RBG leaves the stage.

"Wait, it is all politics?" --- "Always has been!"

Puppycow said:
I agree. It really shouldn't be a political thing at all, in an ideal world. But it's been political for a long time. Perhaps from the very beginning. Certainly since Roe v. Wade.
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Everything is political. Especially the things that people say shouldn't be.
 
Segnosaur said:
... ETA: I would be all for the removal of Trump's appointees. However, I think conviction/removal in the senate requires a 2/3rds vote. Even if the Democrats manage to control the senate after the next election, I doubt they'd get enough seats to remove them from the court by themselves, and I can't see any republican senators joining with the Democrats to remove them.
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Yet another sound reason for tremendous pessimism. Watch now as everything anyone decent wishes to do is declared unconstitutional, and SCOTUS interprets the law of the land as being for white males only, and only those who pray and repeat orders properly.
 
Earthborn said:
Everything is political. Especially the things that people say shouldn't be.
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But not all things should be partisan; say, the basic idea of equality before the law (even if the DoI is very poorly argued). My point being that "political" has alternate meanings here, and the criticism is that SCOTUS should not be partisan, much less a group of ignorant bigots.
 
Trump actually surprised me in showing some actual grace upon hearing of RBG's death. He didn't make a disgusting, nasty, inappropriate remark for once.
 
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1307104888963428357

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.
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There he's directly quoting McConnell.

And here's MConnell's statement: https://twitter.com/vrexford/status/1307123623107481600

Basically, it was right not to elect someone until Trump was in because there was a Republican majority, therefore that's what the people wanted, and it's right to elect someone now before the election because there's a Republican majority and therefore that's what the people want.
 
Hlafordlaes said:
Anyone now appointed, and Trump's two appointees, should all be immediately impeached in 2121 as having being selected to protect a criminal and his treasonous party.
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I agree. But how many democratic congressmen and women have the backbone to do any such thing?

Also: One step closer to a seemingly inevitable civil war.
 
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marting said:
If Trump loses he'll have even more reason to push through a vote. No way will he pass up that chance.
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If he loses I think it's equally likely he just loses all interest in everything even vaguely work related and goes off in a pout to play golf or flee the country. Whether it's then pushed through in his name is a different matter.
 
Stacyhs said:
Trump actually surprised me in showing some actual grace upon hearing of RBG's death. He didn't make a disgusting, nasty, inappropriate remark for once.
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Dying is the best she's ever done for him, in his eyes. He's bigly grateful and happy he's now one step towards turning the US into a dictatorship.
 
Here’s What HRC Said About Filling A Supreme Court Vacancy In 2016

“The president has a responsibility to nominate a new justice and the Senate has a responsibility to vote.”

that's the line that will be used to justify rushing someone through.

How can the Dems complain when it's what they wanted last time?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Here’s What HRC Said About Filling A Supreme Court Vacancy In 2016

“The president has a responsibility to nominate a new justice and the Senate has a responsibility to vote.”

that's the line that will be used to justify rushing someone through.

How can the Dems complain when it's what they wanted last time?
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Republicans are just following their age-old principle of "Heads I win, Tails you lose."
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1307104888963428357



There he's directly quoting McConnell.

And here's MConnell's statement: https://twitter.com/vrexford/status/1307123623107481600

Basically, it was right not to elect someone until Trump was in because there was a Republican majority, therefore that's what the people wanted, and it's right to elect someone now before the election because there's a Republican majority and therefore that's what the people want.
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Yeah, those are his specious justifications. What it really comes down to, though, is that four years ago, he and the GOP said it should be no problem to wait a full year to hear what the American people had to say on the subject, then filling the position according to that say; today, the position must absolutely be filled, right now, before that voice is heard, because the GOP might not have that majority (or the Presidency) afterward.
 
Elagabalus said:
I don't know, Trump looked genuinely stunned to hear that she died. See Joe Morgue's comments.


http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=13228490#post13228490
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Ha! Trump was stunned!

It doesn't matter. He's not driving the Supreme Court pick train.

He is given a list of people who Mitch McConnell the Evangelical groups want to have as a Supreme Court justice and he appoints one of those.

1. Evil Twat
2. Really Evil Twat
3. Really ******* Evil Twat.
4. The One that is so freaking much of an evil twat that we put the name on the list for a freaking joke.

Trump: "Give me number 4!"
 
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