It would be a crime if Chief Judge Merritt B. Garland is not confirmed into the Supreme Court. He spoke of the fidelity to the US Constitution. He would be qualified to write opinion on the first day.
I appreciate President Obama's successful confirmation of women to the Supreme Court, but, if Judge Garland was his number 3, then it is right Judge Garland take his place.
President Obama has handed the ball to Judge Garland. He needs to make the rounds to speak to the US Senators. He needs to appeal to allies and ask for their vote. He can count and should seek a 60 vote confirmation or as close to it as he can make it.
I am confidence in Judge Garland. I am sure he'll make the connects he has to to move his nomination forward. The country is counting on him. The court needs him. He can do this, I know he can.
Like his potential colleagues Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Samuel Alito, Garland has prosecutorial experience.
In reading through some of his decisions, he is a conservative. He leans into Wall Street over labor unions.
He is already writing Supreme Court decisions:
For a long-tenured judge on a prominent court of appeals, Judge Garland has participated in few cases that resulted in Supreme Court review. The Supreme Court has not granted cert. in any case in which he wrote the court of appeals' opinion. Of the seven cases reviewed by the Supreme Court in which he has stated (or strongly implied) a position, the Justices agreed with him in four.
He agreed with George W. Bush about Gitmo. That is very much right of center.
Herman Schwartz, an American University law professor and the author of several books on the Supreme Court and conservative judicial activism, said he found Garland's early acceptance of Bush's Guantanamo Bay policy "very troubling."
"It meant that nothing that happened to those prisoners -- whether it was abusing them or holding them indefinitely -- would ever be subject to the rule of law," Schwartz said. "For the executive branch to have that kind of power over a person is unconscionable. And for a judge to accept the total irrelevance of the rule of law is a betrayal of that judge's obligation to uphold the Constitution and this nation's ideals."
That decision is considered a landmark regarding the detainees.
There is reason for Democrats to think twice about him and the decisions he has made. I think Mitch McConnell is about the most sad Republican today. He makes decisions about people like Chief Judge Garland before he knows who he is to assess for advice and confirmation. McConnell has a chance to put a right of center judge on the Supreme Court that made President Obama swallow a bitter pill in order to nominate him. It only goes to prove McConnell is not competent. He doesn't respect the US Constitution, he swears allegiance to "The Party" before the people. I can't believe McConnell is turning down Judge Garland. That is a Republican for you. I think McConnell can be impeached for the politics he plays on the taxpayer's dime. I mean let's face it, McConnell has sabotaged a perfectly qualified judge BEFORE he was even nominated. That is placing politics before the law and it is an impeachable offense. It is corruption.
HE DESERVES A VOTE!
I appreciate President Obama's successful confirmation of women to the Supreme Court, but, if Judge Garland was his number 3, then it is right Judge Garland take his place.
President Obama has handed the ball to Judge Garland. He needs to make the rounds to speak to the US Senators. He needs to appeal to allies and ask for their vote. He can count and should seek a 60 vote confirmation or as close to it as he can make it.
I am confidence in Judge Garland. I am sure he'll make the connects he has to to move his nomination forward. The country is counting on him. The court needs him. He can do this, I know he can.
Like his potential colleagues Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Samuel Alito, Garland has prosecutorial experience.
In reading through some of his decisions, he is a conservative. He leans into Wall Street over labor unions.
He is already writing Supreme Court decisions:
For a long-tenured judge on a prominent court of appeals, Judge Garland has participated in few cases that resulted in Supreme Court review. The Supreme Court has not granted cert. in any case in which he wrote the court of appeals' opinion. Of the seven cases reviewed by the Supreme Court in which he has stated (or strongly implied) a position, the Justices agreed with him in four.
He agreed with George W. Bush about Gitmo. That is very much right of center.
Herman Schwartz, an American University law professor and the author of several books on the Supreme Court and conservative judicial activism, said he found Garland's early acceptance of Bush's Guantanamo Bay policy "very troubling."
"It meant that nothing that happened to those prisoners -- whether it was abusing them or holding them indefinitely -- would ever be subject to the rule of law," Schwartz said. "For the executive branch to have that kind of power over a person is unconscionable. And for a judge to accept the total irrelevance of the rule of law is a betrayal of that judge's obligation to uphold the Constitution and this nation's ideals."
That decision is considered a landmark regarding the detainees.
There is reason for Democrats to think twice about him and the decisions he has made. I think Mitch McConnell is about the most sad Republican today. He makes decisions about people like Chief Judge Garland before he knows who he is to assess for advice and confirmation. McConnell has a chance to put a right of center judge on the Supreme Court that made President Obama swallow a bitter pill in order to nominate him. It only goes to prove McConnell is not competent. He doesn't respect the US Constitution, he swears allegiance to "The Party" before the people. I can't believe McConnell is turning down Judge Garland. That is a Republican for you. I think McConnell can be impeached for the politics he plays on the taxpayer's dime. I mean let's face it, McConnell has sabotaged a perfectly qualified judge BEFORE he was even nominated. That is placing politics before the law and it is an impeachable offense. It is corruption.
HE DESERVES A VOTE!
