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Originally posted by scoreman
AGAIN?
The nomination of Supreme Court justices come from the Executive branch. The Senate is not in a position to confirm what is not offered.
I do not want a situation where the Executive branch gets proactive in deal making with Senators to get Mr Conservative Candidate confirmed. This has always been the case in Washington and you can expect that if Bush wins, he will be cutting deals and doling out the Pork to get his nominations confirmed even if the Senate moves to a much stronger Democrat position.
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I agree with you on that.
The dems won't be able to block and filibuster a supreme court nominee the way they've done with the appointments to the circuit and appeals courts.
A vacancy on the supreme court will generate way too much negative press if the dems use stalling tactics.
If as projected the republicans keep control of the senate they'll have the votes to ram through another Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
Then there will be hell to pay for our industry, civil liberties in general, and for people's RIGHT TO PRIVACY, which is arguably the most important issue the court will have to deal with in the next decade.
