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The Latest: Civil rights groups want court vote postponed (Kennedy replacement)
KVEO-TV ^
| June 27, 2018
| The Associated Press
Posted on 06/27/2018 8:55:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Various civil rights groups are backing calls from Democratic lawmakers to hold off on a vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement until after the November elections.
Vanita Gupta, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, says senators need to put country over party and use every tool to stop what she calls President Donald Trump's plan "to take over the Supreme Court for the next 40 years."
Despite the Republican majority, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund says she's confident senators can be persuaded to hold off....
(Excerpt) Read more at kveo.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; kennedy; scotus; supremecourt; trump
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Forty years!
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/27/2018 8:56:30 PM PDT
by
raiderboy
(Trump has assured us that he will shut down the government to get the WALL in Sept.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/27/2018 8:58:21 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Vanilla! Go back to the ****hole you crawled out of. We have a U.S. Constitution we go by here in OUR country. Go the hell home, Biatch.
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posted on
06/27/2018 8:59:51 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Don't pass up the opportunity to use the Second Amendment today! IT'S FREE!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:00:51 PM PDT
by
catnipman
((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We Won ! Elections have consequences! Didn't your lord and savior "Obama" say that ?!
Suck It Democrats !
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:01:50 PM PDT
by
Newbomb Turk
(Hey Newbomb, where is your bothers ElCamino ?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But they all pitched a raging fit when the hearings for Obama’s Scalia replacement were held off until after the election didn’t they? Such hypocrites!
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:01:56 PM PDT
by
boatbums
(The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:02:44 PM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The “civil rights” haters are passing a lot of stinky gas right now.
Go F yourselves, NAACP and your racist brethen!!! We won, you lost, to the winners go the spoils. We put up with your choom gang America-hating POTUS for eight long years.
It’s your turn to suffer now, and your pain is my joy.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:02:57 PM PDT
by
RooRoobird20
("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I guess, I don’t know, it sounds really silly, but they could have picked a better candidate to run against PDJT and then their person might be picking nominees...
Actually, sorry, I’m terribly happy that they didn’t.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:04:02 PM PDT
by
kingu
(Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
To: RooRoobird20
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:04:53 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Its not their court.
Further he could appoint as many justices as he wants. There is nothing that says the court has to be at 9 justices.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:05:11 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Boo-Hoo
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:05:45 PM PDT
by
txnativegop
(The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They aren’t “civil rights groups “
They are America hating pinkos.
Just my opinion.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:07:45 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Awsome! More obstruction for the dems to run on.
This in another big hole in the dems garbage barge of a platform, riding the November blue wave. Abandon Ship!....er...barge!
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:10:17 PM PDT
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
You can’t always get what you want!! (Rolling Stones)
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:10:40 PM PDT
by
DarthVader
("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well Bitch McConnell seems to have already kicked it down the road till the autumn. Heck summer isn't even a week old. But Bitch wants to hold the ball until the clock runs out.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:11:26 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(MAGA in the mornin', MAGA in the evenin', MAGA at suppertime . . .)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats demand Republicans support their picks and give us radicals, then refuse to support our choices on grounds we will do the same.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:11:46 PM PDT
by
Luke21
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Country over party coming from them is such crap.
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posted on
06/27/2018 9:11:59 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
To: FlingWingFlyer
OMG, I love you.
Stay on offense, all of you and us.
You are so right, this is not your home if you are going to cry and moan about everything American.
GO HOME. GO HOME. GO HOME.
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