Pruden: A Modest Suggestion for Choosing the Judge

Everybody is putting his 2 cents in about the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and how to fill it, and President Obama hasn’t even sent up the name of the man, woman or trans-sexual whom he thinks would adorn the highest bench in the land. Who knew we had so many Philadelphia lawyers amongst us?

Joseph R. Biden, the vice president, who often tells the world what the president thinks even before the president knows that’s what he thinks (that’s how he changed the president’s mind on same-sex marriage), explained how the vacancy will be filled.

“The Senate gets to have a say,” he said, in a fit of generosity, “so in order to get this done, the president is not going to be able to go out — nor would it be his instinct, anyway — to pick the most liberal jurist in the nation and put them [sic] on the court. There are plenty of judges who are on high courts already who have had unanimous support of the Republicans.”

Then he added the ritual demand that the Republicans had better get with the program, or else. “To leave the seat vacant at this critical moment in American history is a little bit like saying ‘God forbid something happen to the president and the vice president, we’re not going to fill the presidency for another year and a half.’ “

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