July 18, 2020: Fake Out - Republicans Decide The People Won't Have a Choice in Who Joins the Supreme Court

 

7/18/20: You can’t say President Trump isn’t up to making crucial decisions in time of crisis! 

He has decided to remove the pictures of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush from the entrance hall of the White House. They will hang in a little-used dining area where no one will see them, especially Trump. Clinton’s picture reminded our thin-skinned chief executive that Hillary won the popular vote. Bush’s picture reminded Trump that none of the former presidents like him. 

Having made the tough decision, Donald knocked off work on Saturday and went golfing again at his Potomac Falls, Virginia resort.

The only presidential picture Trump wants to see is this one.

 

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IF YOU THINK BACK to 2016, when President Obama was still running the country, you may remember he had a chance – with nine months left in office – to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell refused to give his nominee a hearing and said it was up to the “people” to decide who filled the opening. If they voted for Clinton, she could fill the vacancy. If Trump won, Trump could. 

Now, Team Trump and his enablers are not only playing a different tune. They are going to toss the musicians off a cliff. 

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows made clear this week. On hearing that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was ill, he told ABC News, “I can’t imagine that if [President Trump] had a vacancy on the Supreme Court that he would not very quickly make the appointment and look for the Senate to take quick action.” 

Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, agreed that it would be a brilliant concept to ignore the people in this case, with four months to go until the next election. “Merrick Garland was a different situation,” he said. “You had the president of one party nominating, and you had the Senate in the hands of the other party. A situation where you’ve got them both would be different.” 

Sen. McConnell was even more blunt. “Yeah, we’d fill it,” he said in a February interview. (See: 6/17/19.) 

The “people” should decide? Ha. Who cares about them????

 

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NEW CASES of COVID-19, on July 18: 

67,574.