{"id":1784,"date":"2010-04-13T08:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T08:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2010-04-13T08:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T08:26:12","slug":"an_interesting_perspective_on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Perspective On The Nomination Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/apr\/13\/pruden-an-opportunity-for-41-votes-and-a-spine\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;has an opinion piece by Wesley Pruden on the coming Supreme Court nomination by President Obama.&nbsp; President Obama has stated &#8220;that in a democracy powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.&#8221;&nbsp; (What does he think the SEIU does???)&nbsp; Mr. Pruden points out that powerful interests should not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens, but that didn&#8217;t used to be the&nbsp;concern of judges.&nbsp; The job of a Supreme Court justice is to uphold the Constitution.&nbsp; That is supposed to be the basis of his decisions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Pruden points out that because the Democrats have 59 votes, they will probably be able to confirm pretty much anyone.&nbsp; However, the Republicans have 41 votes.&nbsp; With their 41 votes and a spine, the Republicans could turn this nomination process into a teachable moment.&nbsp; Now is the time to ask the questions that will let the American people see what is happening to our Republic.&nbsp; If the Republicans ask valid questions that educate the American people, they could accomplish good things for themselves and for our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Washington Times&nbsp;has an opinion piece by Wesley Pruden on the coming Supreme Court nomination by President Obama.&nbsp; President Obama has stated &#8220;that in a democracy powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens.&#8221;&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}