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A Thread - The Last 3 End-of-Term POTUS Nominations for SCOTUS
•October 31, 2005 - 1yr into his 2nd term POTUS GW Bush nominates Judge Samuel Alito for SOCTUS to succeed the retiring SCOTUS Sandra Day O’Connor. Dems cry foul, Senator Obama publicly leads filibuster.
•October 31, 2005 - 1yr into his 2nd term POTUS GW Bush nominates Judge Samuel Alito for SOCTUS to succeed the retiring SCOTUS Sandra Day O’Connor. Dems cry foul, Senator Obama publicly leads filibuster.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/flashback-obama-tried-filibuster-bushs-supreme-aaron-bandler">https://www.dailywire.com/news/flas...
•March 16, 2016 - 236 days before the end of his 2nd term POTUS Obama nominates Judge Merrick Garland for SCOTUS after SCOTUS Antonin Scalia died 1 month earlier. GOP cry foul, Sen McConnell denies Senate hearings. Unprecedented since USA’s post-Civil War Reconstruction era.
Article from 2018. https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624467256/what-happened-with-merrick-garland-in-2016-and-why-it-matters-now">https://www.npr.org/2018/06/2...
•September 26, 2020 - 39 days before the end of his 1st term POTUS Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for SCOTUS after SCOTUS Ruth Bader Ginsburg died 9 days earlier. Dems cry foul, but POTUS & Senate majority GOP ask for dignity and a fair hearing.
End of thread - Last 3 End-of-Term POTUS Nominations for SCOTUS
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