Re: Al Franken has a very short memory
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In article <0d444000-da0c-49c7-a239- [email protected]> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/total-hypocrisy-franken-pushes-back-on-gop-strategist-over-scotus/vi-AA11Guqf?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6eadf5db34574b4e8bc4502487c027cd > > It was the Democrats who started the politicization of the Supreme Court > confirmation process when the torpedoed the nomination of Robert Bork. They > tried again and failed to do the same to Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh. > In order to get Neil Gorsuch confirmed, it was necessary for the Republicans to > eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. > > As far as the Democrats refusing to confirm a Republican nominated nominee > during an election year, the only reason that hasn't happened is because no > such vacancies came up. However, when Joe Biden was chairman of the > Senate Judiciary committee in 1992 he stated that if a vacancy came up in the last year of Bush41's term his committee would not consider a Bush > nominee. Chuck Schumer did the same in the last year of Bush43's term. The strategy is okay as long as Democrats employ it. It's "wrong" when any other party does the exact same thing. The world would be a better place without Democrat dishonesty.