Is that how it works? Or is some deference given to the
Posted on: September 25, 2018 at 15:22:17 CT
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president's nominee and barring some disqualifying issue, he/she gets seated...?
Are there new rules in 2018 that did not exist previously? Certainly not for any democrat nominees.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was the lead lawyer for the ACLU. She was confirmed 96-3. The assumption had always been that we were all on the same page. That both parties wanted the constitution followed and america's best interest served.
That at least was what the naive republicans believed as they approved ginsberg and obama's two lesbian gorillas.
The socialists meanwhile stopped bork on political grounds and nearly did the same to clarence thomas.