Re: March 14 letter to the editor.
A recent letter to the editor advocated that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch should turn down his nomination because Republicans refused to hold a hearing for Obama nominee Merrick Garland. True enough: Obama nominated Garland in March 2016, about 10 months before Obama left office. Democrats should remember, however, that in January 2006, about three years before George W. Bush left office, then-Sen. Barack Obama was part of the Democrats’ unsuccessful filibuster of Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination. In addition, in June 1992, about seven months before George H.W. Bush left office, then-Sen. Joe Biden said that Bush should delay filling a Supreme Court vacancy, should one arise, until the presidential election was over, and that it was “essential” that the Senate refuse to confirm a nominee to the court until then. Perhaps some poetic, political justice for Obama, Biden and Democrats.
Dennis Fitzpatrick, Denver
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