Justice Obama?
The Times editorialized that the next president may have an “even freer hand in shaping the Supreme Court. Some might call that poetic justice.”
Here’s what I would call poetic justice: Newly elected President Hilary Clinton nominates Barack Obama for the open seat on the Supreme Court. He’s more than qualified as a lifelong Constitutional scholar, much like the late Antonin Scalia, whom he would be replacing. And it wouldn’t be the first time that a former president serves as a justice (see William Howard Taft). And it would certainly meet all of the Republicans’ new rules, regulations and honored traditions, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) pledged obstructionism notwithstanding.
Then I can sit back and watch the steam shooting out of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) ears, preferably before a national audience on, say, Bill O’Reilly’s show. The spin stops there, after all.
That would be more than enough poetic justice — for me, anyway. Jamo Jackson Rainbow, Calif.
A letter to the editor paints McCain’s comments on continued obstructionism in the Senate on Democratic nominations to the Supreme Court as some sort of “wink, wink” that would aid Clinton.
Having just moved from Arizona to California, I have watched McCain for years. He is in the fight of his life with Democratic Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick for the Senate. McCain may lose, and his comments are meant to shore up his “conservative” credentials with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s base voters, who do not trust him.
It is pure pandering by a groveling politician who long ago lost respect for the Constitution, which states it is the Senate’s responsibility to take up such nominees for confirmation. David Osborne Laguna Niguel