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:
The Supreme Court nominee was the most important issue in the presidential election.
A fact we all know!
He should have just simply said to her…. I can give you plenty of examples where I have given a worker a fair shot. But you go first because I can put you to shame you damn lunatic.
Have these elected officials ever done anything truly beneficial to the American citizens? Never seen or heard of any important benefits to Americans just for themselves. And that is both R’s and D’s!!
She’s an idiot
Seems fair and honest
Feinstein is a whore for her husbands land deals, stealing from the tax payers, millions!
She is a SAD, SAD person. It’s hard to be happy when you are that STUPID.
Allen J. Sebrechts. USN GITMO
She should go
Feinstein is a a complete fraud, milking her way to a legislative career with the power of her family’s money and never partakes of anything beneficial for the country unless she can gain some personal benefit from the action.