Abstract
[Excerpt] "Because I teach constitutional law, a friend recently asked me whether Judge Merrick Garland or President Obama might successfully sue to compel the Senate to take action on the nomination of Judge Garland to fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court.
Almost certainly not, I told him. Under settled precedent, a judge would dismiss such a case as raising a non-legal ''political" question. It would be very difficult to develop acceptable decisional standards for such a claim. Moreover, courts are reluctant to entertain lawsuits challenging mechanisms that the Senate uses to oversee the judiciary."
Publication Date
9-14-2016
Journal Title
Concord Monitor
Document Type
Editorial
Recommended Citation
John M. Greabe, My Turn: 'We the People' and the Garland Nomination, Concord Monitor, Sep. 14, 2016, at B1, B2.
Rights
This op-ed article originally appeared in the Concord Monitor.
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