How is that, as claimed, Obama is a Constitutional "Scholar" who Seems Totally Ignorant of the Constitution?

Obama is now blaming resistance to an election year appointment on, you guessed it, RACE! m/r

Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, has pointed out that “it’s been standard practice over the
last 80 years to not confirm Supreme Court nominees during a
presidential election year.” 

Supreme Court Nominations: President Needs Senate’s ‘Advice and Consent,’ Not Its Vote

By Hans A. von Spakovsky & Elizabeth Slattery — February 18, 2016

Someone should remind President Obama and Juan Williams what the Constitution actually says about confirming nominees. They seem unaware of how the process works. They also appear ignorant of the facts regarding the many judicial nominees the president has had confirmed over the past seven years.

First of all, the claim by Juan Williams that race “has something to do” with Republicans’ supposedly not moving on President Obama’s appointments is completely false — and the numbers prove it. The U.S. Senate has confirmed 321 individuals nominated to the federal bench during Obama’s presidency: 264 district court judges, 55 appeals-court judges, and two Supreme Court justices. That represents more than one third of the entire federal judiciary.

At the same point in the term of President George W. Bush, only 296 federal judges had been confirmed. That included two Supreme Court justices, the same number as Obama has placed on the Court. When Obama took office, ten of the 13 federal circuit courts of appeals had a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents; today, nine are majority Democratic.

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