A.G. Gancarski
U.S. Senator Rick Scott wrote Friday that Democrats were “hypocritical” for opposing the President’s right to pick a Supreme Court Justice to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“Elections have consequences. Americans elected Donald Trump and a Republican Senate knowing that Supreme Court seats could be at stake. We’re carrying out the will of the voters while Senate Democrats are just being hypocrites,” Scott wrote in a rhetorical provocation in a USA Today oped, saying that in two successive elections, American voters have signaled that they want the Republican President and the Mitch McConnell led Senate to produce high court judges.
Scott contended “the voters doubled down on Republican control, electing Donald Trump as President of the United States and keeping Republicans in the Senate majority — a majority that was expanded in 2018 when the voters chose to keep Republicans in the Senate majority and replaced three Democrats with Republicans — including myself.”
Though some may cavil that Trump didn’t win the popular vote in 2016, and that a Blue Wave reshaped Congress in 2018, Scott’s arguments don’t address those phenomena.
“Unlike 2016, the White House and the Senate are both controlled by Republicans. I believe we have a duty and responsibility to hold hearings and a confirmation vote on President Trump’s nominee,” Scott said, adding that “Democrats and their allies in the media are already howling with claims of hypocrisy.”
“What we’re doing is exactly what the voters and the constitution prescribed,” Scott added. “If Senate Democrats don’t like that, win more elections.”
Scott has been a consistent advocate for the President’s right to fill the spot. He has advocated for Hialeah’s Barbara Lagoa, a 52-year-old judge who moved to the federal 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from the Florida Supreme Court in 2019.
Lagoa has been a rising star in judicial circles, and numerous Florida Republicans have been behind the scenes making the push for Lagoa both on qualifications and political grounds.
The President will announce his pick on Saturday. “Four or five” women are in play, including Lagoa, Allison Jones Rushing (just 38 years old, as Trump keeps saying) and Amy Barrett.
Smart-set speculation has centered on Barrett as the front-runner, with Mitch McConnell and others advocating her.
7 comments
Frankie M.
September 25, 2020 at 10:40 am
Interesting…he wasn’t saying “elections have consequences” when Obama nominated Merrick Garland in 2016. Back then it was wait til after the election which was 9 months away at the time. Another case of do as I say not as I do? We already know the man has no shame with the RBG’s body not even cold yet. Now we know that he’s a hypocrite as well. What a piece of shit.
Sonja Fitch
September 25, 2020 at 11:12 am
Wtf. You are the biggest consequence of any election! What a scum bucket you are nazi rick! We will not forget rick! Vote blue vote Democrat up and down ballot !
DisplacedCTYankee
September 25, 2020 at 11:37 am
Why is Scott sucking up to President Shithead when he (Scott) isn’t up for re-election until 2024? Because he’s a jerk, that’s why.
Frankie M.
September 25, 2020 at 11:46 am
in 2016 it was “let the people decide”…today it’s “elections have consequences”
I wonder what’s changed between then & now?
Ocean Joe
September 25, 2020 at 5:38 pm
As a result of Sen. Scott’s considerable influence over Trump, Trump is picking the lady from Indiana. I happen to agree that elections have consequences. That’s why Trump is ranting about delaying the election, throwing out ballots, voter fraud where none exists, not leaving office, like a cornered rat wearing a dead possum on his head: he knows what the consequences of a fair election will bring in November.
Palmer Tom
September 26, 2020 at 12:36 pm
Our bad.
Sonja Fitch
September 26, 2020 at 1:57 pm
Omg the goptrump cult leader trump is nominating a Supreme Court justice that belongs to a Catholic cult! Mainstream Catholics do not even recognize this cult! Vote Blue! Vote Democrat up and down ballot!
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