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Twitter: Murkowski will not vote to confirm SCOTUS nomination before inauguration
Alaska Public Media ^ | September 18, 2020 | Liz Ruskin

Posted on 09/18/2020 5:08:22 PM PDT by balch3

Alaska's @lisamurkowski said today she won't confirm a new SCOTUS justice until after the inauguration day. Fair is fair, she says. My colleague @kcgrove will have a story shortly.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ginsburg; lisamurkowski; murkowski; rbg; ruthbaderginsburg; scotus; supremecourt; trump
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To: balch3

We can lose Mittens, Collins and Murk and still come out ahead with a Pence tiebreaker.


81 posted on 09/18/2020 5:38:55 PM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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To: ScottinVA

Lindsey Graham said he would not support a vote in an election year...

He said that a few years ago...Brit on Fox News


82 posted on 09/18/2020 5:42:34 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: balch3

Obviously she is incapable of being an impartial Senator, SUSPEND her Ass, Strip her from ALL Committee Assignments, Revoke her Floor Privileges,...


83 posted on 09/18/2020 5:44:18 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Hojczyk

We need to focus on re-electing Trump. There will be no replacement this year, we won’t have the votes. The replacement will be decided by who wins the Presidency and Senate.


84 posted on 09/18/2020 5:45:31 PM PDT by nbenyo
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To: Gahanna Bob

She rolled the dice and they kicked her in the pancreas.


85 posted on 09/18/2020 5:45:51 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: balch3

Collins, Sasse, Ronney, and Lee will all follow


86 posted on 09/18/2020 5:45:55 PM PDT by georgiarat (The most expensive thing in the world is a cheap Army and Navy. - Carl Vinson)
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To: balch3

This creep, Collins and Romney need to go.
As a matter of fact, nearly every GOP senator except Blackburn, Cruz, McSally and Scott.


87 posted on 09/18/2020 5:47:29 PM PDT by ZULU (Impeach John Roberts for corruption. SOROS IS "SPARTACUS" BOOKER'S LANISTA.)
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To: balch3

Perhaps we should sell Alaska back to the Rooskies.


88 posted on 09/18/2020 5:49:11 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Nicojones

There is no number cited in the constitution about what constitutes a Full Court!

The original court had only six members!

There has been as little as 5 and as many as 10!


89 posted on 09/18/2020 5:49:54 PM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: justme4now

Yes, but the country will not accept a ballot dispute resolution based on some lower appellate court if the Supreme Court ties. The country is owed a Supreme Court that can make a final decision. We are going into an unprecedented election where vote by mail is being implemented in an extraordinary manner. Democrats have already hired loads of lawyers in anticipation of lawsuits. Republicans in the senate owe the American people a mechanism for finality, not chaos.


90 posted on 09/18/2020 5:51:26 PM PDT by Nicojones
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To: balch3

Fair is fair means President Trump gets to select the next SCOTUS justice. Murkowski shouldn’t be allowed to break the rules and perversely call it fairness. What a sick woman.


91 posted on 09/18/2020 5:52:23 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: balch3

What’d be great is if Stephen Breyer, at age 82, went room temp as well. That’d mKe things really interesting.


92 posted on 09/18/2020 5:52:42 PM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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To: ScottinVA

*make


93 posted on 09/18/2020 5:53:02 PM PDT by ScottinVA (First, letÂ’s deal with the election; then weÂ’ll deal with BLM.)
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To: MCEscherHammer

Nah. It’s an election year for Linda, and she needs to act conservative.


94 posted on 09/18/2020 5:55:41 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (White Lives Matter: We're trained Capitalists.)
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To: balch3

Not filling that seat will result in a huge liberal turnout.


95 posted on 09/18/2020 5:56:47 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: norcal joe

Yes. Those 53 Trump nominees confirmed to the courts of appeals become pretty important.


96 posted on 09/18/2020 5:56:54 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: norcal joe

As far as the election shenanigans is concerned, all the turtle has to do is declare a recess..... Trump can then appoint a temporary replacement.... that takes care of election shenanigans, and the turtles hands are clean..


97 posted on 09/18/2020 5:57:17 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Communists Need To Be Eliminated)
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To: Nicojones

With Ginsburg’s seat vacant, that leaves:
- 4 “known conservative” votes
- 1 “swing vote” (Roberts)
- 3 leftist votes.

Roberts is likely to lean towards the Constitutional position, along with the other conservatives.

Now an 8-member Supreme Court has actually become MORE conservative than it was yesterday.


98 posted on 09/18/2020 6:06:09 PM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: Hojczyk

That’s what naysayers said four years ago about Garland.


99 posted on 09/18/2020 6:10:41 PM PDT by Impy (Thug Lives Splatter - China delenda est)
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To: balch3
I read Murkowski said Election Day, not "inauguration," implying she would on like November 15 or some such.
100 posted on 09/18/2020 6:14:46 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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