Bill Clinton has called President Trump’s decision to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court seat “superficially hypocritical.”
“You can’t possibly be surprised that Senator McConnell and President Trump are taking the position that they are,” Clinton, who appointed Ginsburg to the Supreme Court in 1993, said, adding that “They’re for whatever maximizes their power.”
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However the former president’s own party colleagues aren’t above the very same hypocrisy.
RT reports: Bader Ginsburg passed away on Friday aged 87, after a two-decade battle with cancer. Trump announced the following day that he would nominate a successor, a call backed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Clinton described the decision on Sunday as “a superficially hypocritical call,” given that McConnell had refused to hold a Senate vote on then-President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016, ten months before that year’s presidential election.
“I mean, Mitch McConnell wouldn’t give President Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, a hearing 10 months before the presidential election. And that meant we went a long time with eight judges on the court,” Clinton told CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“This is what they do,” he continued. “I think that, you know, both for Senator McConnell and President Trump, their first value is power and they’re trying to jam the courts with as many ideological judges as they can.”
However, while McConnell has drawn flak for pushing ahead with a replacement, a number of prominent Democrats have gone back on their word following the death of Ginsburg. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, for instance, badgered McConnell to hold a vote on Garland in 2016, but now insists that “this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
Likewise, Joe Biden claimed in 2016 that the Senate had a “duty” to fill the vacant seat, but argued on Friday that “the voters should pick a president and that president should pick the justices.”
Both sides have every reason to play for keeps though. Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life, and their ideological leanings shape the country beyond the presidential term in which they’re appointed. With Ginsburg dead, the court is split between three liberal and five conservative judges, though one of these conservatives, John Roberts, often sides with his liberal colleagues. Another conservative justice would secure that majority for the near future, as both liberal Stephen Breyer (82) and conservative Clarence Thomas (72) near retirement age.
Clinton accused Trump and McConnell of attempting to “jam the courts” with politically-friendly picks. However, should Trump and McConnell confirm another conservative to the bench, a number of Democrats have vowed to expand the court and fill it with their own ideological picks if they take power.
“If he holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021,” Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) tweeted on Saturday, adding “it’s that simple.” Kennedy spoke more directly than most Democrat politicians, but Schumer echoed his words later that day, telling a conference call of Senate Democrats “If Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table.”
Of course, Schumer and Kennedy’s plan hinges on Democrats taking control of the Senate in November. Even with both houses of Congress, their task would be easier with Biden in the White House. For Democrats and for Republicans, Bader Ginsburg’s death has made November’s election all the more crucial.
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Why would you listen to that liar? He is a damned fool geezer!!!
He knows he’s condemned…
I’d rather see Billy in jail, being the butt boy for Big Bubba.
The first Black president will then understand for the first time what it means to feel a Black person’s pain.
He should be condemned, but the Clinton’s seem to be above the law.
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I live in a swamp,
I have no ethics,
I would die if the swamp of trump were to be drained,
I will do anything the lord and master says,
I want the nominee in front of the senate for a vote immediately,
I don’t care if the corpse is still warm,
I have russian ties to aluminum production in KY and trump,
I could lose my russian rubles if I fail in my mandate,
I have no regard for decency and equality,
I hope the GOP will protect me from Amy for my loyalty,
I am bound for perdition,
I am without a soul,
WE WILL FILL THE SEAT
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People have business interests Tours are with Soros I d bet .Bought and paid
Fuck off, BC. Go back to embezzling charitable donations, you miserable piece of shit. Thanks for selling our country to the Chinese.
He and the Bush’s are the subjects of the books and documentaries about the Bush Clinton BODY count Its a bit more than embezzling that they should be investigated for But were not by some ” moral authorities ” decision is the only conclusion .
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I remember you were seen talking to Charlie Manson.
Trump never visited pedo island, unlike your hero Billy Boy, retard.
We all know who you of the new crew are, the fresh faces straight from Soros Express .
No sane person gives a shit about what your opinion is Slick.
Billy Boy is the supreme ass that nominated the pathological liar Ginsburg to the USSC.
Thanks for less than nothing, Billy Boy.
Now crawl back to Epstein’s pedo Island and take your zero moral authority with you.
You mean hypocritical like saying you never went to Epstein Island when we have the publicly available flight manifests?
Put that in your cigar and smoke it!!
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Errr As if they would wait till after the election if the show were on the other foot.
How dare Trump do his constitutinal duties!!!
It is up to the Senate to decide. Just like 2016. Nothing is different.
Ginsberg’s record is being re-written to benefit the narrative of any opposing side. But let’s for a moment say she was the Liberal Progressive warrior-ess and Icon that the Democrats are claiming.. Her last breath and gift to her constituency and all Americans was only about delaying the appointment of her replacement? What about health care for all, Free college tuition, Unconstitutional Wars, Immigration Policy and so much more? If her last wish carries such weight and authority wouldn’t she have gone for the Gold, so to speak? Two things equally likely here; 1) she never said anything about delaying her replacement. And 2) she DID prevail on important issues but nobody on either side wants to hear about it.
The best thing Ginsberg ever did is to take some of the thunder from the George Floyd activists.
Abe Lincoln once said the worst thing he ever did was to appoint Ginsberg to the Supreme Court.
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