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9/23/2020 12:44:56 PM

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Section 4: President & Congress
Subject: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Msg# 1098573

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Jim Matthews

Joined 6/10/2008

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Tom Hemmick (Read) Forum Leader

Joined 7/21/2005

OK, I get it.

So when McConnell said it Feb 2016 that “The American people must have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,“ he meant Republicans, not all American people.

And, when Graham said this in 2018: "I'll tell you this – this may make you feel better, but I really don't care – if an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait until the next election," he meant what?

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
Boils down to same party controlling Senate as the Prez VS different parties between the two. There have been plenty of historic precedents, following each of those patterns. Delay in the Garland example of similar historic cases vs moving forward in the current Ginsburg circumstances matching the historic cases.

Here's a detailed source, discussion many of such cases, from Thomas Jefferson to Obama with Garland, for anyone who wants to get down into the weeds.

Click Here

Its conclusion: "There was, in that sense, nothing unusual about the Republican Senate’s refusal to vote on Garland’s nomination; just as there is nothing unusual about a Senate immediately voting on and confirming a President’s Supreme Court nominee when both the President and the Senate majority belong to the same party. . .This is the accepted norm in American politics and has been almost since the dawn of America itself." (underline added)

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