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Supreme Court War Gaming
Me | 9/18/2020 | Me

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.


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1 posted on 09/18/2020 8:15:29 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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any conservative women in Utah?


2 posted on 09/18/2020 8:17:40 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced")
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Collins has a very close election in less than 50 days.

Go ahead and vote no.


3 posted on 09/18/2020 8:17:54 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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Would absolutely love it if they picked a black conservative woman for war gaming.


4 posted on 09/18/2020 8:18:12 PM PDT by JoanSmith
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Any Republican Senator who stonewalls this will commit political suicide and they all know it.


5 posted on 09/18/2020 8:18:45 PM PDT by Drew68
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The SCOTUS needs to be reconfigured to 3-1-5 prior to the upcoming election theft attempts.


6 posted on 09/18/2020 8:19:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (need)
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If it throwaway vote for Collins, while the nominee gets confirmed anyway, and she saves her seat - FINE WITH ME!


7 posted on 09/18/2020 8:20:06 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: MountainWalker

Hope Murkowski tries making friends with a Kodiak bear.

It’s been done before.


8 posted on 09/18/2020 8:20:37 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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Is this Karma for Democrats? They have poisoned the well so much on Supreme Court nominations, that this one could bite them in the butt.

If we have a solid conservative, if she’s a black woman, that would be ideal for the racial/sexual politics the liberals constantly play.


9 posted on 09/18/2020 8:21:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I want Sylvia Thompson ... but I dream a lot. There are one or two really scholarly black ladies Trump can choose from. He needs this momentum changer.


10 posted on 09/18/2020 8:21:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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Can we find an strict constructionist who also is about 25 years old?


11 posted on 09/18/2020 8:22:16 PM PDT by PGR88
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> berate a black man or woman in the hearings and vote against them while asking black people to vote for them on election day.

You underestimate their hypocrisy and the insanity of their supporters.

Ever heard of Clarence Thomas?


12 posted on 09/18/2020 8:22:54 PM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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Tom Cotton!


13 posted on 09/18/2020 8:23:08 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: MountainWalker

My thought is that Britt Grant, 11th CCA, age 42, is an ideal nominee for President Trump. Let the Leftists oppose her confirmation at their peril.


14 posted on 09/18/2020 8:23:41 PM PDT by House Atreides
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It’s still too soon to know what will happen, as far as the timing of confirmation hearings, and an actual Senate vote.

Things could change, based on whether they vote before the election, or if it becomes a vote by the lame duck Senate, after the election.

Things could change too, if Biden wins the election, but we still have a lame duck Senate controlled by the GOP.

The key dates are, Election Day November 3rd, the newly elected Senators take office January 3rd.


15 posted on 09/18/2020 8:24:14 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: JoanSmith
Would absolutely love it if they picked a black conservative woman for war gaming.

Lets dispense with the delusion that there’s anyone President Trump could pick that would be acceptable by both his base and Democrats. There isn’t. Liberals will attack a female black nominee with as much vigor and vitriol as they attacked Kavanaugh and they won’t care how it makes them look.

Republicans need to grow the balls it takes to confirm the types of candidates that people who control both the White House and Senate would pick and stop trying to extend olive branches to people who hate them. Pick a judge based on his or her merit.

16 posted on 09/18/2020 8:25:47 PM PDT by Drew68
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Saw someone else post Mitch could recess the Senate and Trump could make a recess appointment.


17 posted on 09/18/2020 8:26:07 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Drew68
Any Republican Senator who stonewalls this will commit political suicide and they all know it.

True. This is what every true conservative has been salivating over for years.

18 posted on 09/18/2020 8:27:03 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: MountainWalker

Nominate Amy and hold the Republic in the balance !


19 posted on 09/18/2020 8:28:11 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Drew68
Pick a judge based on his or her merit.

Yep we are not Democrats. We need to pick the best person for the job, period

20 posted on 09/18/2020 8:28:47 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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