“…that President Barack Obama should get to name the replacement for
the late Justice Antonin Scalia.’ I have a serious problem with that
language. It is patronizing, and sounds like caving in to a child. “He
gets to go to the circus.” Barack Obama does NOT “get to” appoint the
next Supreme Court justice. He is entitled to and responsible for that
appointment, per the Constitution of the United States of America. This
is NOT a concession he needs to win. The rightwing narrative
around this is absolutely false and anti-Constitutional. The radical
Republicans are a vile, petulant, hateful, passel of obstructionists
whose only unifying goal is their loathing of a black president who
became their target the day he was elected by the American people to
lead them.“
~~Sandra Day O'Connor, retired Justice of the US Supreme Court, a Ronald Reagan appointee
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