White House creates Twitter account to argue for Obama’s SCOTUS nominee
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.
14 presidents.
19 #SCOTUS nominations.
All in presidential election years → https://t.co/OI0bmvoium #SCOTUSnominee pic.twitter.com/WsGRATp3z6— SCOTUS Nomination (@SCOTUSnom)
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.”
Chief Judge Merrick Garland oversaw “every aspect of the federal response to the Oklahoma City bombing.” —@POTUS pic.twitter.com/kTeiAyAtPc
— SCOTUS Nomination (@SCOTUSnom)
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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