re: #109 Blind Frog Belly White

That IS precisely what the Senate is doing. His job is to fill the positions, as long as the Senate accepts his nominee. The Senate is refusing to consider ANY nominee. And they’re not playing around about it, either. They bluntly stated they would not spend any time considering any nominations - not even meeting with the nominee, let alone holding hearings or a vote.

The Senate is not stopping Obama from making a nomination. If attempted, e.g., by passing a law to the effect that a president in the last year of office can’t even make a nomination, that would certainly be unconstitutional.

The Senate is saying, with an unprecedented level of dickishness, that all such nominations are pointless because none will ever get the advice and consent of the Senate.

Again, what exactly about this nonsense is unconstitutional?

The reason I’m harping on this is that if something is unconstitutional, one of the remedies to consider is filing a law suit. If something odious is constitutional, the lawsuit is a waste of time and resources that would be better spent on political agitation against the perpetrators of the outrage.

Plus I don’t like giving RWNJs easy points for swatting down loose talk about this being unconstitutional.