[Magdalen] R.I.P. Justice Scalia

[Mahoney, W. Michael]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> They've been holding up all kinds of presidential appointments, sometimes
> for years. Judges, even the Surgeon General and the Attorney General. And
> they don't even pretend that it's a question of competence or suitability
> for the job.


True, sort of.  But note that two of the current bench are Obama appointees.

One can make a fair argument that a lame-duck president as near to the end
of his term as Obama is, ought not make a life time appointment.

Except, perhaps, in the highly unlikely case that he could find a consensus
candidate.



Mike M.