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:
Funkenstein is an idiot
She’s an idiot. A first class, genuine, California idiot.
Two words, Trumpkin: “frozen trucker”. Now we have to wait until some other$#%&!@*kills a conservative justice so we can make the Supreme Court human again
THEY ARE THERE IT SEAMES FOR LIFE,,, TWO TERMS,, THAT’S ALL,, NO MORE,, AFTER THAT THEY GO BRAIN DEAD,, JUST LOOK AROUND YOU,, WHAT’S GOING ON
The Democrats made a entertaining commercial for term limits during the Gorsuch hearings?
James Golden
DRAIN THAT SWAMP!! GET THE CROOKED FOSSILS OUT FOR GOOD!!! TERM LIMITS!!!!!!!
Charles your really not that stupid , or are you ? Damn boy !
TERM LIMITS!! PLEASE!!
If they really wanted Garland on the Court they should have offed Ginsburg instead of Scalia!