<p class="MsoNormal">As I <a href="https://punchingbagpost.com/democrats-turn-hypocritical-obama-admits-filibuster-of-supreme-court-nominee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>wrote on Monday,</strong></a> the Dems have turned hypocritical when it comes to replacing Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia. In 2007, Chuck Schumer argued that President George W. Bush should be ;barred from making Supreme Court nominations during the last year or so of his presidency. In 1992, Joe Biden posed the same argument. ;Now, when Republicans seek to prevent or delay outgoing President Obama from appointing a liberal judge, the Dems have no ground to stand on. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In 1992, ;Joe Biden argued that presidents should not be allowed to make nominations &ldquo;in the full throes of an election year.&#8221; I would definitely say that we are currently in the &ldquo;full throes&rdquo; of the 2016 elections. C-SPAN dug up the video of his speech and posted it to Twitter yesterday. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&ldquo;It is my view that if a Supreme Court Justice resigns tomorrow or within the next several weeks, or resigns at the end of the summer, President Bush should consider following the practice of a majority of his predecessors and not &ndash; and not &ndash; name a nominee until after the November election is completed,&rdquo; argued Biden while he served as Delaware Senator under President George H.W. Bush. A few influential Republicans agreed with him, taking the same stance they are taking today. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Now, as President Obama vows ;to fulfill his &ldquo;constitutional responsibilities&rdquo; to make a nomination to fill the seat left vacant by the unexpected death of Justice Scalia, Joe Biden finds himself as second-in-command of the in-power party. ;In 1992, Biden argued that Bush&rsquo;s successor should make the next nomination. And that is exactly what Republicans are arguing now. ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Waiting until the elections are over &ldquo;is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process,&rdquo; said Biden. He also argued that it would be possible for the Court to operate with only eight members. ;Following Biden&rsquo;s emphatic speech, the <em>New York Times</em> reported that Biden&rsquo;s argument was based in part on his fear of the &ldquo;radical right.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">&#8220;He added that President Bush and his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, had sought to move the Court sharply to the right, naming justices who would adopt a conservative agenda. He said both Presidents had &#8216;ceded power in the nominating process to the radical right,'&#8221; reads the article. ;&ldquo;It is this power grab that has unleashed the powerful and divisive forces that have ravaged the confirmation process,&rdquo; said Biden. &ldquo;Either we must have a compromise in the selection of future justices or I must oppose those who are the product of this ideological nominating process.&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><em>What about the folks who are afraid of the Court swerving too far to the left? ;</em></p>
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