Thread of Quotes from Republican lawmakers regarding #SCOTUS nominations in a Presidential election year. Hold them to their words because if their word means nothing..they don’t belong in a position of public trust 1/15 #IntegrityMatters
“2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.” 2/15 #IntegrityMatters
2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.): “If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”3/15 #IntegrityMatters
2016, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): "I want you to use my words against me. If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, 4/15 #IntegrityMatters
2016 Graham (cont) you can say Lindsey Graham said 'let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.' You could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right." 5/15 #IntegrityMatters
2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.): “I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”6/15 #IntegrityMatters
2016,Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Sen. Judiciary Comm.I will do everything in my power to encourage the president & Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the people.”
2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.” 8/15
2016,Sen.Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate &to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the Amer ppl are castingballots
2016,Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the Amer people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country.For this reason,I believe the vacancy left open by Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.” 10/15
2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”11/15 #IntegrityMatters#RBGRevolution
2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.): “I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”12/15 #IntegrityMatters#RBGRevolution
2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio): “I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. 13/15 #RBGRevolution#IntegrityMatters
Portman (cont) It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”14/15
2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”15/15 #IntegrityMatters#RBGRevolution
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There are many of @HC_Richardson “Letters from An American” that should be highlighted. This one is of vital importance because it summarizes where we find ourselves today as we #resist those who mean to strip our rights, protections & freedom. open.substack.com/pub/heathercox…
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