Fox News Reports that President Obama has until
February 22 or 23 to make a recess appointment to the Supreme Court. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/13/obama-has-rare-parliamentary-window-to-make-recess-appointment-to-succeed-scalia.html?intcmp=hpbt1
In a normal world, such a tactic by President
Obama would be outrageous. But since the Senate Republicans have made it
unambiguously clear that they would not even hold hearings, much less a vote,
on ANYONE he would nominate, maybe he should use this obstructionism as a
reason to at least fill the position for a while so the Court can get its work done. Since it would clearly be an interim appointment, maybe he should really make heads explode by appointing Laurence Tribe.
As for the "will of the people," the 66 million votes Obama received
in 2012 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012) are much more of a mandate
than the 40 million votes the Republican Congressional candidates received in
2014 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2014)
In any event, Democratic politicians should start actually using these
electoral FACTS when the Republicans talk about Obama thwarting the “will of
the people.”
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