Lawrence Journal-World opinion section

To the editor:

I am respectfully making a request to Sens. Pat Roberts and Jerry Moran: Do your job as outlined in the U.S. Constitution and call for consideration of Judge Merrick Garland’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. It is time for you and your colleagues to discontinue this disrespect for the office of the presidency and carry out your responsibilities as duly elected representatives of the people of Kansas. There is no justifiable excuse for not doing so.

The people of this country have already spoken in selecting President Obama as president in the election of 2012. He won a majority of the electoral and popular vote. In case you and your colleagues have forgotten, he is the duly elected president until his term expires in January.

The obstructionism that has occurred in Congress over the past several years on both sides of the aisle is no excuse for failing to abide by the mandates set down by the framers of our Constitution. There is no “Biden rule” or any other rule that excuses you from doing your duty.

This obstructionism and inability to compromise is the very reason the electorate is angry at all those in office who have hidden behind its cloak of inaction. It is the very reason an egotistical reality star who is unfit for office is leading in the Republican presidential primary.