{"id":492,"date":"2018-07-10T22:19:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/wordpress\/almostclassical\/?p=492"},"modified":"2023-11-25T22:32:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T04:32:57","slug":"supreme-mess-of-trump-high-court-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tameri.com\/almostclassical\/2018\/07\/10\/supreme-mess-of-trump-high-court-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Mess of Trump High Court Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed to the Supreme Court 96-to-3 in August of 1993 (New York Times, 1993: Senate vote 96-3, easily affirms Ginsburg as Justice<\/a>). Republicans knew she didn\u2019t agree with them on most issues, but they did little to block her nomination. Ginsburg refused to answer questions of specific cases and sailed onto the bench.<\/p>\n

Today, 25 years later, that could not happen. Ginsburg would only be confirmed with a clear Democratic majority in the Senate. The battle would be ugly. It would also be unfair.<\/p>\n

The Republican majority that denied\u00a0Merrick Garland at least the decency of a confirmation hearing<\/a> and vote under Pres. Barack Obama only furthered the politicization of the Supreme Court. The United States is paying for the polarization us \u2014 the citizens. We created this mess, as citizens and voters.<\/p>\n

GOP voters rewarded the intransigence of\u00a0Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. There were arguments for not supporting Garland in the last year of a lame-duck term, but those don\u2019t reflect neither consistent history nor any Senate rules. No, the GOP should have held a vote, up or down, on Garland.<\/p>\n

The Constitution does not set the rules for Supreme Court confirmation. The Constitution infamously doesn\u2019t establish the number nor set terms for the justices on the high court.\u00a0The Framers should have included specifications for the Supreme Court<\/strong>, but they didn\u2019t. Maybe we should correct this\u2026 someday\u2026 but that\u2019s unlikely to happen.<\/p>\n

Democrats will resist\u00a0Judge Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s nomination<\/a> to the Court by Donald Trump. They won\u2019t stop Kavanaugh\u2019s elevation to the highest bench, but they will rally their base voters. In fact, Donald Trump could have two or more future nominations, too, cementing the Supreme Court\u2019s ideological bent for a generation.<\/p>\n

Kavanaugh, intellectually, meets every requirement to join the Court, as did Garland.\u00a0Presidents should be able to appoint qualified people to the court, promptly and with fair hearings<\/strong>. The GOP rediscovering this philosophy troubles me. They should have adhered to this principle for Garland, too.<\/p>\n

This confirmation process is only going to get worse. The Supreme Court has always been political, especially during the New Deal. We\u2019re back to the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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