Posted on 09/18/2020 8:15:29 PM PDT by MountainWalker
Ginsburg is dead, and Trump has a pick to make. What are your thoughts on a nominee?
I had been thinking ACB, but Kavanaugh got 51 votes and that wasn't right before an election. Murkowski is already a no and Collins, Romney and Sasse are looming. That means you need to hold 1 out of 3 of them and every other Republican + Pence. I don't see any Democrats breaking ranks on this.
Much as I hate to say it, I think the Democrats have a fair chance to block this nomination, and if that were to happen, I want the optics to look absolutely horrible for them as possible. Nothing could be worse for them than watching them berate a black man or woman in the hearings and vote against them while asking black people to vote for them on election day. That might be enough to pressure some Democrats to confirm.
Of course, Cocaine Mitch is 2/2 in Supreme Court pics and knows his conference better than anyone, so hopefully he can counsel the president on the best selection.
bump
Projecting such confidence would drive the left crazy and avoid a political battle he could well lose.
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What if Trump wins, but we lose the senate?
We have to fill the seat if we have the votes.
Was giving an example of how pollsters would pose the question to make it seem like a majority of Americans want him to delay the pick.
And McConnell has to explain to whom?? Absolutely no one.
If Garland was good enough to block in 2016, he’s good enough to block now.
I am really hoping that Trump and Cocaine Mitch are already playing 3D chess here and can make this happen. That being said, I don’t think their nominee should be based on sex or the color of their skin, but by the content of their character and their qualifications. On that note, why not go with the most famous constitutionalist in the country: Mark Levin? The confirmation hearings alone would be epic!
“How about Justice Elizabeth “Beth” D. Walker, West Virginia appeals court justice”
Don’t know her. She certainly has a good pedigree!
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