Jerry Brown Slams
GOP over Scalia Delay
by William Bigelow15 Feb 2016
On Sunday, California governor Jerry Brown slammed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 44%’s
statement that the Senate should wait until after the presidential
election to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Brown weighed in on Facebook: “Couldn’t Mitch McConnell
have the decency to at least wait until the funeral before playing cynical
politics with this vacancy. Such obstruction and sheer arrogance is
unconscionable and deserves the condemnation of all Americans.”
He doubled down on Twitter:
Couldn’t @SenateMajLdr have
the decency to wait until the funeral before playing cynical politics. Such
obstructionism must not stand.
— Jerry Brown (@JerryBrownGov) February
14, 2016
McConnell had responded
on Saturday to the news of Scalia’s death: “The American people should have a
voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this
vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” He was echoed
by Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-IA), who controls the
committee schedule for handling nominees. Grassley posited:
The fact of the matter is that it’s been standard
practice over the last nearly 80 years that Supreme Court nominees are not
nominated and confirmed during a presidential election year. Given the huge
divide in the country, and the fact that this president, above all others, has
made no bones about his goal to use the courts to circumvent Congress and push
through his own agenda, it only makes sense that we defer to the American people
who will elect a new president to select the next Supreme Court justice.
Political analyst John Dadian told ABC 10
San Diego, “Jerry Brown is totally off base on that comment because
both parties are making comments. I don’t think any comment so far has been
inappropriate from leaders of either party. My question to him would be, would
you feel the same about Hillary Clinton and
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) 2%? They made the exact
same comments, just from a different point of view.”
Brown’s own judicial appointments has been a reflection
of his own leftist
views, and have been exclusively from Yale Law
School in recent years.
Ironically, history reveals the hypocrisy of Brown and
other Democrats insisting on a speedy nomination and confirmation, who include
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Senate Minority leader Harry Reid,
Senator
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 4%, the ranking
Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, and DNC National Committee Chairwoman Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) 4%, according to the Washington
Times.
In August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a
resolution, S.RES.
334, “Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should
not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a
breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.”
David Bernstein explained in the Washington
Post: “Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS appointments
had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by the Senate,
and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to fill any
last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess appointment. Not
surprisingly, the Republicans objected, insisting that the Court should have a
full complement of Justices at all times. Of course, the partisan arguments
will be exactly the opposite this time.”
The Democrats’ move was likely prompted by President
Eisenhower’s recess-appointment of William Brennan to the Supreme Court in October 1956, just before the presidential
election.
Politico reported
in 2007 that Senator Chuck Schumer, who sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee
and is now the Democrats’ future leader in the Senate after 2017, told the American
Constitution Society convention
in Washington, “We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. The Supreme
Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens
replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.”
Politico added that Schumer said confirmation hearings
were meaningless; that a nominee’s record should be weighed more heavily than
rhetoric; and that “ideology matters” and people should “take the president at
his word.”
American Constitution Society
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
Note: George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Elaine
L. Chao is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a board member for the American Action Forum, and married to Senator Addison (Mitch) M. McConnell.
Jeb
Bush is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the candidate for the 2016 Jeb Bush presidential campaign, and was a board member for the
American Action Forum.
Frederic V. Malek
is the chairman for the American Action
Forum, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Kathleen L. Brown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Jerry Brown’s sister, and was the California state government treasurer.
Jerry
Brown is Kathleen L. Brown’s
brother, and the California state
government governor.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is Valerie B.
Jarrett’s great uncle, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), a
senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, a president emeritus for the Robert Trent
Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), a director at the American
Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Michael Solon
was a consultant at Akin, Gump, Strauss,
Hauer & Feld, LLP, and the policy director for strategic planning for Senator
Addison (Mitch) M. McConnell.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is an honorary member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club
(Gainesville, VA), and the chief
justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Antonin Scalia
was a justice for the U.S. Supreme Court,
a guest for the Koch Industries annual
conference, and a member of the Burning
Tree Club.
Koch Industries
is the sponsor for the Koch Industries
annual conference.
David
H. Koch is the EVP for Koch
Industries, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Jack
Valenti was a member of the Burning
Tree Club, and a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Elaine
L. Chao is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a board member for the American Action Forum, and married to Senator Addison (Mitch) M. McConnell.
Jeb
Bush is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, the candidate for the 2016 Jeb Bush presidential campaign, and was a board member for the
American Action Forum.
Frederic V. Malek
is the chairman for the American Action
Forum, and a trustee at the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
R. Eden Martin is
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Faith Elizabeth
Gay was an attorney at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is a board of adviser’s member for the American Constitution Society.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and is the COO & director for Facebook.
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, an honorary member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club
(Gainesville, VA), and the chief
justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
David M.
Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank), and was a benefactor for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the Aspen
Institute (think tank).
Elaine
L. Chao is a director at the Bloomberg
Family Foundation, a board member for the American Action Forum, and married to Senator Addison (Mitch) M. McConnell.
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