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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (388576)6/4/2008 7:11:08 PM
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>> It was his right.

It was his right. But was it responsible? Was it consistent with the intent of the framers? Of course not.

They obviously never envisioned the "borking" of a candidate. If you want to talk about "advice and consent", perhaps you would want to consider what the framers meant by it. It certainly didn't mean that exceptionally qualified candidates would be denied a seat on the Court because of their ideology.
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