No one can predict with certainty when or if a president will have to nominate a candidate to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. It can happen at any time, or never, during a president’s term in office.
For Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, to state (supported by many of his Senate colleagues) that President Obama;s nominee should not be considered, much less confirmed, until the “people have spoken” is disingenuous at best and a disgrace at worst.
Is it an overstatement of the obvious to say that the people spoke in 2012 when they re-elected the president, knowing that he might have to nominate someone to the court?
Rather, it is just another appalling example of the Republicans in Congress failing to represent the citizens of the United States and failing abysmally to do their jobs.
Warner W. Price
Harpswell
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