"Now, to make sure there is a full, nine-member Supreme Court to interpret the law and to protect the rights of all Americans, I urge the Senate to move quickly and decisively in confirming Justice Anthony Kennedy to the highest court in the land, and to also confirm 27 nominees waiting to fill vacancies in the federal judiciary."Ronald Reagan is widely and routinely invoked as the greatest president in modern history by most Republicans -- the same ones who now say filling the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Scalia's death should wait until next year so that the American people can speak through the election this fall. That would mean the process couldn't even begin until a year from now -- meaning the seat would be vacant for perhaps 18 months or so.
In addition, in 1977 Mitch McConnell wrote an article in the Kentucky Law Journal in which he lamented the politicization of the judicial nominating process and said: "altering the ideological directions of the Supreme Court would seem to be a perfectly legitimate part of a Presidential platform. To that end, the Constitution gives to him the power to nominate."
In 2016, McConnell was the first to call for the nomination to wait for the next president in 2017 -- obviously because he fears President Obama's nominee would alter the ideological direction of the Court.
Hmmm. I believe it is spelled "h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y."
Ralph,
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