Boo hoo. I'm so sorry that you all made things so bad that a couple GOP nominees decided to play Rollerball to get on the court.
Posted on 06/27/2022 3:46:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
No sooner had the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs opinion then West Virginia’s sometimes-rational-Democrat senator Joe Manchin and senior Maine-Squish-Republican, senator Susan Collins, came out expressing their combined horror and indignation over the decision. They both went to say they were aghast that both Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch had apparently misrepresented to them, both in private meetings and during their hearings, that they would respect established precedent. The senators felt “betrayed” by the pair. Manchin was quoted as saying, “I trusted Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh when they testified under oath that they also believed Roe v. Wade was settled legal precedent and I am alarmed they chose to reject the stability the ruling has provided for two generations of Americans.” Collins in her statement said, “This decision is inconsistent with what Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh said in their testimony and their meetings with me, where they both were insistent on the importance of supporting long-standing precedents that the country has relied upon.” What each of these senator’s statement reveals, without saying it out loud, was they thought they had a deal. What sort of deal? If you promise not to touch Roe, I will vote for your nomination. In short, the classic quid pro quo. By their comments it was obvious that both senators felt they had been “double-crossed” and they were none too happy about it.
Until Senator Ted Kennedy and his merry band of Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, which included the current occupant of the White House, decided, beginning with Robert Bork, then continuing with Clarence Thomas and most recently Brett Kavanaugh, that it was acceptable to try and totally destroy a nominee to prevent the confirmation, the hearings were a fairly humdrum affair.
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SO typical of the liberal politician to only choose a supreme court justice based on the expectation they’ll be staying on the plantation and not for the ability to actually follow the Constitution by reading it and DOING WHAT IT SAYS! Too bad politicians aren’t being impeached for the daily lies and misdirected they engage in every stinkin’ day. But then Washington DC would be a ghost town.
It amazes me how unpopular populism is in the US of A.
There is way more support for this decision than there is for illegal immigration, but you wouldn’t know it to look at our leadership.
That 70s SCOTUS was positively demonic. Demonic.
Snake Manchin would join the GOP under 1 condition: if it were the only way he could guarantee his re-election. Like demonkrap Romney and Collins, the demonkraps would be able to depend on the Snake as a Republicant, to deliver for them on the big issues, even if he was a RINO.
Sure you were. Go away.
Anyone with a brain cell knows you knew what you heard was just what had to be said in the sick process arranged by Democrats.
Stop whining.
Of course. ... it depends on how the left defines the “populism”.
Our “leadership” is totally disconnected from the citizens because their re-elections are all but guaranteed.
It’s funny how they were demanding Trump not ask about Roe v Wade (so much do that Gorsuch said he would have walked out of the meeting) but apparently Senators were doing just that.
Perhaps it was the fact that abortions reached an all time record last year that swayed them back to this decision?
Ask any hoople voicing a similar point: was Dred scot properly decided and should it still be the law of the land??
I can see how that nut bag Collins is upset but I don’t get manchins position.
Let me get this straight. Susan Collins thinks she was misled?
She should recognize it if it was true (it isn’t) since she pledged in 1995 that she would only serve two terms. Now 25 years later she has evolved to forget about her pledge.
Gwjack
These politicians who claim to care so much about this have had plenty of opportunities over the last 50 years to codify it into law. But then it would no longer be an issue to campaign and raise money on. But with this decision, they can now play with people’s emotions for the next 50 years. And that’s what they truly care about.
The real robbery took place in the early morning hours of 4 November, 2020.
These two shitheads don’t seem to be at all concerned with that.
Manchin and Collins knew exactly what they were doing on these nominations. Then as now, they are simply trying to have it both ways.
Oh PUHLEESE. Here is biden saying he does NOT think R v W was a constitutional right for women AND the other is him saying that marriage should be between 1 man and 1 woman. Everybody shades the truth. Now biden is ALL upset about the R v W decision. Which is the lie and which is the truth?
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-abortion-rights-video-clip-roe-v-wade-2006-interview-1719106
Dems lie every time they open their mouth. Jan 6 political prisoners are STILL in jail and Maxine Watters and AOC and their troops are not.
Those protesting at private homes of the judges, a felony, are still not in jail.
Also, I want to know when Colbert and his crew of miscreants is going to jail for the INSURRECTION of June 16th. Justice for all right? Actually it is JUSTICE FOR REPUBS ONLY. After all. THEY VIOLENTLY invaded the capital and almost DESTROYED our democracy. Can you imagine the FEAR and TERROR of the people inside who were subjected to the horror of the day? And Colbert PLANNED this. A PRE-PLANNED INSURRECTION.
Boo hoo. I'm so sorry that you all made things so bad that a couple GOP nominees decided to play Rollerball to get on the court.
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https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4841176/user-clip-susan-collins-term-limits
Susan Collins lied to get her job - and it’s on video
“Manchin and senior Maine-Squish-Republican, senator Susan Collins ... both went to say they were aghast that both Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch had apparently misrepresented to them, both in private meetings and during their hearings, that they would respect established precedent.”
And you two knuckleheads have no problem with Sotomayor, Kagan, and Breyer ignoring precedent? And you’re complaining about Kavanaugh and Gorsuch after voting to confirm a radical, racist, commie-type like Ketanji Brown Jackson?
settled precedent much like settled science doesn’t exist.
It’s simply a lame attempt by the left to stop debate when they are ahead.
Manchin and Collins are dinosaurs. We need term limits.
Didn’t these people take an oath to defend our Constitution ??
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