President Obama nominates Merrick Garland for Supreme Court

[RobDownSouth]

President Obama has nominated Appeals Court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy left by the timely demise of "Justice" Antonin Scalia.
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I think he is a good pick.

Edited to add:
Senator Orrin Hatch lectured the Federalist Society last week , daring President Obama to nominate a fine man like Merrick Garland, but stating Obama would likely nominate a black or woman ("Nigger or cunt" in Republican-speak)>

 

[phrodeau]

Mitch McConnell obviously believes that Supreme Court justices should be elected by popular vote.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Garland is Jewish so the RWCJ can reject him for his lack of Catholicism.

 

[RUlookingup]

Garland is Jewish so the RWCJ can reject him for his lack of Catholicism.

I think I saw Merrick Garland hanging along the Sunrise Highway around Christmastime

 

[JackLuis]

Fox analyst: Obama is so divisive he nominated a SCOTUS justice Republicans like

A Fox News legal analyst described Supreme Court nominee as a conservative — even as he urged Republicans to block his confirmation and accused President Barack Obama of politicizing the process.

Andrew Napolitano, the conservative network’s senior legal analyst, described appeals court judge Merrick Garland as “the consummate Washington, D.C., insider who has worked for both Republicans and Democrats.”

“Judge Garland is the most conservative nominee by a Democratic president in the modern era,” Napolitano said.

He said Garland’s 19-year track record as a federal prosecutor during President George H.W. Bush’s administration and then as an appellate court judge could offer plenty of ammunition for GOP senators to keep him off the Supreme Court.

Orwellian doublespeak is alive and well. WHy? Well:

Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court Judge, may have a self interest in seeing the process stalled until after the possible election of Donald Trump as president.

Roger Stone, a conservative political consultant and casino lobbyist recently banned from CNN over his sexist and racist tweets, said earlier this month that Napolitano was “probably Trump’s number one pick for the U.S. Supreme Court.”

 

[sr71plt]

Yeah, that Obama is one evil dude.

 

[RUlookingup]

Yeah, that Obama is one evil dude.

He is playing politics. Wake up pilot.

 

[phrodeau]

He is playing politics. Wake up pilot.

If by making an adult choice to contrast the childish response from McConnell is playing politics, then yes.

 

[RUlookingup]

If by making an adult choice to contrast the childish response from McConnell is playing politics, then yes.

I wasn't speaking to you.

 

[phrodeau]

I wasn't speaking to you.

I didn't hear you speaking.

 

[sr71plt]

He is playing politics. Wake up pilot.

Because you want to continue your sleep?

Evil, evil man. Choosing to nominate a moderate rather than a liberal. One who was brought up through the Republican nomination process and eulogized ten years ago by Orrin Hatch. He is such an evil man. Being reasonable obviously means he's up to something. He's always up to something--training terrorists or forging his birth certificate, or something.

 

[JackLuis]

Top Senate Republican says Obama chose to ‘politicize’ Supreme Court nomination

“It seems clear that President Obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for purposes of the election,” McConnell said on the floor of the Senate after Obama announced his choice at the White House.

Yes Obama nominated a Conservative so the Senate would look stupid for not jumping at the chance to confirm another Conservative. He's out to make Mitch look stupider than he is, but it's a major challenge.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Top Senate Republican says Obama chose to ‘politicize’ Supreme Court nomination



Yes Obama nominated a Conservative so the Senate would look stupid for not jumping at the chance to confirm another Conservative. He's out to make Mitch look stupider than he is, but it's a major challenge.

McConnell also added...

"War is Peace,
Freedom is Slavery,
Ignorance is Strength!"

-Rob "We have always been at war with eastasia" DownSouth

 

[RUlookingup]

I didn't hear you speaking.

Don't get froggy Frodo.

 

[JackLuis]

Defiant Mitch McConnell Holds Merrick Garland’s Severed Head Aloft In Front Of Capitol Building

‘We Meant What We Said,’ Says Blood-Covered Senate Leader

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WASHINGTON—Declaring that the president had been warned about naming a justice during an election year, a defiant Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly held up the severed head of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland this afternoon while standing in front of the Capitol building. “We vowed that no nominees would be considered,” said McConnell, his suit reportedly splattered with blood as he flung the centrist appeals court judge’s bespectacled head aside and kicked it down the Capitol steps. “There shall be no hearing. Do not attempt to silence the voice of the American people.”

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Fox analyst: Obama is so divisive he nominated a SCOTUS justice Republicans like



Orwellian doublespeak is alive and well. WHy? Well:

Garland will be the 4th Jew on the Court.

 

[JackLuis]

Garland will be the 4th Jew on the Court.

Wow, so many Jewish Lawyers and so few Supremes?

Well Moses was the law giver, I suppose it fits.

 

[DooleyDarter]

*L* the fucking dems hate it when their chickens come home to roost

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Wow, so many Jewish Lawyers and so few Supremes?

Well Moses was the law giver, I suppose it fits.

I spent lotsa years observing lawyers and judges, and many were Jews. I never saw one who made me think WOW! All were kinda average, like the rest. A Jew comes with a liberal bent that favors assfreaks and frowns on the 2nd amendment.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

*L* the fucking dems hate it when their chickens come home to roost

What chickens would those be? The Democrats never refused to have a hearing or to vote on a SCOTUS nominee.

 

[JackLuis]

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"He he, Suck on that Mitch."​

 

[JackLuis]

Obama cautions that Republicans’ blocking SCOTUS nomination may have future repercussions

President Obama predicted Saturday that the next Republican president will face political payback from Democrats if Senate Republicans refuse to allow a vote on his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.

Denying Judge Garland a vote "would indicate a process for nominating and confirming judges that is beyond repair," Mr. Obama told Americans in his weekly address.

"It would make it increasingly impossible for any president, Republican or Democrat, to carry out their Constitutional function," the president said. "To go down that path would jeopardize our system of justice, it would hurt our democracy, and betray the vision of our founding."

But Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican, said the Senate GOP will wait for the next president to select a nominee "so the American people can weigh in on this important decision."

"This is about principle, not the person the president has nominated," Mr. Tillis said in the Republicans' weekly address.

So President Clinton can nominate Obama and her Democratic Senate will confirm him then?

 

[about_average]

I have it on good authority that Garland is an "anti-gun nut" LOL

 

[Hypoxia]

President Obama predicted Saturday that the next Republican president will face political payback from Democrats if Senate Republicans refuse to allow a vote on his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Merrick Garland.
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But Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina Republican, said the Senate GOP will wait for the next president to select a nominee "so the American people can weigh in on this important decision."

So President Clinton can nominate Obama and her Democratic Senate will confirm him then?

1) The GOP are probably aware that no GOP president will be elected in the next generation. Demographics are totally against them. Thus they have no fear of payback for stonewalling.

2) The American people already weighed in by electing Obama twice. The GOP have never accepted Obama as a legitimate president, as an American, as a human being, so their fucktard obstructionism is justified. Duh.

3) I thought Obama wanted the UN but I suppose he'd take SCOTUS. BTW there's a precedent. Wm H Taft was much better as Justice than President.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Wow, so many Jewish Lawyers and so few Supremes?

Well Moses was the law giver, I suppose it fits.

Youre a coward, Jack. Basketball is nuthin but niggers, and the Supremes are all Jews and Mackerel Snappers, and you see no problem.