Response to Joe Biden: The Senate's Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee

Response to Joe Biden: The Senate's Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee 
3/7/16

In Biden's speech in the summer of 1992, he discouraged President Bush to nominate a Supreme Court judge and if the President did, he threatened him by telling the Senate not to cast a vote. Now in 2016 as the Senate refuses to consider Obama's Supreme Court nominations, Biden urges that the Senate use their full power and hold a hearing for Obama's nominations.

The question is, What side is Biden taking, does he agree with the Senate having a hearing or not ? In the article,"The Senate’s Duty on a Supreme Court Nominee", Vice President Joe Biden takes his stance on the Senate refusing to have a hearing, by saying , "The Senate will need to fulfill its constitutional responsibility by considering, debating and voting on that nominee."

Joe Biden has spent 36 years in the Senate, so he's been there and done that nine times. Biden vows for a more consultative process, where the Senate plays a more advisory role, talking to the President about who he should nominate. He also wants there to be a candidate chosen who everyone generally agrees with to settle the void between the partisan (Democrat and Republican divide) in the country.

Not only does Biden want the President and Congress to get along, but he wants Congress to get it together in general. He later goes on to say, "At a time when we need to reduce the gridlock in our politics, this would extend Congress’s dysfunction to the Supreme Court — preventing it from functioning as our founders intended for a year and possibly longer." He believes that if Congress doesn't get it together and hear Obama out, the Supreme Court nomination could take up to a year.

Even after this whole Supreme Court nomination is over, Congress should look at this as motivation to reassess theirselves. The whole Republican- Democrat thing is getting out of hand. Why deny a nominee a right to be on the Supreme Court if he/she is a good person? Congress needs to start looking beyond politics and think, "Will this person or thing improve or help the people of America? " If Congress starts to look at the bigger picture, things will start to get done.