"let the people decide"

[handmade34]

Mitch McConnell said today... and I suggest a massive letter writing, postcard sending, email communication, phone call movement to our Senators (and Mitch McConnell) to let them know that we have decided... we want them to do their job...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2016_03/message_to_millennials_bernie059844.php


http://www.contactingthecongress.org


http://civilrights.org/action_center/resources/calling-congress.html

[beachbumbob]

1. The senate denying the president his rights under the constitution

The people spoke twice on this already... Time to make conservatives pay the price for the racist actions

[Igel]

4. "His rights" extend to having his nominee considered.

Obama was going to filibuster Alito to prevent an up-or-down vote. Why? Because he disagreed with "judicial philosophy." Details didn't matter.

Another nominee around the same time was basically rejected without much ado. She had good grades from the ABA, which had been cited as the "gold standard" under Clinton, and again under Obama. But under Bush II, the ABA's rating system was apparently in temporary disrepair.

Nominees for lower courts would flounder for years, and in some cases never had hearings in the judiciary committee or, if they passed out of committee, never had votes scheduled. And, no, there's no real distinction between SCOTUS and appeals court nominees as far as process or appointment authority goes.

That's when (D) ran the show. One has to remember that the "nuclear option" that was much vilified a decade ago was threatened against precisely (D) blocking judicial nominations. Of course, a few years later the horrible nuclear option was a grand and glorious thing.

I get whip-lash sometimes. On the other hand, the real problem is that nobody remembers what happened. If you have a small window of experience to draw on, then there's no real apparently contradiction. What happened a decade ago simply never happened, because what you see is all there is.

[Skittles]

2. THE PEOPLE DID DECIDE, WHEN THEY ELECTED OBAMA - *TWICE*

McConnell is a racist piece of SHIT

[pat_k]

3. Mitch McConnell DC Fax [phone]

Faxes can be more effective than email. So send a fax today!

eFax has a no obligation thirty-day trial
https://www.efax.com/lp/free-trial

And find your Senator's fax number
http://www.senate.gov/index.htm

"The American people are perfectly capable of having their say on this issue, so let's give them a voice. Let's let the American people decide. The Senate will appropriately revisit the matter when it considers the qualifications of the nominee the next president nominates, whoever that might be," McConnell said.

http://www.npr.org/2016/03/16/470664561/mcconnell-blocking-supreme-court-nomination-about-a-principle-not-a-person

[Solly Mack]

5. K&R