that referred to a president who has LOST AN ELECTION and has not yet left office. E.g. Jimmy Carter between Nov 8, 1980 and Jan 20, 1981. Only in the recent era of careless journalists who don't bother to fact check their work as "lame duck" expanded to the opportunistic meaning Gary offers here.<br /><br />The notion that it has been traditional not to make judicial appointments in the last full year of a presidential term, Gary has made up out of whole cloth. There is no such pattern or tradition, nor should there be one.<br /><br />I have written to both my Republican senator and my Democratic senator, and told them that I expect them both to stop the unseemly childish squabbling over filling the Supreme Court seat, and get to work. I expect the same of the White House of course.<br /><br />Obviously, President Obama's short list will be people that could never be confirmed by a majority of those in the senate. Likewise, those Mitch McConnell would dearly love to put on a fast-track for nomination will never be nominated by President Obama. Ergo, McConnell needs to put together a list of people he would move confirmation for, who he thinks might be acceptable to the president, and vice versa. Then the names which appear on both lists will be the ones from whom the president picks his nomination.<br /><br />Enough of this extra-constitutional foolishness of trying to stack the court.Siarlys Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15083839117838391267noreply@blogger.com