Kyl Bucks Obama on Confirmation Timetable -- Falsely Cites Roberts And Alito As Precedent
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) is now saying the confirmation process for Sonia Sotomayor will likely have to wait much longer than President Obama wants -- going into September rather than happening before the August recess.
"My guess is that if you apply the same general standards as were applied to the Roberts and Alito nominations that probably it goes into the first part of September," Kyl told Fox News.
Simply put, this is baloney on multiple levels. For one thing, John Roberts was first nominated for the Supreme Court in late July 2005, then confirmed as Chief Justice in late September 2005 -- a period of just over two months. Alito took a bit longer, being nominated in late October 2005, and confirmed in late January 2006 -- a period of three months. Kyl is using these two examples to justify a period of nearly four months.
And by the way, the process in those two examples was especially convoluted due to unique circumstances. Roberts was originally nominated for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat, then was switched over to the Chief Justice post after William Rehnquist died. A search then began anew for the O'Connor seat, and Alito's confirmation probably got more scrutiny after the misfire of the Harriet Miers nomination.
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Kyl is full of shit.
What a surprise!
May 28, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, if you take Roberts's two months and add in Alito's three months, then knock off a month 'cuz, hey, Kyl is just being generous, then you get the four-month number he's peddling. It's the new math.
May 28, 2009 3:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
And you know what? He probably gets his way. Go the f*** ahead, Reid! Suprise me, motherf***er!
May 28, 2009 3:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Surprise surprise, Republicans can't count time. Add that to the list of things they absolutely fail at.
May 28, 2009 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
I dunno.
The crazies on the right are blasting Sotomayor as a racist, as belonging to the Latino equivalent of the KKK, and will no doubt start raising health issues about her. They look despicable. Elected Republicans? Probably aren't going to want to let this drag on for that long, because the public isn't going to distinguish between conservative activists and elected Republicans.
Which makes me think that this choice by Obama really was inspired: a person who the right would not be able to resist attacking with crazy charges, making the right look even crazier than it already is (no small feat, if you ask me). She's probably going to get confirmed, and the conservative right is going to look even more unhinged than it does now.
May 28, 2009 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Next thing you know, they'll be screaming that she pals around with someone who pals around with terrorists.
May 28, 2009 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Uh, no it won't douche bag. You ain't got the votes to delay that long.
May 28, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Democrats delayed Alito's confirmation for a week. Just one week. The reason it took so long to confirm Alito was because of the schedule created by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee. See http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/04/alito/index.html
May 28, 2009 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Souter could speed things along. He could show up for court wearing paisley robes and a coon skin cap. Routinely drop the f-bomb during court proceedings. Or really piss off the Republicans by openly displaying empathy for non-business entities.
May 28, 2009 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that would be a good reason to start allowing video cameras into the Court! as it is now, we wouldn't really get the full effect.
May 28, 2009 4:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I remember the Roberts confirmation process being remarkably speedy, with the Repugs practically drooling to get him onto the Court and the Dems lying down and playing dead, as usual. So that seems like a particularly faulty precedent to cite as a reason for delaying Sotomayor's confirmation.
May 28, 2009 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
They look despicable. Elected Republicans? Probably aren't going to want to let this drag on for that long, because the public isn't going to distinguish between conservative activists and elected Republicans.
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June 6, 2010 7:49 PM | Reply | Permalink