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Orrex

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2. They can give their opinions, but they have no official leverage in this matter

Reply to PJMcK (Original post)

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 02:10 PM

Feb 2016

The authority is the President's, full stop. The GOP Senate is acting like a bunch of spoiled assholes, full stop.

The SCOTUS Justices don't have any basis to intervene, and they stand to gain nothing by expressing their opinions.

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