{"id":1262146,"date":"2022-02-01T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1262146"},"modified":"2022-02-01T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:08:08","slug":"white-house-believes-kamala-harris-could-cast-deciding-vote-for-scotus-nominee-psaki-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-believes-kamala-harris-could-cast-deciding-vote-for-scotus-nominee-psaki-says\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Believes Kamala Harris Could Cast Deciding Vote For SCOTUS Nominee, Psaki Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fwhite-house-believes-kamala-harris-could-cast-deciding-vote-for-scotus-nominee-psaki-says%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=1262146&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--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration would push for Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote for his eventual Supreme Court nominee should it be necessary, White House press secretary Jen Psaki indicated Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters have pressed the White House for more than a week on whether it is constitutional for a vice president to make a tie-breaking vote in the Senate for a SCOTUS nominee. Legal scholars on both sides of the aisle, including close allies of Biden\u2019s, have argued that the vice president cannot cast such a vote. Psaki indicated that the White House believes otherwise during a Tuesday press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week I know you said you\u2019d look for an answer on whether the vice president could break a tie on the Supreme Court vote. Have you guys come to a determination on that?\u201d a reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vice president has been the tie breaking vote for a number of judicial appointments or nominees in the past, but our intention is of course to get broad support for an eminently qualified nominee,\u201d Psaki responded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Psaki did not supply any examples of such votes during the briefing, and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for examples from the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>The White House\u2019s apparent belief that Harris could cast such a vote <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/26\/laurence-tribe-biden-harris-supreme-court-breyer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is at odds with arguments<\/a> from Harvard Law professor and Biden ally Laurence Tribe. Tribe argued in 2020 that then-Vice President Mike Pence could not cast a tie-breaking vote to approve Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>\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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/artandhistory\/history\/common\/generic\/Origins_AdviceConsent.htm\">the Senate\u2019s \u201cAdvice and Consent\u201d role<\/a>&nbsp;in approving presidential appointments to the Supreme Court,\u201d&nbsp;<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> in the Boston Globe at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Tribe reiterated Wednesday that he stands by the statement even with Biden as president.<\/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<p>Biden plans to announce a nominee to fill Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s seat by the end of February. He has also vowed that the nominee will be a black woman.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration would push for Vice President Kamala Harris to cast a tie-breaking vote for his eventual Supreme Court nominee should it be necessary, White House &#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-1262146","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\/1262146","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=1262146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262146\/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=1262146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1262146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1262146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}