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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

U.S. Senate Republicans argued four years ago when President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to join the Supreme Court that the “people need to have a say” in who should join the court.<\/p>\n

That was then. These days, Senate Republicans are saying something so very different. The people’s voice? The upcoming presidential election just 40 days<\/em> from now? Pffftt!<\/em><\/p>\n

Amy Coney Barrett has been nominated by Donald Trump to join the Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg died fewer than 50 days prior to the next presidential election; Antonin Scalia died in February 2016 several months<\/em> before that year’s election.<\/p>\n

We were going to get a new president in 2016, given that Obama couldn’t run for a third term. We well might get a new president this year.<\/em> Do “the people” this time still deserve to have a say in who joins the high court? Of course we do!<\/p>\n

That won’t happen, apparently.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is set to convene a hearing on Oct. 12. Barrett will sit before the committee and dodge question after question from senators. The committee will vote and likely will recommend she gets confirmed; it will be a partisan vote, with Republicans holding a majority of the committee.<\/p>\n

Then the full Senate will vote. The entire body’s vote likely is going to be on a partisan basis as well. Barrett will be confirmed and will take her seat on the court.<\/p>\n

What about the people’s voice? What in the name of fairness happened to that fervent call four years ago to give voters a say in who joins the court for the rest of his or her life?<\/p>\n

It has been trampled by raw, rank and reprehensible political hypocrisy, led by the hypocrite in chief, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.<\/p>\n

We are living in a dangerous, perilous time.<\/p>\n\n

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