{"id":2968,"date":"2016-02-24T11:50:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:58:34","slug":"can-the-senate-waive-their-legal-obligation-to-consent-and-confirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2016\/02\/24\/can-the-senate-waive-their-legal-obligation-to-consent-and-confirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Senate waive their legal obligation to &#8220;consent and confirm&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not heard any constitutional scholars weigh in but if the Republican controlled Senate lead by Mitch McConnell have their way and refuse a hearing to any Obama nominee to the Supreme Court have they effectively waived their opportunity to &#8220;consent and confirm&#8221; under the Constitution?\u00a0 If so, who confirms the nominee?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve not heard any constitutional scholars weigh in but if the Republican controlled Senate lead by Mitch McConnell have their way and refuse a hearing to any Obama nominee to the Supreme Court have they effectively waived their opportunity to &#8220;consent and confirm&#8221; under the Constitution?\u00a0 If so, who confirms the nominee?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}