The Republican debate this evening started with the question of what President Obama should do in appointing a replacement for Justice Scalia, and how the Senate should respond.
Every candidate hastened to make the following points:
1. President Obama has no right whatever to appoint anyone since he has only 11 months left in his term, but that if he insists on fulfilling this duty he should appoint someone who would get unimimous support from the Senate and certainly not appoint anyone with his judicial views.
2. Each candidate said that if elected president he would appoint every judge possible during his term and would happily insist that each nominee be very strongly conservative so as to push the court as far to the right as possible.
The debate audience applauded both positions. No candidate observed the contradiction between the two position, except Trump, who shrugged.
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