Blog: Dems in Senate passed a resolution in1960 against election year Supreme Court appointments

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Read it and weep, Democrats. The shoe is on the other foot. David Bernstein at theWashington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog:

 Thanks to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, “Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.”  Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS appointments had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by the Senate, and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to fill any last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess appointment.

Read it and weep, Democrats. The shoe is on the other foot. David Bernstein at the Washington Post’sVolokh Conspiracy blog:

 Thanks to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, “Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.”  Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS appointments had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by the Senate, and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to fill any last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess appointment.

The GOP opposed this, of course. Hypocrisy goes two ways. But the majority won.

As it should this time.

Hat tip: Instapundit

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Trump calls Cruz a liar

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Donald Trump has tweeted five times in the last 24 hours that Ted Cruz is not truthful. | AP Photo

Donald Trump has a new line of attack against Ted Cruz — he’s a liar.

Over the past 24 hours, Trump has tweeted five times in some variation that the Texas senator is not truthful.

It all started Thursday morning with a tweet from the billionaire that Cruz was making negative robo-polls. Cruz flat-out denied the allegations Thursday to reporters before a rally in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

“We are getting reports from many voters that the Cruz people are back to doing very sleazy and dishonest 'pushpolls' on me. We are watching!” Trump tweeted.

"I have no idea. We had nothing to do with them. I don't know what they were. We had nothing to do with them. So I had read reports of what is being said but somebody else is doing them, not us," Cruz said.

But Trump was not swayed.

"@truthinvest: @CNN @tedcruz@realDonaldTrump Ted Cruz is the definition of sleaze. Just ask@RealBenCarson,” he retweeted.

Followed by: “Cruz caught cold in lie after denial of push polls like lies w/@RealBenCarson. How can he preach Christian values?” he tweeted with the link to a POLITICO story about Cruz’s denial.

Trump’s reference to Carson is about an incident in Iowa where members of the Cruz camp told caucus-goers that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson had dropped out of the race and that they should throw their support behind Cruz.

While Cruz has apologized to Carson, he has repeatedly said the source of the information was a CNN report. CNN has strongly objected to the idea it said Carson was bowing out of the race. Following a second-place finish in Iowa, Trump took on the issue, saying that it could have cost both Carson and himself higher placements.

On Friday morning Trump continued to bash Cruz, bringing up the fact that Cruz had attempted to associate him and Rubio with gay marriage.

“Lying Cruz put out a statement, 'Trump & Rubio are w/Obama on gay marriage.' Cruz is the worst liar, crazy or very dishonest. Perhaps all 3?” Trump tweeted.

“How can Ted Cruz be an Evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?” he continued, jabbing at Cruz on religion as the two battle for the evangelical vote in South Carolina.

At the Carolina Values Summit at Winthrop University Thursday Cruzattempted to tie Trump and Rubio to Obama on the issue.

Cruz said that while both oppose gay marriage they’ve called the Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage the "law of the land.”

"Those are the talking points of Barack Obama," Cruz said.

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NH Poll: Trump +16, Kasich in 2nd, Jeb Bush Surging

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by MIKE FLYNN7 Feb 20165,234

The latest Monmouth University poll of New Hampshire shows Donald Trump continuing to lead the GOP field by a double-digit margin.

The poll, however, shows a very tight race for second place, with Jeb Bush surging 9 points since Monmouth’s last survey in January.

Trump leads the field with 30 percent support, essentially unchanged since Monmouth’s last poll in early January. Ohio Gov. John Kasich is second with 14 percent support, also unchanged since early January. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has 13 percent support, up just one point in the last month. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has 12 percent, down just two points since the beginning of the year.

The momentum seems to be with Jeb Bush, who has surged 9 points in the last month. Bush has moved from 4 percent support in early January to 13 percent support today. He is tied with Marco Rubio for third.

Considering the poll’s 4.4 percent margin of error, New Hampshire currently has a four-way race for second. Kasich, Rubio, Bush and Cruz are all well positioned to finish runner up in Tuesday’s primary. Chris Christie is much further back with just 6 percent support, down slightly since January.

All the pundit talk about Marco Rubio having momentum going into Tuesday’s vote looks hollow against this poll. Rubio’s support level in the state is unchanged since November. The only significant change in New Hampshire since the Fall is growing support for both Bush and Ted Cruz and a collapse in support for Ben Carson.

Two notes of caution, however. The Monmouth poll was conducted before Saturday’s Republican debate, which may reshuffle the race for second and third in the state. Marco Rubio was widely acknowledged to have stumbled in the debate, while Govs. Bush, Kasich and Christie were perceived to have done well.

In addition, only 49 percent of likely Republican voters say they are certain in their vote. Almost one-third of voters, 31 percent say they have a “strong preference” in whom to support. Monmouth did a follow up survey after the Iowa caucus and found that just over half of those voters with a “strong preference” stuck with their candidate on election day.

“Volatility is the name of the game in 2016’s first primary contest, just as it was in the first caucus state last week. While Trump’s placement as the top finisher seems fairly secure at this point, the margin of victory and final order of the remaining candidates are still very much up for grabs,” Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth polling, said in a release.

Monmouth’s final poll in Iowa greatly overestimated Trump’s support and underestimated support for both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.

Almost half of likely Republican voters, 49 percent, say they have been personally contacted about supporting at least one of the Presidential hopefuls. This indicates a very active and robust ground game currently trying to turn the vote out for Tuesday’s election. This high level of retail politicking is a feature of New Hampshire’s primary.

It is also one of the reasons that the final outcome is so predictable. With so many voters making their ultimate decision in the final hours of the campaign, that “last touch” with voters can prove decisive.

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