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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is really starting to tick me off.<\/p>\n

He keeps harping on this idiotic notion that “the American people” deserve to have a voice in determining who the president should nominate to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Their voice has been heard, Sen. McConnell. It was heard four years ago when the country re-elected President Obama.<\/p>\n

Thus, he greeted today’s nomination of an eminently qualified jurist — Merrick Garland — with his vow to block it out of hand. Judge Garland will get no hearing; Republican senators won’t meet with him; there will be no vote.<\/p>\n

The Senate won’t do its job. It won’t follow through on President Obama’s nomination. Why? Because, according to McConnell, Barack Obama’s time as president is about up and the next<\/em> president should make the appointment.<\/p>\n

So, with that, the majority leader of the Senate has decided that Barack Obama’s second term will be cut short by nearly a year. No need to consider an appointment that the incumbent president sends to the Senate, because the legislative body’s upper chamber won’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n

This is an outrage of the first order.<\/p>\n

Merrick Garland is a first-class jurist. Senators thought so when they confirmed his nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court in 1997. Republicans joined Democrats in praising Garland’s credentials.<\/p>\n

Now, though, it’s different. McConnell said today it’s not “personal.” Of course it is! He and Senate Republicans don’t want Garland to\u00a0fill a court\u00a0vacancy created by the untimely death of the court’s leading conservative ideologue, Justice Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n

Garland is not a flaming liberal. His judicial record is the model of judicial moderation. Indeed, leftists today expressed disappointment with the president over his selection of someone who is not<\/em> a favorite of the Democratic Party’s liberal base.<\/p>\n

American citizens have spoken already, Mr. Leader, about who should sit on the Supreme Court. They spoke clearly in the November 2012 general election.<\/p>\n

Five million more Americans voted for Barack Obama\u00a0than\u00a0voted for Mitt Romney. Case closed.<\/p>\n

For the Republican leader of the Senate to suggest that the president’s pick should be stalled because GOP senators don’t want him to do his job is an outrage.<\/p>\n

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