To: The United States Senate
Mitch McConnell: "Let the American People Decide."
Though the American People had elected and re-elected President Obama, Senate majority leader McConnell insisted that no nominee to the vacant seat on the Supreme Court should be considered until the American people chose a new president.
That did not happen in our last national election when the new president lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. No new Supreme Court justice should be considered until the American People have decided on a president whom they trust to nominate a justice who will serve all Americans, not a narrow ideology.
That did not happen in our last national election when the new president lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. No new Supreme Court justice should be considered until the American People have decided on a president whom they trust to nominate a justice who will serve all Americans, not a narrow ideology.
Why is this important?
There will be no more significant and lasting action by the new president than his appointment to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Despite his overwhelming approval by the American people, President Obama was deprived of his constitutional prerogative to have his nominee for the seat considered by the senate. Senator McConnell's strategy for obstructing President Obama was cynical and against the interests of all Americans but we can agree that a president who received a minority of votes does not have a mandate from Americans to appoint a justice to The Supreme Court.