Obama on filling Ginsburg's seat: Apply rules with consistency
Source: nbc news
"A basic principle of the law and of everyday fairness is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on whats convenient or advantageous in the moment," Obama wrote.
Remembering the life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sept. 19, 2020, 12:16 AM CDT By Phil Helsel
In paying tribute to the service and legacy of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former President Barack Obama also called on Senate Republicans to wait to fill the seat until after inauguration day.
"Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldnt fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in," Obama wrote.
"A basic principle of the law and of everyday fairness is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on whats convenient or advantageous in the moment.
"The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard," Obama wrote................................
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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/obama-filling-ginsburg-s-seat-apply-rules-consistency-n1240521?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
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CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)usaf-vet
(6,181 posts)Seriously?! President Obama FAIRNESS? Fairness is not in the Republican vocabulary then OR NOW!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)the war will not be won by consistency or fairness or failure to take and use an advantage.
Ethics and morals are relative even while they proclaim moral absolutism and family values.
jalan48
(13,863 posts)Walleye
(31,017 posts)niyad
(113,281 posts)rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)LisaM
(27,806 posts)I know it wasn't his style, but he should have taken the case to the people. It couldn't have hurt.
Sneederbunk
(14,290 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,915 posts)The optimism of youth! 😂😂
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)Obama is screaming in the wind here, it's a very impractical idea that flies in the face of Republicans' actions over many decades.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,672 posts)They repubs reset the rules to benefit themselves and they say Ok, next time it will be fairly applied, all the while winking at their supporters.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,853 posts)Obama needs to point out the hypocrisy, and use that word.
volstork
(5,400 posts)good luck with that.
Le Roi de Pot
(744 posts)The only rule they follow is - bend /break/ create nee rules to get what you need .
So they are being consistent. No?
dlk
(11,561 posts)McConnell would hold the vote on Monday, if he could.
Shermann
(7,413 posts)The hens are going to have to form some sort of defense on their own here.
BeyondGeography
(39,370 posts)Kali
(55,007 posts)Yeehah
(4,587 posts)is to do anything and everything, no matter how low, to increase their power. The Dems have played nice with these motherfuckers for WAY too long.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)But, he knows.
He has dealt with them on the state and federal level for 20 years. He knows that Republicans are a bunch of pig-fucking, lying shitbags.
He's just too classy to say it in public.
tman
(983 posts)He's not speaking the congress, he's speaking to swing state voters.
Capt. America
(2,477 posts)That said, Ginsburg should have also retired during his term.
People please stop thinking that McConnell will uphold his own "rule". Republicans are immune to hypocrisy and so are their voters.
RBGForever
(30 posts)He truly believed they would do their job and wouldn't try and make it political.
CrispyQ
(36,461 posts)That's their only rule. Will we ever learn or will we always be looking forward in order to heal the nation? If we get the WH, the Senate & keep the House, the dems better go bold & prove once and for all there IS a difference between the two parties. I'm not holding my breath, since BOLD isn't our style. We haven't been bold since the 60s.