Normally a pointless redundancy, but sometimes it simply needs to be stated.
President Obama’s expressed hope today in his weekly address “that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this (Supreme Court nomination) process, and Congress, in the past” runs against another historical first for the 44th president: his unique role in history as the first US President to have ever voted to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee.
The article is seven years old and refers to Sonia Sotomayor rather than whomever he chooses to replace Scalia. But in light of the GOP’s probably lying promise to block that nomination, it rates restatement.
