Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
Sep 19, 2020 14:55:04 #
If the parties were reversed, if we had a Dem Senate and a Dem POTUS facing significant risk of losing the election...the Dems would ram through a pick in record time, regardless of any oaths they stated four years ago.
They are all worms.
This is what we elect.
They are all worms.
This is what we elect.
Sep 19, 2020 14:59:13 #
mwalsh wrote:
Mitch, who once loudly proclaimed that a SCOTUS seat must not be considered a year from the election, will sell his soul to get one approved less than fifty days from the election.
Your assume facts not in evidence, a trait that runs rampant on the UHH. McConnell didn't say when the vote would occur; just that one would be held.
Sep 19, 2020 15:03:59 #
mwalsh wrote:
If the parties were reversed, if we had a Dem Senate and a Dem POTUS facing significant risk of losing the election...the Dems would ram through a pick in record time, regardless of any oaths they stated four years ago.
They are all worms.
This is what we elect.
They are all worms.
This is what we elect.
All I was stating was what has been the precedent.
It's amazing to me that Dems think things should be done differently this year, as opposed to the past 140 years, just because the President is Donald Trump. The only problem there is that Trump won't back down - no matter how much the Dems riot, loot, burn and otherwise throw their tantrums.
Sep 19, 2020 16:19:44 #
EdJ0307 wrote:
McConnell sold his soul when Trump was elected.
Not just Mitch, Lindsey elevated flip-flopping hypocrisy to an art form.
Sep 19, 2020 16:26:31 #
drainbamage wrote:
All I was stating was what has been the precedent.
It's amazing to me that Dems think things should be done differently this year, as opposed to the past 140 years, just because the President is Donald Trump. The only problem there is that Trump won't back down - no matter how much the Dems riot, loot, burn and otherwise throw their tantrums.
It's amazing to me that Dems think things should be done differently this year, as opposed to the past 140 years, just because the President is Donald Trump. The only problem there is that Trump won't back down - no matter how much the Dems riot, loot, burn and otherwise throw their tantrums.
Just like it was amazing the republicans under McConnell did exactly the same this 4 years ago with much more time available back then .
The rule must be consistent and not change with the party in the Whitehouse and senate .
Sep 19, 2020 17:03:07 #
Let the games begin!
John W. Dean
@JohnWDean
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18h
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@JoeBiden must announce that if the GOP rushes to pack the Court, the Dems will expand the SCOTUS to 11 justices, and expand the lower federal courts by 70 to 100 new judgeships, which have long been needed. In short, he will depoliticize the federal judiciary!
John W. Dean
@JohnWDean
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18h
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@JoeBiden must announce that if the GOP rushes to pack the Court, the Dems will expand the SCOTUS to 11 justices, and expand the lower federal courts by 70 to 100 new judgeships, which have long been needed. In short, he will depoliticize the federal judiciary!
Sep 19, 2020 17:55:26 #
Triple G wrote:
Let the games begin!
John W. Dean
@JohnWDean
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18h
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@JoeBiden must announce that if the GOP rushes to pack the Court, the Dems will expand the SCOTUS to 11 justices, and expand the lower federal courts by 70 to 100 new judgeships, which have long been needed. In short, he will depoliticize the federal judiciary!
John W. Dean
@JohnWDean
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18h
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@JoeBiden must announce that if the GOP rushes to pack the Court, the Dems will expand the SCOTUS to 11 justices, and expand the lower federal courts by 70 to 100 new judgeships, which have long been needed. In short, he will depoliticize the federal judiciary!
Your logic on this is more screwed up than I thought possible. If Biden were to do this it would politicize this more. Not depoliticize it. Or is this John Dean's logic, which is equally screwed up?
Sep 19, 2020 20:52:39 #
mwalsh wrote:
That was not the argument put forth by the GOP in ... (show quote)
Got a link to this “oath”.
Sep 19, 2020 22:41:14 #
yhtomit wrote:
Got a link to this “oath”.
Google Lindsey Graham
He was quite explicit...even said hold me accountable to my words.
But now he isn't
Sep 20, 2020 08:12:24 #
gmcase wrote:
That will add some fire to the already inferno raging. She tried to outlast Trump but failed.
Sep 20, 2020 08:53:13 #
drainbamage wrote:
All I was stating was what has been the precedent.
It's amazing to me that Dems think things should be done differently this year, as opposed to the past 140 years, just because the President is Donald Trump. The only problem there is that Trump won't back down - no matter how much the Dems riot, loot, burn and otherwise throw their tantrums.
It's amazing to me that Dems think things should be done differently this year, as opposed to the past 140 years, just because the President is Donald Trump. The only problem there is that Trump won't back down - no matter how much the Dems riot, loot, burn and otherwise throw their tantrums.
What happened to that precedent in 2016?
I think it has little to do with the President being Donald Trump. It has everything to do with McConnell and his 2016 statement (excuse) that we should not allow the sitting president to exercise his duty to put forth a nominee and the Senate's responsibility to grant a fair hearing to that nominee whenever a vacancy occurs.
Now, facing the same situation, but with an opportunity to confirm a conservative replacement, McConnell ignores the phony statement he made as an excuse in 2016.
Conservatives on this forum will excuse McConnell by hypothetically stating that Democrats, in the same situation, would do the same thing. That may or may not be true, but, to me, is not an excuse. Lindsay Graham backed McConnell up in 2016, going so far as to say that he would be true to that statement (excuse) if the situation were ever reversed (adding something to the effect that you could point your finger at him if he were not true to his word when the time came). Now, the situation is exactly reversed. The time has come, and my finger is pointing at you, Lindsay!
Caruso
Sep 20, 2020 09:15:26 #
Carusoswi wrote:
What happened to that precedent in 2016? br I thin... (show quote)
Of course democrats would do the same thing but that's no excuse. This is how politics work these days and we allow it.
Sep 20, 2020 09:24:17 #
mwalsh wrote:
Google Lindsey Graham
He was quite explicit...even said hold me accountable to my words.
But now he isn't
He was quite explicit...even said hold me accountable to my words.
But now he isn't
There was no oath.
Sep 20, 2020 09:28:29 #
Carusoswi wrote:
What happened to that precedent in 2016? br I thin... (show quote)
McConnell didn't say when the vote would occur; just that one would be held.
Sep 20, 2020 09:45:21 #
Carusoswi wrote:
What happened to that precedent in 2016? br I thin... (show quote)
26 times before this has happened as is now happening in 2020.
The Senate was Republican controlled in 2016, stupid obummer was a lame duck POS.
Precedent IS to proceed with the nomination.
Trump also is NOT a lame duck president and he has the Senate.
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