About that "but....the Supreme Court!" argument
I have seen this argument many times, including earlier today, as to why Bernie supporters must hold their nose and vote for Hillary even if we find her abhorrent on just about everything. It is the argument the Democratic Party has been counting on to hold progressives in line as the party moves further and further to the right.
So about the Supreme Court. I didn't notice until I saw it on Samantha Bee's "Full Frontal" show that I had recorded earlier this week that the justice recommended to fill Scalia's vacancy by Orrin Hatch, conservative Republican Senator from Utah, was.....Merrick Garland!
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/16/3760727/who-is-merrick-garland/
<Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), the longest serving Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, offered his own thoughts on who President Obama should nominate to fill the seat left open by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia last week. “Obama could easily name Merrick Garland, who is a fine man,” Hatch told the conservative news site Newsmax, before adding that “he probably won’t do that because this appointment is about the election. So I’m pretty sure he’ll name someone the liberal Democratic base wants.”>
The article goes on to say that Garland, at age 63, is the oldest nominee to the Supreme Court since 1971. And the article mentions "his reputation for moderation" and that "he has a relatively conservative record on criminal justice".
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