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  Do you believe a Supreme Court nominee’s political views should play a role in his/her approval by the Senate? One of the biggest questions that have been disturbing people is whether the political views of a judicial court nominee affect their senate’s opinion during their nomination. While others think the political views of the judicial nominee affect the senate’s decision, others do not feel the same. Nonetheless, from history, it has been proved that the president’s party controls the Senate. Therefore, the president’s nominee has always been nominated into the judiciary.

According to a post by Bomboy (2014) in his blog, president Obama told his supporters that there was the need to have more democrats in the senate so that their approval of his Supreme Court nominee is effective. This was oblivious of the fact that Justices Stephen Breyer and Bader Ginsburg were not even close to retiring. In turn, the statement drew a lot of attention to the white house, as well as tons of clarifications.

According to the constitution, the president is allowed to make a nomination of a Supreme Court justice, but it is the duty of the Senate to approve the nominees through a majority vote. However, it becomes complicated for the president’s nominee to get through when the Senate is controlled by a different political party from the president’s. If the vice versa is true, the president’s nominee has a big chance (“How Judges and Justices Are Chosen [ushistory.org]”, 2016).

There is only one time in 1991 when a president’s nominee, Clarence Thomas managed to be chosen even though George Bush’s political party did not rule the senate. During that year, while the Republicans had 45 seats, the democrats had 55. Thomas’ nomination went through with democrats’ eleven swinging votes. Still, even though the nomination of Thomas was politically influenced, the nominee of George Bush in 1990 received 90 votes from the senate that was controlled by Democrats (Bomboy, 2014).

Similarly, doing the final years of the administration of Reagan, while a democrat’s senate nominated Anthony Kennedy and Robert Borke failed. Looking back from the Second World War, the official Supreme Court nominees have been 38. Out of those, eight of them faced withdrawals. Out of the remaining successful 30 nominees from 1945, 45% (13) of them succeeded even when the president’s political parties did not control the senate. From the above analysis, one issue is apparent. Thus, the nominee of a president has higher chances of success when the president’s political party ruled the senate (Bomboy, 2014).