Make the U.S. Senate Reject SCOTUS nomination until after 2020 Election
Make the U.S. Senate Reject SCOTUS nomination until after 2020 Election
The Issue
On September 18, 2020, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. Senator Mitch McConnell (R- KY) has already stated he will push a vote forward for any replacement that President Donald J. Trump nominates. However, in 2016, Senator McConnell blocked then President Barrack Obama's replacement (Merrick Garland) after Justice Antonin Scalia died. Mitch's reasoning, per his own words, was that the American people "deserved a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice" and that it wasn't fair to allow such a nomination during an election year.
In a reversal of his 2016 decision, Mitch McConnell betrayed the American people by stating that "oh, we'll fill it in," when he was asked if he would push through a nomination during 2020, another election year. He also clearly stated that he does not view SCOTUS justices as interpreters and upholders of the law and the US Constitution, but rather as a strong arm of whichever political party is in power. In Mitch's own words: "What can't be undone is a lifetime appointment to a young man or woman who believes in the quaint notion that the job of a judge is to follow the law," McConnell said. "That's the most important thing we've done for the country, which cannot be undone."
Please sign this petition, and please please contact the US Senators for your state, regardless of your own political leanings, and tell them that we should hold our politicians to their word. If it was "unfair to nominate a justice in an election year" during the 2016 election year, then it should be unfair during the 2020 election. Let us tell our Senators that they work for us, and if they're going to stop the nomination of a SCOTUS justice during a Presidential election year one time, they should do this during ever subsequent Presidential election year.
If Donald J. Trump wins the 2020 election, then his nomination should go through. If he doesn't, then the same that happened in 2016/17 (Neil Gorsuch got confirmed instead of Merrick Garland) should happen here, and the next President's nomination should be honored.
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The Issue
On September 18, 2020, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. Senator Mitch McConnell (R- KY) has already stated he will push a vote forward for any replacement that President Donald J. Trump nominates. However, in 2016, Senator McConnell blocked then President Barrack Obama's replacement (Merrick Garland) after Justice Antonin Scalia died. Mitch's reasoning, per his own words, was that the American people "deserved a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice" and that it wasn't fair to allow such a nomination during an election year.
In a reversal of his 2016 decision, Mitch McConnell betrayed the American people by stating that "oh, we'll fill it in," when he was asked if he would push through a nomination during 2020, another election year. He also clearly stated that he does not view SCOTUS justices as interpreters and upholders of the law and the US Constitution, but rather as a strong arm of whichever political party is in power. In Mitch's own words: "What can't be undone is a lifetime appointment to a young man or woman who believes in the quaint notion that the job of a judge is to follow the law," McConnell said. "That's the most important thing we've done for the country, which cannot be undone."
Please sign this petition, and please please contact the US Senators for your state, regardless of your own political leanings, and tell them that we should hold our politicians to their word. If it was "unfair to nominate a justice in an election year" during the 2016 election year, then it should be unfair during the 2020 election. Let us tell our Senators that they work for us, and if they're going to stop the nomination of a SCOTUS justice during a Presidential election year one time, they should do this during ever subsequent Presidential election year.
If Donald J. Trump wins the 2020 election, then his nomination should go through. If he doesn't, then the same that happened in 2016/17 (Neil Gorsuch got confirmed instead of Merrick Garland) should happen here, and the next President's nomination should be honored.
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Petition created on September 18, 2020