Senator Lindsey Graham, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has a famous defense when someone questions why he voted to confirm U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justices Sonia Sotormayor and Elena Kagan: “Elections have consequences.”
Conservatives, including us, have blasted the South Carolina senator for his votes to confirm President Obama’s two picks to the country’s highest court. We will save time by not pointing out all the many reasons why Republicans should have voted no but Sotormayor and Kagan’s recent bizarre behavior during oral arguments in the case concerning the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for private workplace is a solid place to start.
Yes, elections have consequences Sen. Graham, but when has that ever stopped the left and its cohorts in the media from going full nuclear on any nominee a Republican president has appointed to the Court? Bork, Thomas, Alito in years past come to mind while Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett in very recent times surely must remind anyone paying attention what a circus the left has made of confirmation hearings.
Which brings us to President Biden’s appointment of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the next justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Her recent confirmation hearings have proved beyond a doubt that she is fully unqualified to serve on the land’s highest court. She deserves, however, like any nominee, a respectful hearing with tough questions from the Judiciary Committee concerning her prior record as a judge (i.e. child porn sentencing) or how she would rule constitutionally. Her answers on the former and avoidance on the latter should without a doubt make her unqualified to serve.
We don’t want to hear excuses like “elections have consequences” or “we must be nice.” Republicans continue to play the wrong political game. No matter what we say or do, the media and the left will never like us. Most won’t, and don’t, even respect us.
It does not matter if the GOP cannot stop her from being confirmed with only 50 senate seats and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie should the final vote become deadlocked at 50-50, though that prospect’s constitutionality is definitely questionable.
What does matter is how we fight for what we believe in and fight for the preservation of the U.S. Constitution. We should never cater to the left or try to make nice with them. We lose every time we extend the olive branch. It’s never reciprocated.
Republican senators should not confirm Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court when they vote this week. Don’t listen to the establishment media like The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board and other “conservative” media outlets who pontificate that her confirmation doesn’t alter the balance of the court or that she should be confirmed because it is historic.
That’s not playing the game right. That’s capitulating.
We are watching the confirmation vote. Not one GOP senator should vote yes though Senator Susan Collins has publicly expressed she plans to do so. It’s not too late to change your mind madam senator.
Senators Sasse, Graham, Murkowski, Romney et al, don’t tempt your fate with the conservative base.
If you do, we will do whatever it takes to remove you from office.
