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MARIS61

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So with 5 lefty activists still running the court, I think all reasonable Americans agree we need a non-political judge who will rule solely on the Constitution and laws as they are written. That's the entire job description.

Who's your favorite for the position? :dunno:
 
George Soros!

barfo
 
You know when it comes to judges it’s hard to say.
What I want is an honest hard working knowledgeable judge who will follow the rule of law and interpretations of the constitution as it was written and make good solid decisions that they honestly feel is best for this country going forward.
That can be a liberal leaning or conservative leaning judge.
Doesn’t really matter to me. But I am probably the most conservative liberal you have ever heard of.
 
2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas):
“It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”

2018, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.):
“If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait to the next election.”

2016, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.):
“I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term - I would say that if it was a Republican president.”

2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.):
“The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”

2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa):
“A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”

2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.):
“The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”

2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.):
“In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”

2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.):
“The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”

2016, Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Col.):
“I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”

2016, Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio):
“I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.”

2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.):
“I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”

“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” — Mitch McConnell, March 2016
 
Politicians are self-serving hypocrites. Who knew? Biden has played both sides of this particular fence several times in his career:

“Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden argued furiously in 2016 for the Senate to consider a Supreme Court nomination in the midst of an election season, complicating his party's efforts to derail Republicans' stated intent to proceed with President Donald Trump's replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her death Friday evening.

In justifying their decision to block Merrick Garland's appointment to the Supreme Court in March 2016, Republicans at the time cited a floor speech Biden made as a senator in 1992 in which he staunchly opposed the idea of holding confirmation hearings for prospective justices, calling it the "Biden Rule."

But Biden, by then the vice president, blasted the GOP justification as "frankly ridiculous," saying that such a rule "doesn't exist."

"I was responsible for eight justices and nine total nominees on the Supreme Court – more than, I hate to say this, anyone alive," Biden told a group of law students at Georgetown University in March 2016. "Some I supported, a few I voted against. But in all that time, every nominee was greeted by committee members, every nominee got a committee hearing, every nominee got out of the committee even if they didn't have sufficient votes to pass within the committee."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.us...vote-on-new-supreme-court-justice?context=amp
 
It’s funny that people (not just here...everywhere) are using quotes from Republicans like it means a goddamn thing. It doesn’t. There is no more integrity or honesty or character anymore. It doesn’t matter. Nothing matters. This is just how it is, maybe not forever, but as long as we have Trump. Stop and think about what he has said over the past four years. Nothingggggg matters. Just have to hope the election is a landslide.
 
a lot of legal eagles have been arguing for years that the SC needs to be expanded. If Biden wins and the D's win the senate while holding the house, that might finally happen

and it needs to be a significant expansion too; not 11 judges, and 13 might be too small as well. It should not be a constitutional crisis any time a SC judge dies or retires. And if there were 15 or 17 or 19 judges, like circuit courts can have, there's a much better chance there will be balance and less extreme views controlling from the edges.
 
e_blazer said:
Politicians are self-serving hypocrites. Who knew? Biden has played both sides of this particular fence several times in his career:

“Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden argued furiously in 2016 for the Senate to consider a Supreme Court nomination in the midst of an election season, complicating his party's efforts to derail Republicans' stated intent to proceed with President Donald Trump's replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her death Friday evening.

In justifying their decision to block Merrick Garland's appointment to the Supreme Court in March 2016, Republicans at the time cited a floor speech Biden made as a senator in 1992 in which he staunchly opposed the idea of holding confirmation hearings for prospective justices, calling it the "Biden Rule."

But Biden, by then the vice president, blasted the GOP justification as "frankly ridiculous," saying that such a rule "doesn't exist."

"I was responsible for eight justices and nine total nominees on the Supreme Court – more than, I hate to say this, anyone alive," Biden told a group of law students at Georgetown University in March 2016. "Some I supported, a few I voted against. But in all that time, every nominee was greeted by committee members, every nominee got a committee hearing, every nominee got out of the committee even if they didn't have sufficient votes to pass within the committee."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.usnews.com/news/elections/articles/2020-09-18/bidens-2016-arguments-support-republican-vote-on-new-supreme-court-justice?context=amp
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UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
Hillary
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lord have mercy!
 
wizenheimer said:
a lot of legal eagles have been arguing for years that the SC needs to be expanded. If Biden wins and the D's win the senate while holding the house, that might finally happen

and it needs to be a significant expansion too; not 11 judges, and 13 might be too small as well. It should not be a constitutional crisis any time a SC judge dies or retires. And if there were 15 or 17 or 19 judges, like circuit courts can have, there's a much better chance there will be balance and less extreme views controlling from the edges.
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A smaller court is only ideal when you have honest people both on the court, in the White House and in the Senate.
 
MARIS61 said:
So with 5 lefty activists still running the court, I think all reasonable Americans agree we need a non-political judge who will rule solely on the Constitution and laws as they are written. That's the entire job description.

Who's your favorite for the position? :dunno:
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Nancy Pelosi
 
julius said:
Wait, there are 5 "leftists" on the court?

In what universe?
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Maris's apparently

In reality, there are

(With RBG gone)

3 liberal judges (Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer

1 centrist ( John Roberts)

4 conservatives (Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas)
 
Chris Craig said:
Maris's apparently

In reality, there are

(With RBG gone)

3 liberal judges (Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer

1 centrist ( John Roberts)

4 conservatives (Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas)
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I count 5 fascists and 3 conservatives ;)
 
Chris Craig said:
Maris's apparently

In reality, there are

(With RBG gone)

3 liberal judges (Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer

1 centrist ( John Roberts)

4 conservatives (Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Thomas)
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3 of those 4 Conservatives don't belong there. Thomas and Kavanaugh for lying under testimony and Gorsuch for taking the rightful place of judge Merick Garland.
 
Hoopguru said:
Down here at Fart Stevens wife & I, sipping on some Knob Creek. The 5th wheel across from us has a Blue line Flag which im good with but the Trump/Pence poster, Ill burn before the nights over.
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Is Fart Stevens anywhere near Fort Stevens?
 
Hoopguru said:
Down here at Fart Stevens wife & I, sipping on some Knob Creek.
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there are a lot of things creepy about that sentence

but fart stevens?

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