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probably replace her monday
 
Chris Craig said:
Confirmed McConnell called republican constituents shortly after her death was announced to talk about replacing her. Asshole can't even wait till her body gets cold.

I will be glad when both he and Trump are gone, hopefully they get voted out in November
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Its take no prisoners anymore. All beat the other side!
 
February 2016 McConnell said it was too close to a presidential election to confirm a Supreme Court Justice. Today he said they will vote on whatever hard right unqualified nominee Trump names.

Ginsburg's dying wish was that her replacement not be named until after election, but decency is not in Trump or McConnell DNA.

Senate has been in session three weeks but has not had time for Corona virus relief or election security, but they have been confirming hard right judges.

Some vulnerable Republicans might hesitate to confirm a nominee before the election. But they could in a lame duck session even or especially if Trump loses and Republicans lose Senate majority.

Trump has said he will contest election results if he loses, a case that would almost certainly be decided by Supreme Court.
 
I saw this on reddit and I think it nails my feelings on this.

“I disagree with her jurisprudence quite often, but she was a patriot and served her country.

Her and Scalia reminded us all that you can have fundamental disagreements and still be friends and cordial colleagues, a lesson we all need nowadays.

Prayers to her family.“
 
UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
What do you bet that that slimy weasel will make it all about “context”. That seems to be a go to default when you have no other way to explain the shoe in your mouth.......
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He will say Trump isn't a lame duck president
 
corpse aint even cold and you've got all the republican vampires clamoring to get her replaced before the election with the likes of ted cruz or tom cotton

are we supposed to rely on the democrats to stop that? we are so fucked
 
i wonder if mcconell would trade slowing the appointment for a promise to not change the fillibuster rules. a wink and a knod.
 
The number of justices is Not specified by our constitution is it? The control of the senate ought to allow the process of correcting the balance I believe.

edit The Constitution places the power to determine the number of Justices in the hands of Congress. The first Judiciary Act, passed in 1789, set the number of Justices at six, one Chief Justice and five Associates. Over the years Congress has passed various acts to change this number, fluctuating from a low of five to a high of ten. The Judiciary Act of 1869 fixed the number of Justices at nine and no subsequent change to the number of Justices has occurred.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/faq_general.aspx

edit I wonder if they shorten the bench to say 7 which appointments would be instead removed from the judiciary completely? Both of the most recent? they would sit in limbo until some other administration chose appoint them somewhere else. I kind of like the optics of the payback to McConnell of this solution might provide
 
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Except that's not exactly what he said.

He said something along the lines of if the controlling party of the senate is different than the party of the president then the voters should decide.

The senate and the presidumb are the same party. It will be enough for Bitch to slam through a SC nomination.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Except that's not exactly what he said.

He said something along the lines of if the controlling party of the senate is different than the party of the president then the voters should decide.

The senate and the presidumb are the same party. It will be enough for Bitch to slam through a SC nomination.
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That's true. I posted the tweet because of the "expand the SC" part.
 
Hoopguru said:
No way he can get through a confirmation before election?
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He and McConnell both have said they're going to push through a Trump nominee.
 
She was the shield that guarded the realms of justice
We will not see her like again
And now her watch is ended
 
I found out on the big screen in the restaurant I was picking up Thai food takeout. I gasped audibly. I've never been so sucker-punched.
 
Mitch McConnell without even this slightest bit of class sends out a statement following her death.
Of course it could not be simply about her and her outstanding life or achievements. It had to include his political spin

"In the last midterm election before Justice Scalia’s death in 2016, Americans elected a Republican Senate majority because we pledged to check and balance the last days of a lame-duck president’s second term. We kept our promise. Since the 1880s, no Senate has confirmed an opposite-party president’s Supreme Court nominee in a presidential election year."

You can read the full statement here.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/18/tru...ourt-will-get-senate-vote-mcconnell-says.html
 
hoojacks said:
corpse aint even cold and you've got all the republican vampires clamoring to get her replaced before the election with the likes of ted cruz or tom cotton

are we supposed to rely on the democrats to stop that? we are so fucked
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If there was another candidate besides Hillary in 2016 we wouldn't be in this situation. I hope dem's dont screw it up again. If Joe doesn't win they dont have anyone to blame but themselves with all the great candidates that were passed up.
Sometimes you got to do personal inventory.
 
Hoopguru said:
If there was another candidate besides Hillary in 2016 we wouldn't be in this situation. I hope dem's dont screw it up again. If Joe doesn't win they dont have anyone to blame but themselves with all the great candidates that were passed up.
Sometimes you got to do personal inventory.
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I think some of that is true

there were a lot of democrats (mostly anti-Hillary) who wanted Biden to run in 2016. If it had been Biden vs Trump in 2016, Biden would have won pretty easily IMO

but keep in mind that Clinton won popular vote by 3 million votes. She got 48.2% of the vote vs trump's 46.1%. And the math is that Biden needs to win the popular vote by 2.5-3% to win the electoral college. He might have to win by 4 million votes to squeak out a win in the electoral college. Why?...because the electoral college is an obsolete piece of shit mechanism that favors R's, rural states, and white people. it's an anachronism that needs to be chucked into the trash can of history

there was also the factor of Hillary's emails that the R's were able to elevate into a scandal that had no substance. And that was mainly due to the cooperation of clueless national media that never seems to gain a real perspective on it how destructive it's herd mentality is. And of course, James Comey launched a last minute torpedo at Clinton with his pronouncement

as for all the "great candidates" the D's didn't choose....who exactly? Don't say Elizabeth Warren, or Harris or Klobuchar because the D's can't win if their candidate is a woman, not after Hillary. That's not the way it should be but it's the way it is IMO. I don't even think the R's can win with a woman right now. Not in the USA.

if women are out, who did the D's have? Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg? The socialist or the gay guy? Against trump? Good luck winning in the rust belt or Florida with those two.

after all the chatter about how the D's settled for the lesser candidate in Biden, it sure looks to me like they settled on the one with the best chance to win and election that's certain to be unfair in trump's favor

by the way, the under reported story of the 2016 election was Jill Stein and the Green Party. Their vote totals in the three states that swung the election were greater than the margin trump won by. And remember that dinner in Moscow that Michael Flynn attended? Jill Stein was there too. And the Green Party was just one more conduit that Russia used to divert votes from Clinton.
 
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