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Originally Posted by Psionide
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Can't wait to see republicans try to obstruct this and once more show their hypocrisy. Republicans are all about the constitution and limited government until it goes against what they want.
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Yea it's just too good.
Scalia himself was a strict constructionist and likely would have disapproved of the Senate impeding the President's appointment of a Supreme Court Justice for political reasons.
Appointments clause:
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Originally Posted by US Constitution
[The President] shall nominate, and, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
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It would take a real shitbag, like a Clarence Thomas type, to interpret
Advice and Consent of the Senate as "We get to completely ignore your nominations, whether they are qualified or not, so that we can stall for the next President".