On Wednesday morning, President Obama announced that he was nominating Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Garland is currently the chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Of course, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell will not be meeting with Garland, since the Republicans refuse to consider a nominee until after the presidential election. Good thing we have Twitter for The People to voice what a bad idea they think this is.
On Twitter, the #DoYourJob hashtag has sprung up, essentially demanding that McConnell and the Senate Republicans give Garland a fair hearing and then vote on his nomination. People are tweeting at various GOP Senate accounts with this hashtag.
https://twitter.com/MyStrangeFam/status/710263473108865024
@Senate_GOPs We have a President IN office, who was elected, & whose job it is to fill open positions in #SCOTUS #GrowUp #DoYourJob
— JRM, It's me🇺🇸🇮🇪🏴🏴 (@yfabb) March 17, 2016
#DoYourJob Do your job or step aside and we'll get someone who will. https://t.co/5KjdjSsfIS
— Jim Winski (@ijimbot) March 17, 2016
Using the voters as cover Repub have vowed to desert their constitutional duties,in hopes of gaining political leverage by 2017 #DoYourJob
— Black Girls Read too 🙅🏾♀️📚 (@RedWritingHoood) March 17, 2016
https://twitter.com/msbovary/status/710263365340405760
Mitch McConnell has hit back on Twitter, posting a video of then-senator Joe Biden advocating for a Supreme Court nomination only after the 1992 election, but some users are not having it:
https://twitter.com/jellyfrog23/status/710263061890899968
https://twitter.com/JoanChoudhary/status/710263443748683776
Even Alberto Gonzales, the former U.S. attorney general under President George W. Bush, has written an op-ed in USA Today urging the Senate to give Garland a vote. He says that in refusing to vote on Garland, the Senate Republicans are behaving as hypocritically as Biden did in 1992.