Dems have role in lack of bipartisanship, too
E. J. Dionne's column, "Partisan high court has no taste for checks, balances" (Opinion, June 29), reminds me of the old saying, "Our suspicions of others are aroused by our own actions." When the Democrats are in power, did they ever show any bipartisanship? When the Supreme Court vacancy occurred with 10 months remaining in Obama's term, Mitch McConnell simply followed the "Joe Biden Rule" from the 1990s that a president should not get to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in the last year of his term. Now I guess they want to extend that for his last two or three years! Also, when the Democrats declared the travel ban was anti-Muslim, they didn't notice Indonesia has the highest percentage of Muslims, and they are not included in the ban. In 5-4 decisions, are the five the "fruit of a poisonous tree of unbridled partisanship" when they are conservative-leaning?
JUDITH MCCARTHY, ATLANTA
GOP should delay vote on high court nominee
When the Supreme Court vacancy happened during the last year of Obama’s presidency, the Republican Party acted upon its vow “stop Obama at all costs.” Breaking with precedent, they once again put party ahead of all else. Now another opening is upon us. In another part of Washington, D.C., an investigation of the president, his campaign and his staff plods along. There have already been multiple indictments from Robert Mueller’s efforts, with probably more on the way. And, as of now, we don’t know how far up the food chain the dominoes will fall. Why then can’t we wait to see if our president is held accountable for either unethical actions or illegal ones before we give him the chance to choose a new justice? If “we don’t want to” was OK in 2016, then finding out if Trump only has a year left in office should work in 2018.
MICHAEL BUCHANAN, ALPHARETTA
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