오늘, Common Cause는 미국 상원에 헌법상의 권한을 행사하여 대통령 후보자의 미국 대법원 종신 임명에 대한 동의를 보류할 것을 촉구했습니다. 이는 후보자의 직무와 관련된 모든 기록을 포함하여 모든 관련 기록이 공개되고, 법무부가 대통령과 선거 과정에 대해 조사한 내용이 더 공개될 때까지입니다.
그만큼 편지 to senators emphasizes that the current situation is unprecedented in our nation’s history with an ongoing investigation into a hostile foreign power’s attacks aimed a swinging the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump and multiple members of the President’s inner circle under investigation or already convicted as a result of that investigation.
“These are uncharted waters and the risk of undermining public trust in the judiciary is very real right now at this juncture in our nation’s history. The record is incomplete and the Senate does not yet have enough information to provide informed consent” said Karen Hobert Flynn, President of Common Cause. “The Supreme Court could well end up deciding a variety of issues related to presidential power involving ongoing DOJ matters, including the Special Counsel’s investigation, that go to the heart of the electoral process. A cloud hangs over the very constitutional officer who is vested with the power to choose a person for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in our judicial system and who may later sit in judgment of them.”
The letter says that “the Advice and Consent clause was intended by the Framers of the Constitution to be a serious and deliberative process, not one that is rushed, or timed to achieve maximum political leverage on key members of the Senate who are up for election in November, or logrolled through a vote of a simple majority of the Senate, as if there is little at stake.”
The letter also emphasizes that the Senate will have an incomplete record of the nominee’s (Judge Brett Kavanaugh) professional papers as it weighs his nomination. Hearings are currently scheduled two months before the National Archives and Records Administration estimates it can produce the limited records Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has requested. That request does not even include documents related to Kavanaugh’s work as staff secretary to President George W. Bush, a position the nominee called the “most useful” and “most instructive” to his role as a judge.
“The American people deserve to see the full record of any nominee to the Supreme Court because that appointment is for life and the votes cast by that Justice will impact every American for a generation or more,” said Flynn. “That standard cannot yet be satisfied. We are urging the Senate to use its brakes on the confirmation process of lifetime Supreme Court appointments and do what is right for the nation – and that is to wait until it knows all the facts.”
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