As has been reported by multiple media outlets, President Barack Obama is actively considering appointing Gov. Brian Sandoval (R-NV) to the seat on the U.S. Supreme Court that is currently vacant due to the death of Antonin Scalia.
Replacing Scalia with Sandoval would retain a right-wing conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and, even worse, Sandoval has, as Governor of Nevada, shown horrific judgement on many accounts. Arguably the worst thing that Sandoval has done since being elected to Nevada’s highest office was dumping mentally ill people on California:
The city of San Francisco is suing Nevada over a state psychiatric facility that allegedly dumped thousands of poor and homeless patients with mental illnesses onto buses with one-way tickets to states like California and told them to seek medical care there. City attorneys claim that the practice cost San Francisco $500,000 in public funds to house and treat patients who should have been receiving care at the Rawson-Neal psychiatric hospital in Nevada, and that the lawsuit (which officials hope to make a class-action one) is meant to hold the state accountable in addition to reclaiming expenses.
“Homeless, psychiatric patients are especially vulnerable to the kind of practices Nevada engaged in, and the lawsuit I’ve filed today is about more than just compensation,” said San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera in a statement. “It’s about accountability.”
Someone who has displayed that kind of recklessness doesn’t belong anywhere near our nation’s highest judicial bench. I would strongly encourage Senate Democrats to vote against confirming Sandoval to the Supreme Court, should he be nominated by President Obama and the Senate actually does its duty of conducting a confirmation process.
If you’re wondering why so many Democrats are supporting Bernie Sanders for president, it’s because of ridiculous ideas like appointing a right-winger like Sandoval to the Supreme Court, which Sanders is likely to oppose.