(November 27, 2022 at 4:02 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Where's the whole new level? Making up justifications for an obvious power grab out of whole cloth, acting like it's an inviolable principle that might as well be in the constitution, and then tossing it aside at the first possible opportunity when the president's Republican.
Also, are we forgetting that Harry Reid wasn't actually the Senate Majority Leader at the time of the Merrick Garland nomination? The Republicans controlled the Senate in 2016, so it's Mitch McConnell who actually blocked the vote.
Reid was Senate Majority leader from January 3, 2007 to January 3, 2015. The mere fact Reid wasn't majority leader at the time does not negate his statement, while he was Majority lead, that the Senate has no constitutional duty to take a vote. The easiest thing to do is say Reid was wrong.
If you want to talk about power grabs, we can talk about the Dems desire to expand SCOTUS to retake the majority but that would mean de-canonizing RBG as she was against it.
