Last year, Senate Republicans played a dangerous game with the Supreme Court. This year, it seems to have paid off in more ways than one. They’re getting the pick they wanted — and they’re aggravating their liberal colleagues in the process.
When Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed last year, the bench faced a predicament it had avoided for decades. For the first time in several administrations, the White House had the opportunity to upend the ideological balance of the nation’s highest court.
Or, they thought they did, anyway.
Republicans refused to hold hearings for Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Instead, they argued that the next president — whoever that may be — should be the one to fill the vacancy. The GOP leadership were betting that the polls were wrong and that Donald Trump would stage an incredible come-from-behind victory.
When he did, all eyes turned to Trump — whose conservative credentials were questioned by many mainstream Republicans for the duration of the campaign.
But if you need proof that Trump nominated a capable constitutionalist to the court, watch him take down California Senator Dianne Feinstein on the next page:
She’s so far out of her league!!!
_s What an$#%&!@*she is
when she claimed she had been a senator for 18 years so she knew the Constitution better than Cruz we know all we need to know about this idiot.
Yo Jill, get over it you did not win the 2016 US Presidential Election; you wasted millions of your supporters money to prove that you did not win the 2016 US Presidential Election; you obviously do not understand much about how the ‘Electoral College’ works…and you are at the penacle of your political career and cannot go any further in your political career.
Republicans played a game they were required to play in the final year. Democrats played a game of spite they had no business playing.
Feinstein let the CIA wiretap her own Senate committee lead by Obama. Said nothing ??? What a Ca.democrat cockroach old hag!!!
Can’t the democrats just sit down and work with the republicans for we the people??
Isn’t Diane Feinstein the same one who said the Constitution was written at the time of the Salem witch trials?
dried up bitter old hags does not a good steward for the people make
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS BRAIN DEAD !!!!