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Last Topic: 10:15:22pm, 10/28/2023
Last Post: 8:23:49pm, 02/15/2022
furb posted...
Not quite accurate.
The argument is, and there is history behind it. No supreme court justices have been confirmed (or virtually none) when the president is a different party than the controlling party in the Senate in the final two years of the president's term.
It's not a law but a sort of tradition.
Republicans controlled Senate after Scalia died. No hearings for Obama's nominee.
Kavanaugh and Barret came in the last two years of Trump's admin, but Republicans controlled the executive and senate.
I know its minuatia and I am not saying it is the transcendentally "right" thing. I just want to properly contextualize the situation.
This didn't sound right, so I looked it up. There have been plenty of justices confirmed in the final two years by an opposing party senate.
In the past 50 years - Clarence Thomas, Anthony Kennedy, and John Paul Stevens were nominated by a Republican president and confirmed by Democrat senates in the final two years of the president's term.
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