SCOTUS Appointment

[Benton]

(02-18-2016, 05:18 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: I don't see any of them trying to legally bar him from nominating. 

Also, nice extreme hypothetical there. The reality is the public would most likely vote them out of office if they did that. 

You'd think. Then again, my state keeps sending Mitch McConnell back. The same Mitch McConnell that brought an out of work miner to the SOTU address — and won the last election mostly due to painting his opponent as anti-coal — just a day or two after he personally asked (and got removed) a bi-partisan plan to fix miner pensions. But if you ask most of the coal workers, McConnell is still their guy.

So, no, Fred's hypothetical isn't that extreme when you consider the average voter would re-elect a potato if they thought it felt the same way they do.