Fun Facts Wednesday – Supreme Court Nominees During Presidential Election Years
With all of the noise put forth by the Democrat party and the mainstream media (MSM) concerning President Trump going forward nominating a replacement on the Supreme Court of the United States with the recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, I thought it would be interesting to see if Justices were ever nominated in the last year of a Presidents term throughout the United States history.
Sen. Ted Cruz claims that there has been 29 instances of this happening. I can only find 15 regardless, it is not uncommon.
Below are the justices I could determine were nominated and then confirmed to the United States Supreme Court in the last year of a Presidents term.
Year | Supreme Court | |||
Number | Recommended | Judge | President | Party |
1 | February 1801 | John Marshall | John Adams | Federalist |
2 | February 1845 | Samuel Nelson | John Tyler | Whig/Unaffiliated |
3 | May 1881 | Stanely Matthews | James Garfield | Republican |
4 | February 1893 | Howell Edmunds Jackson | Benjamin Harrison | Republican |
5 | March 1912 | Mahlon Pitney | William Howard Taft | Republican |
6 | January 1916 | Louis Brandeis | Woodrow Wilson | Democrat |
7 | July 1916 | John Clarke | Woodrow Wilson | Democrat |
8 | September 1922 | George Southerland | Warren G. Harding | Republican |
9 | December 1922 | Pierce Butler | Warren G. Harding | Republican |
10 | January 1923 | Edward Terry Sanford | Warren G. Harding | Republican |
11 | February 1932 | Benjamin N. Cardozo | Herbert Hoover | Republican |
12 | January 1940 | Frank Murphy | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democrat |
13 | September 1956 | Sherman Minton | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Republican |
14 | February 1988 | Anthony Kennedy | Ronald Reagan | Republican |
15 | February 2016 | Merrick Garland | Barack Obama | Democrat |
Any Justice nominee in bold, was never voted on by the Senate.
In closing, here is the verbiage from the United States Constitution concerning the nominating of Judges of the supreme Court,
Article II
Section 2
- Clause 2
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds [simple majority]of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
If any American Partisan readers find the complete list that Cruz was referring to, please let me know and I will update the above list.
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It’s going to be Mrs. Lagoa from my home town. Hialeah!
She went to the parochial school my wife went to. Her parents got here in the 60s like mine, and the offspring Of those refugees are raised with a fundamental understanding that communism is bad. More like the work of the devil bad. Mix that with Catholicism, and you create semi fanatics, and some full blown fanatics. The other candidate is exceptional, but she may be a harder sell than a “person of color”. Not that I give a crap, bit that is country we live in at the moment. She will replace CT. Just a hunch.
They can be green as long as they don’t infringe on our rights.
Best to you all.
Lagoa might be the smart choice. Less reasons for the left to attack her nomination and naming her could tip the scales in Florida for the election.