Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Reveals Her Plan to Overthrow the Supreme Court

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The real reason President Obama won’t recess-appoint Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court
Some progressive activists and commentators are understandably frustrated that the Senate refused to consider President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Some sued (making borderline frivolous claims). Others argued that Obama could simply appoint Garland without Senate consent. The problem, in both cases, is that the Senate has no constitutional obligation to consider a president’s nominees. While prior Senates largely used this power to withhold consent for lower court or executive branch nominees (leaving some judicial nominees in limbo even longer than Garland), there is no constitutional reason to treat a Supreme Court nomination differently.

Since the election, some are advancing a new strategy to place Garland on the high court: a recess appointment. This idea was floated by David Dayen in New Republic in November and endorsed this week in New York magazine by Ed Kilgore. The problem with this idea, however, is that it is clearly precluded by Supreme Court precedent and, even were this not the case, would be entirely fruitless (although not for the reasons Dayen and Kilgore suggest).

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2-thats because your compass is warped. Republicans are playing by the rules that were set in place, just as the sitting POTUS can appoint his choice. Its dems who are spinning to bypass the rules-they even want to pack the court. Its always dems that pull this stuff.

3-I am the pendulum swinging back. Can you hear me now?