De mortuis nil nisi bonum
Feb. 13th, 2016 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowAntonin Scalia is dead.
Ted Cruz has declared that Obama should not name his replacement, but should leave it to the next President. I'm not surprised by this declaration.
If the Senate stonewalls whoever Obama names until November - or next January - I will also not be surprised. I will, however, be infuriated. If they allow the nominee to come to a vote and reject him/her, I will not be infuriated: "advise and consent" means that rejection is an option. (Don't talk to me about Robert Bork. Bork got his up-or-down vote, and lost.)
I am holding on to hope, though, that the rest of the Senate won't listen to Cruz.
Ted Cruz has declared that Obama should not name his replacement, but should leave it to the next President. I'm not surprised by this declaration.
If the Senate stonewalls whoever Obama names until November - or next January - I will also not be surprised. I will, however, be infuriated. If they allow the nominee to come to a vote and reject him/her, I will not be infuriated: "advise and consent" means that rejection is an option. (Don't talk to me about Robert Bork. Bork got his up-or-down vote, and lost.)
I am holding on to hope, though, that the rest of the Senate won't listen to Cruz.
