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.
Tisk tisk. I hit a squishy nerve. Too bad.
She said Tonight, she wont vote to confirm a SCJ until after Jan 20.
Would McConnell want to hold a vote, if he didnt have the votes?
Ginzburgs death prevents Roberts from being a neegative swing vote
I can see both sides of this argument (push a nomination through, or wait until after the election). I think you have to strike while the iron is hot, and get the confirmation before Inauguration Day, because there’s a very real chance that Trump will not win. If the Dems were in the same position, they wouldn’t hesitate to get one of their own in. If we have Biden (Harris), I’m sure they’ll manage to find a 35-year old black Muslim tranny judge who they’ll push as being the greatest person who ever walked the face of the earth.
If Manchin had voted in favor of Kavanaugh, I might have hope he would cross the line again. He didn’t, so we have his answer on the next Trump nominee. He’s not to be counted on.
Garland is atrocious, and the Dems arent stupid enough to get played like that theyd confirm him. Either way, after the nakedly partisan decisions out of Pennsylvania and Michigan courts this week I dont see Trump winning, so we dont have time for these games just to prove a point. At the moment we have the president and the senate, and we have to use it for the potentially very brief amount of time we have left in control.
I haven’t been watching talking head news this evening, my guess this death of Ruth has been known to be coming very soon by all sides this last week or so. Everyone has been war gaming it.
Appointing a judge now actually DEFUSES the situation. Can’t get motivated to vote for the court pick if it is already filled.
NO! Her husband is CIA. Too swampy. ACP is a Mid Westerner. Graduate of Notre Dame & solid as a rock conservative with 5 biological children & 2 adopted children from Haiti.
That solidifies much of the Mid West for Trump.
The problem with the GOP is that they have constantly followed the advice of people fould mouthed babies like coaster123. Lets hope that the extreme nonsense that the leftist scum have been pulling has woke them up. The Supreme Court is likely to rule on Democrat scams that wouls steal the election. They are our firewall. If Trump wins but the Democrats take back the senate but we have a conservative majority in the Supreme Court that will be able to neutralize much of the damage.
From the list earlier this month: Justice Carlos Muñiz of the Florida Supreme Court, or Justice James Ho of the Fifth Circuit. After her performance at the RNC, my heart is with Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky. However hes too young and has no judicial experience
NO! Her husband is CIA. Too swampy.
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EX-CIA... and not swampy.
Exactly right!
Everyone who supports Trump and a conservative nominee will breath a sigh of relief. Your mistake is in agreeing with the the media and Democrats that this supposedly decisive 'gotcha' will have some effect with the general public. It won't, and sticking a knife in the Dems will generate even more enthusiasm among Republican supporters.
Harriet Miers? /jk
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