President Barack Obama opined that Republicans are on the verge of ruining the Supreme Court nominating process for all time, writing in the Wall Street Journal that their treatment of Merrick Garland “will effectively nullify the ability of any president from the opposing party to make an appointment to the nation’s highest court.”
If Republicans in the Senate refuse even to consider a nominee in the hopes of running out the clock until they can elect a president from their own party, so that he can nominate his own justice to the Supreme Court, then they will effectively nullify the ability of any president from the opposing party to make an appointment to the nation’s highest court. They would reduce the very functioning of the judicial branch of the government to another political leverage point. We cannot allow the judicial confirmation process to descend into an endless cycle of political retaliation.
Obama’s concerns about the politicization of the Court come just a week after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg weighed in on presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump in multiple interviews, for which she eventually apologized.
