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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe he should have nominated someone Bork-like. Just to test the waters and if the Senate agreed to hearings, withdrawn the nomination. Ha![/quote]

I was joking to my husband that maybe he'd nominate Ted Cruz. How would that be for a high-stakes poker game. The Senate hates Cruz and would love to get rid of him. At the same time he's impeccably conservative and would likely be an activist conservative at that -- perfect to replace Scalia. That would have given the Senate judiciary committee serious heartburn.

Of course Obama couldn't do that because they might just have called his bluff and agreed to consider him, and he couldn't take that risk.[/quote]

I guess the question is whether the nomination could be withdrawn. [/quote]

yes.  Remember Harriet Miers?[/quote]

Of course the nomination can be withdrawn!  This happens all the time.

Here's how it goes down.  Obama nominates an unassailable moderate SCOTUS.  McConnell sits on it for no reason other than the principle that the next President should get the pick.  If it's mid-October and things look decent for Hillary, Obama withdraws the candidate.  He says I did my best, McConnell has won.  The next president will get the pick.   Clinton will broadcast to the millennials that the future of a woman's right to choose is at stake.  She gets record turnout and wins, maybe carrying the Senate as well.  [/quote]

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