Trebissky wrote:
No, see, THEIR advice was "No, don't hire her, we don't like her."
No. See, their likes and dislikes are immaterial. They're not the President.
And their Constitutional charge is NOT to advise & deny. Their explicit, enumerated Constitutional duty is: "Advice and Consent".
    ARTICLE 2. SECTION 2.
    2 He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.

They are empowered to withhold their consent if the nominee is not qualified.
But the claim that this nominee is not qualified is transparently bogus.

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