As reported in the QCT today Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley told Supreme Court Obama nominee Merrick Garland in person that the Senate won’t advance his nomination “during this hyper-partisan election year.” That is as it should be.
In their constant drum beat about this matter Democrats will conveniently skip how Senator Grassley met with Judge Garland with the purpose to advise him that there would be no consent to filling the vacancy at this time. Grassley told him the truth.
Democrats always seem eager to invoke Harry Truman so I’m sure at some point we’ll hear them say they’re not giving Chuck Grassley hell over the Supreme Court nomination process, they’re just telling the truth and it feels like hell.
They’d be best to remember another Truman quote, “The only thing new in this world is the history you don’t know.”
It’s not that Democrats criticizing Grassley don’t know their recent history, it’s that they’ve conveniently forgotten it. Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and all the other current and former Senate Democrats wailing about the Senate Republicans’ decision to delay action on the Merrick Garland nomination all favored delaying Republican nominees in the past.
When it comes to their latest, expedient position on Supreme Court nominees, Maybe the Democrats are following another Truman adage, “Always be sincere, even when you don’t mean it.”
Stick to your guns, Senator Grassley. We do not want another Barack Obama appointee on the U.S. Supreme Court. You gave Obama’s nominee more consideration then he deserves especially because of Obama’s and Merrick’s views of the Constitution, but also because of the Democrats’ own rationale about the timing.
R Mall and EW
