so Gov. Sandoval turns it down.
wonder if it's more pressure from his repub overlords than personal preference?
It was probably a realization that he didn't want to be anyone's pawn. He had nothing to gain by accepting the nomination except for a headache.
IIRC, he was already a judge and switched to a career in politics. I.e., it seems like he's had enough of being a judge already.
I could see pressure (or just common sense) to not allow one's self, particularly a Repub politician, to be used as a pawn by Obama against the Repub party in an election year. I doubt under the circumstances hearing one's name on the news is hardly welcomed.
Fern
Remarkably twisted thinking. The only people playing games here are Repubs.
They're the only ones *winning*. Obama tried and failed (as usual) to trap the Republicans, and was immediately and embarrassingly shut down. Try not to cry
Remarkably twisted thinking. The only people playing games here are Repubs. If they win the presidency Sandoval's nomination would be a sure bet should it occur.
The only reason they'd have to turn him away now is because Obama.
They're the only ones *winning*. Obama tried and failed (as usual) to trap the Republicans, and was immediately and embarrassingly shut down. Try not to cry
He tried to trap them how, exactly? Nominating somebody they might like is a trap in what sense, other than denying them a platform from which to posture & pander?
When a sitting member of the SCOTUS passes on it is the President's duty to nominate a successor. It is the Senate's duty to advise & consent, absent serious problems with the nominee.
You seem to think that the posturing & pandering are more important than duty & love of Country.
The fact that the repubs are the ones playing games doesn't change anything. You seem to be under the illusion that the repubs are bluffing. What in the last seven years gives you that feeling?
The Republican senate should be jailed for treason for putting party interests above the welfare of the nation. Advise and consent was never meant to allow one party to block all appointments by a President of the other party.
The Republican senate should be jailed for treason for putting party interests above the welfare of the nation. Advise and consent was never meant to allow one party to block all appointments by a President of the other party.
And taking that position essentially upends the Presidents responsibility to nominate a candidate in the first place. It places the Senate powers above the powers of POTUS, with respect to Supreme Court nominations. It sets a horrendous precedent."Well, we advised the president that we aren't going to do our constitutional job, so that is us doing our constitutional job!"
And I guaranfucking-tee you that half the retards on this board see that statement as perfectly logical.
Seriously, 3rd grade students act more maturely than the current GOP members of Congress.
It's all talk at this point so I encourage Obama to make a nomination & make it real.
Hell- make it a true blue liberal to pin Repubs to their position where Dems can beat the crap out of them between now & the election. It'd rev up the base rather nicely.
I pretty much agree, although I'd point out that virtually every time the Dems don't get their way, their supporters declare that our political system no longer works. But you're certainly right that if Obama nominates a progressive activist, politician or academian, then the Pubbies have political cover to not consider that nominee. If on the other hand Obama nominates a moderate who has previously received little GOP resistance, then the Republicans will pay a political price for not holding hearings and a vote. This is as it should be; a reasonable, qualified nominee deserves honest and timely vetting, hearings and a vote. I'd even go further and say that an unreasonable nominee deserves honest and timely vetting, hearings and a vote, but that's debatable; when the Democrats were the ones obstructing, some people here argued that by not voting, they were doing their job, but I maintain that not doing one's job is not an acceptable way of doing one's job.That would be incredibly dumb. If Obama picks a moderate he will be following the "Schumer/Biden/Obama Rule" by recognizing the fact that the senate and president are at ideological odds.
Picking a "true blue liberal" would be a non-starter. It plays into the rhetoric the republicans are hoping for and when they don't vote it would energize the base.
Obama will nominate a moderate, likely one that has gained broad Republican support in the past. If McConnell and company stick to their guns against a moderate it will paint them as partisan hacks and independents will rip into any senator in a close state. If McConnell and company cave in to a moderate it might work out ok for them (the base will view it as good politics, look at this board for examples) independents might just look the other way.
What the Reps are claiming they will do has no precedence. If they actually follow through and pay no political price it will change the political landscape for generations. In such a case I don't personally believe our political system can be seen as functioning any more.
I think before a nomination is considered, Obama's nomination for attorney general should start doing here job by arresting Hillary Clinton on violations of her security clearance and sharing classified e-mails with her friends. (we call that espionage). How is she any different than Snowden?
No justice, so no supreme court justice.
Actually Condoleezza Rice did no government business on non-government email and damned little on government email. Powell, certainly, and most of the Bush and Clinton administrations. The Hildabeast is just pushing the envelope of what they all do.Then go after Condoleezza Rice and Colon Powell because they used non government email too just to a lesser extent.
**please note this isn't saying people in government should run their own email servers**
Seriously, you have to be joking. This is simply party politics. The Dems even gave us a new verb, to bork, based on making up and slinging slime. This is no different from the Dems sponsoring Anita Hill or sending dozens of operatives to dig up dirt of Palin.This has to be the dirtiest political manuvering I've seen in my lifetime:
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/republican-groups-dirt-supreme-court-nominee-219872
This is just shameful beyond any party lines.
Actually Condoleezza Rice did no government business on non-government email and damned little on government email. Powell, certainly, and most of the Bush and Clinton administrations. The Hildabeast is just pushing the envelope of what they all do.