Senate Has the Constitution on Its Side
Posted on | February 19, 2016 | No Comments
Senate Has the Constitution on Its Side
President Barack Obama has said “the Constitution is pretty clear about what should happen now” that Justice Antonin Scalia’s death has left a vacancy on the Supreme Court. What should happen now, he said in a press conference this week, is that he should nominate someone to fill that vacancy and then the Senate should approve or disapprove the nomination. There’s no unwritten law that says that [Supreme Court confirmations] can only be done on off years — that’s not in the constitutional text. I’m amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there.
Bloomberg
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