Didn't Biden also push for the exact same thing in this situation?
I'm looking for but I can't find it. Can a peed help me out I've made a compilation of links where all of the prominent Democrats pushed to fill a seat in an election year
In 1992 Biden argued that GHW Bush should NOT nominate to fill a SCOTUS vacancy during election season. This was back when most nominees were easily confirmed (except Bork and Thomas, thanks to Biden). And the Dems held the Senate at that time and Biden was head of Senate Judiciary.
"I made it absolutely clear that I would go forward with a confirmation process as [Senate Judiciary] chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires," Biden told attendees of a Georgetown Law School event in 2016.
"The Senate will need to fulfill its constitutional responsibility by considering, debating and voting on that nominee," the then-vice president wrote in the March 2016 Times op-ed
Didn't Biden also push for the exact same thing in this situation?
I'm looking for but I can't find it. Can a peed help me out I've made a compilation of links where all of the prominent Democrats pushed to fill a seat in an election year
In 1992 Biden argued that GHW Bush should NOT nominate to fill a SCOTUS vacancy during election season. This was back when most nominees were easily confirmed (except Bork and Thomas, thanks to Biden). And the Dems held the Senate at that time and Biden was head of Senate Judiciary.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004226428/biden-in-1992-on-supreme-court-vacancy.html
In 2016 as VP, Biden said (paraphrasing) "oh I never had a rule, there's no such rule, the president should totally get a vote on his nomination."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/03/biden-disclaims-biden-rule-slams-gop.html
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https://www.newsweek.com/biden-2016-president-has-constitutional-duty-nominate-supreme-court-justice-even-months-1533106
"The Senate will need to fulfill its constitutional responsibility by considering, debating and voting on that nominee," the then-vice president wrote in the March 2016 Times op-ed
The full op-ed:
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/04/opinion/joe-biden-the-senates-duty-to-advise-and-consent.html
Rock on!!! Thanks a bunch. It's added and complete now