Barack Obama Won't Use Recess Appointment To Nominate Supreme Court Justice

NPR.org:

The White House says the president will not move to appoint a Supreme Court replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia while the Senate is in recess this week. 

In an interview with ABC News, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama would would wait to announce his nominee until Congress returns from its break later this month. In an email to NPR, Schultz said the White House had ruled out a recess appointment "this week." 

"At that point, we expect the Senate to consider that nominee, consistent with their responsibilities laid out in the United States Constitution," Schultz told ABC.

Of course, it's more complicated than that. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Saturday that the vacancy "should not be filled until we have a new president." That means an Obama nominee could languish until a new president takes over in January.

With that prospect, pundits began considering the possibility of Obama bypassing the Senate and appointing a justice temporarily when Congress was out of town.

I'm pretty certain that the most divisive President in history would love to appoint another far-Left justice to carry on his Godless agenda and do his bidding. But Barry's team knows damn well that that could turn around and bite him in the ass....so it's all about strategy now.

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