{"id":1244407,"date":"2022-01-26T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1244407"},"modified":"2022-01-26T18:07:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T23:07:03","slug":"top-biden-legal-ally-says-kamala-harris-cant-break-a-tie-for-bidens-scotus-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-biden-legal-ally-says-kamala-harris-cant-break-a-tie-for-bidens-scotus-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Biden Legal Ally Says Kamala Harris Can\u2019t Break A Tie For Biden\u2019s SCOTUS Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-biden-legal-ally-says-kamala-harris-cant-break-a-tie-for-bidens-scotus-nominee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1244407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A legal ally of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has stated that vice presidents do not have the authority to make a tie-breaking vote for a Supreme Court nominee\u2019s approval in the Senate, potentially throwing a wrench in the administration\u2019s attempt to replace Justice Stephen Breyer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law professor, has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/05\/biden-admin-laurence-tribe-cdc-eviction-moratorium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previously advised the administration<\/a> on at least one questionable legal move: the extension of a federal eviction moratorium in August. Revelations of Breyer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/26\/justice-stephen-breyer-retire-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">intent to retire<\/a> broke Wednesday, though the 87-year-old has not formally announced the move. The news puts Biden in the position of having to pass a nominee through a 50-50 Senate, raising the question of whether Harris can cast a tie-breaking vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/26\/democrats-russia-trump-election-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>(RELATED: Majority Of Democrats Believe A Straight-Up Conspiracy Theory)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tribe previously weighed in on the issue in September of 2020, when he argued \u201cthe vice president doesn\u2019t have the power to break a tie\u201d on an appointment. Tribe made the statement as Republicans were gearing up to approve former President Donald Trump\u2019s final SCOTUS nominee, then-judge Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhile the vice president has the power to cast a tiebreaking vote to pass a bill, the Constitution does not give him [or her] the power to break ties when it comes to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/generic\/Origins_AdviceConsent.htm\"><span>the Senate\u2019s \u201cAdvice and Consent\u201d role<\/span><\/a><span> in approving presidential appointments to the Supreme Court,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/09\/23\/opinion\/no-hiding-behind-pences-skirt-supreme-court-nomination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he wrote<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6587331\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6587331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe is pictured. (Screenshot\/PBS)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked about his past position on Wednesday, Tribe was regretful, but didn\u2019t back down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wrote that piece around 15 months ago and have not thought about the issue since,\u201d he said in a statement to RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann. \u201cI doubt that I would reach a new conclusion upon re-examining the matter even though, given the current political circumstances, I obviously wish the situation were otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Full statement to RCP from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tribelaw?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tribelaw<\/a> who Biden personally requested his White House seek out previously for counsel: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7E3oqESLUD\">pic.twitter.com\/7E3oqESLUD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1486448533343555587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tribe is not alone in his analysis. Fellow Harvard Law professor and Trump ally Alan Dershowitz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/can-vice-president-break-tie-supreme-court-confirmation-opinion-1533563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">also argued against<\/a> the vice president casting a deciding vote in September 2020, though he stopped short of saying it was truly unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil recently, the Senate never had to face these questions. Supreme Court nominees needed a supermajority under the Senate\u2019s rules and traditions. A tie vote defeated a nomination,\u201d Dershowitz wrote at the time. \u201cPartisan decisions by both parties (ending the filibuster and deploying the nuclear option) brought an end to that safeguard. So now all that is required to confirm controversial and divisive Supreme Court nominees is a simple majority. But a tie vote broken by the vice president would weaken even that requirement, encouraging presidents to nominate increasingly divisive justices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my view, the Framers made a mistake by not requiring a supermajority for the confirmation of a justice to a lifelong term. The requirement of a supermajority \u2014 whether of two-thirds or three-fifths \u2014 would incentivize a president to nominate consensus candidates who require the votes of at least some senators from the opposing party,\u201d he continued, adding that a decision from senators to allow Pence to cast a deciding vote would push the court \u201cfurther down the road of divisiveness and politicization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to comment Wednesday on anything relating to Breyer\u2019s potential departure until the justice has formally announced his retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legal ally of President Joe Biden\u2019s administration has stated that vice presidents do not have the authority to make a tie-breaking vote for a Supreme Court nominee\u2019s approval in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}