Cenk Uygur rips Merrick Garland: If he were nominated by a Repub ‘I’d want to filibuster him’ [View all]

[LiberalArkie]

Young Turks host Cenk Uygur slammed the idea that Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is a boon for progressives or that his nomination was a clever move by President Barack Obama.

“I’m supposed to support this guy because somebody with a (D) next to their name said that that was the ‘party line,'” Uygur asked. “‘Hell no’ is not strong enough. If he was proposed by a Republican president I’d want to filibuster him.”


While activists are staging rallies to pressure Republicans to vote on Garland’s nomination, Uygur argued that Garland’s record concerning the Citizens United ruling and habeas corpus rights make him unfit to serve on the high court.

Uygur noted that, as Just Security reported, Garland was the only Democratic appointee who chose not to dissent when the DC Circuit Court of Appeals refused to rehear a case involving US detainees’ right to a hearing “before being transferred to countries in which they might credibly fear torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/cenk-uygur-rips-merrick-garland-if-he-were-nominated-by-a-repub-id-want-to-filibuster-him/