Mark Levin: Democrats Wanting to Pack the Supreme Court Are Following a 'Stalinist Model'
BY TYLER O'NEIL SEP 20, 2020 2:46 PM EST
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Fox News host Mark Levin rightly condemned this blackmail, warning the Democrats are following a “Stalinist model.”
“Now, what the Democrats want to do is sabotage this entire process,” Levin said Sunday on Fox & Friends. He cited Dan McLaughlin’s National Review article arguing that history is on Trump’s side in this issue.
“Twenty-nine times in American history there has been an open Supreme Court vacancy in a presidential election year, or in a lame-duck session before the next presidential inauguration,” McLaughlin wrote. “The president made a nomination in all twenty-nine cases. George Washington did it three times. John Adams did it. Thomas Jefferson did it. Abraham Lincoln did it. Ulysses S. Grant did it. Franklin D. Roosevelt did it. Dwight Eisenhower did it. Barack Obama, of course, did it. Twenty-two of the 44 men to hold the office faced this situation, and all twenty-two made the decision to send up a nomination, whether or not they had the votes in the Senate.”
Levin also referenced a recent poll (taken just prior to Ginsburg’s death) finding that 67 percent of Americans say a Supreme Court confirmation should proceed in 2020 should a Supreme Court vacancy emerge.
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“According to the Democrats, the whole country should stop, the Supreme Court should stop, the president shouldn’t uphold the Constitution, the majority in the Senate shouldn’t uphold the Constitution, because they hope Joe Biden will be elected president, that they’ll take the Senate,” Levin noted.
“This is a party that is following a Saul Alinsky, Stalinist model. I can’t put it any other way, and they are taking it into the election,” the Fox News host warned. “Joe Biden was the leader of the pack, destroying the nomination process, destroying the Supreme Court. He was the leader of the pack, which is why he was hiding yesterday because he didn’t want to talk about the vacancy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
Levin also noted that Trump plans to nominate an originalist to the Supreme Court, somebody “who he believes will be faithful to the Constitution. Since when is that controversial? The president wants to nominate people who are faithful to the Constitution and will follow the Constitution and will read the wording trying to discern what the framers of the Constitution and the ratifiers meant and try and apply it.”
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