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Mark Levin: Democrats Wanting to Pack the Supreme Court Are Following a ‘Stalinist Model’
by Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media:
After the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, President Donald Trump announced he would nominate Ginsburg’s successor and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said the Senate would vote on Trump’s pick. Yet Democrats have warned that if the Republicans follow the Constitution in replacing Ginsburg, they will respond by packing the Court should Democrats take the Senate and Joe Biden win in November. Fox News host Mark Levin rightly condemned this blackmail, warning the Democrats are following a “Stalinist model.”
“Now, what the Democrats want to do is sabotage this entire process,” Levin said Sunday on Fox & Friends. He cited Dan McLaughlin’s National Review article arguing that history is on Trump’s side in this issue.
“Twenty-nine times in American history there has been an open Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year, or in a lame-duck session before the next presidential inauguration,” McLaughlin wrote. “The president made a nomination in all twenty-nine cases. George Washington did it three times. John Adams did it. Thomas Jefferson did it. Abraham Lincoln did it. Ulysses S. Grant did it. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. Barack Obama, of course, did it. Twenty-two of the 44 men to hold the office faced this situation, and all twenty-two made the decision to send up a nomination, whether or not they had the votes in the Senate.”
Levin also referenced a recent poll (taken just prior to Ginsburg’s death) finding that 67 percent of Americans say a Supreme Court confirmation should proceed in 2020 should a Supreme Court vacancy emerge.
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“According to the Democrats, the whole country should stop, the Supreme Court should stop, the president shouldn’t uphold the Constitution, the majority in the Senate shouldn’t uphold the Constitution, because they hope Joe Biden will be elected president, that they’ll take the Senate,” Levin noted.
