[Continuation] 2020 Democratic Candidates Tracker Part IV

This is a continuation from Part III The split point is, as always, arbitrary and participants are free to quote from the previous thread(s).

Posted By:Darat

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Originally Posted by d4m10n (Post 13010475) Where is that written? If the Senate neglects to even consider a nominee, it doesn't make much sense to say they are following constitutional procedure.

What Constitutional procedure? The C only says that the Senate gives advice and consent; the details of that are completely in the hands of the Senate. The Senate has adopted rules for these nominations.

Harry Reid exercised the "nuclear option," for nominations except Supreme Court justices; McConnell did it for Supreme Court justices. Let's not pretend that Harry Reid's actions were noble and altruistic and McConnell's were dastardly and selfish. The Senate makes the rules and the leader of the Senate can use the rules to accomplish their goals. Fair game.

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