Monthly Archives: February 2016

Today, Justice Stephen Breyer cut through Democrats’ talking points about the Supreme Court’s ability to function. When Justice Breyer was asked if Scalia’s absence will negatively affect the Supreme Court’s ability to decide cases, Breyer “downplayed that possibility”: “We’ll miss him, but we’ll do our work,” Breyer said during an appearance at the Newseum in […]

In 1992, while still Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, then-Senator Joe Biden laid out a principled case for how the Senate should handle a Supreme Court vacancy in a Presidential election year. The Washington Post said that Biden offered “rebuttals to virtually every point Democrats have brought forth” on the current Supreme Court fight. […]

Since Justice Scalia’s death, Democrats have not been shy about politicizing their push for another Obama liberal on the Supreme Court. Yet what the Obama Administration and Senate Democrats couldn’t have counted on is that Vice President Joe Biden would have made the exact same arguments Senate Republicans are now making in Biden’s capacity as […]