Posted on 02/14/2016 2:52:28 AM PST by SMGFan
I don’t understand God’s plan here. He took Scalia out during a recess. Maybe it is to force Mcconnells hand and then have a true revolt at voting time.
Or may God is just an Obama loving lib.
Our country is going to hell.
These idiots in DC will capitulate the country down the river. The Left will put up the most egregious clown they can, and the repbs will allow it to happen, without saying anything.
Alito and Thomas are Obama hacks? Oh really?
The Jarrett Admin isn’t going to squander a lifetime Cabal pick for a one term recess appointment. Not yet, anyway.
There is no current danger from the Senate being in recess. Later, maybe?
But first, the left and her media sycophants will squeal like stuck pigs to see if they can’t break any resolve not to nominate.
A vote for another Jarrett SC member would make a GOP vote for Obamacare seem like a prudent political position, by comparison. The republican casting that vote better be retiring or changing parties.
The line in the sand is right here.
To quote one of my favorite actors, “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
"I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease." Julianne Malveaux- tolerant liberal spokesperson
Except for that fact that they will become inaccessible if we wait that long. THOSE WHO GIVE THE ORDERS should already be having "accidents" or jus disappearing.
and how much damage would a permanent appointment do over the next 30 years or so?
that would be a lot to accomplish in less than a year. I’m more worried about the damage they could manage over the next 30 years. I seriously doubt the congress will stall him for 11 months.
Any one of the soon-to-be-heard cases will hasten the demise of the republic.
A recess appointment is far too risky.
Trump has it just right:
Delay-Delay-Delay-Delay
They won’t delay for 11 months. they will consent.
They’re NOT recessed, they’re just adjourned:
“ORDERS FOR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2016, THROUGH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016
Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that when the
Senate completes its business today, it adjourn, to then convene for
pro forma sessions only, with no business being conducted, on the
following dates and times, and that following each pro forma session,
the Senate adjourn until the next pro forma session: Monday, February
15, at 11 a.m.; Thursday, February 18, at 9 a.m.; I further ask that
when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, February 18, it next convene at 3
p.m., Monday, February 22,”
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2016/2/12/senate-section/article/S887-4
You could be right and it’s very disturbing. We will see if Americans take it lying down.
Whatever needs to be done to prevent a recess appointment is necessary, but I bet he makes the appointment early tomorrow morning. He plays hardball and won’t miss this opportunity.
What OS are you running? Your system might have “keyboard bounce”
What I do not know is whether the Chief Justice has the power to do this on his own or whether a majority of sitting SCOTUS members must approve of a postponement and re-argument of such controversial cases. The rationale would be "judicial economy" since a tie vote invites new cases on the same questions after the new justice is seated.
Oh they’ll say plenty pandering to voters. They just won’t DO anything.
This language should be reconsidered by any Article V convention as it was designed to keep government functions going when travel was by horse and buggy and Congress only met for a few months each year.
In 2014, SCOTUS UNANIMOUSLY construed this section of the constitution to apply ONLY when Congress (by its own intention) is in a lengthy recess or adjournment for the session. It appears that this means actual adjounment of the session or after some disaster like Obozo's Islamonazi pals setting off a suitcase nuke in DC killing most members of Court and Congress while Obozo is playing golf in California or on Martha's Vineyard.
Mushball McConnell has all the authority necessary to call the Senate BACK into session and keep it that way until Obozo leaves office or until Armaggedon whichever comes first.
No, there is no current danger from Mushball McConnell calling the Senate IMMEDIATELY back into session and holding perfunctory “meetings” every few days to note the absence of a quorum until the Senate can be back fully in place, and no current danger from KEEPING the Senate in continuous session until Obozo is gone.
I do. God's plan is to chastise America and the western world for living the Great Apostasy and abandoning God's word. Mediocre candidates, poor leaders. War in the Mideast and into Europe, and (at least) political chaos and class and race based strife in America. Divisiveness and polarization leading to a paralyzed political process. Uncontrolled immigration breeding fervent nationalism and the cruel extremes that can bring. Things will go downhill from there. If Baba Vanga, the Bulgarian mystic was right, expect Europe to be unrecognizable by the end of this year and full worldwide Communism by 2060.
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