The Vice President’s Remarks on the Nominating Process
Joe Biden Clarifies His Position on Confirming Justices
The great Justice Robert Jackson once wrote: “While the Constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty, it also contemplates that practice will integrate and disperse powers into a workable government.” Here’s the important sentence. It says, “It enjoins upon its branches separateness but interdependence, autonomy but reciprocity.” Now, back in 1992, I took to the Senate floor to speak about the Supreme Court nominating process. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans today have been quoting selectively from the remarks that I made in an attempt to justify refusing to give Chief Judge Garland a fair hearing and…
