President Obama hasn’t kept all his POTUS promises,
but his vow to forge ahead and make an election-year Supreme Court
justice nomination was just honored with high-tech,info-attack fury.
The president announced Merrick Garland as his SCOTUS pick
Wednesday morning, just hours after the launch of a dedicated Twitter
account to try and ensure that the public has “the facts on President
Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.” At the handle @SCOTUSnom, the
account tweets about Garland’s qualifications, as well as
constitutional- and precedent-based arguments for an election-year
SCOTUS nomination, something which some GOP naysayers have called “unprecedented.”
Since this White House has created plenty of pop-up social media accounts to gain favor in the court of public opinion (@FactsOnClimate, @TheIranDeal), @SCOTUSnom is really business as usual.
This is the Twitter bully pulpit. This is how politics works now.
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