re: #525 Backwoods_Sleuth

Too late. Trump and Cruz have already taken care of that.

For fuck sake, the second finalist for this nomination was a man that Cruz even praised. This is all about the GOP knowing that whoever Obama picked, that he or she will reverse a lot of the IMO bad decisions that Scalia was a decidiing majority on upholding a lot of things he would have reversed. It’s not principle. It’s not Obama’s fault that Scalia died in his last year in office. People die. If John Adams can appoint John Marshall after one of the most vicious elections in history or FDR can appoint Frank Murphy after two years earlier being sharply criticized by both parties for the court packing scheme, then Barack Obama should be able to get his nominee at the very least a hearing. The GOP is creating some terrible precedent for future judicial nominees here including their own. As I said don’t cry to me if this eventually does happen down the line to a respected conservative leaning jurist.