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The rest of the title is said about blocking election-year SCOTUS nominees
1 posted on 02/23/2016 4:05:49 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Allahpundit again. Who is this guy? Why this moniker?


2 posted on 02/23/2016 4:09:24 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Kaslin

Schumer kept promising Boehner would pass the amnesty bill by the end of the month.


5 posted on 02/23/2016 4:12:20 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal (And Trump could win it all My rightful place from birth Dad ive let you down Dub ive made you hurt)
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To: Kaslin

There should be hearings held. Any candidate that will try the Hildabeast should be considered. Next year.


7 posted on 02/23/2016 4:16:35 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: Kaslin

Keeping ideological hacks off the bench is their job.


8 posted on 02/23/2016 4:16:44 PM PST by wny
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So what would be the actual effect of leaving Scalia’s seat open until next year?

Every decision that would have been a 5 to 4 win for the liberal wing of the Court will instead be a 5 to 3 win for the liberal wing of the Court. The only cases that will be affected are those that would have been a 5 to 4 win for the conservative wing of the Court. Those cases will now be deadlocked 4 to 4.

The effect of a deadlock is that court of appeals decision will stand. So the only cases that will actually be affected are those in which a 5 to 4 conservative majority would have overturned the court of appeals decision. No other cases will be affected one way or the other. Those few cases can always be reheard next term.

What this is really about is that liberals are giddy with excitement over the sudden unexpected opportunity to flip decisions that would have been 5 to 4 wins for the conservative wing into 5 to 4 wins for the liberal wing. Well there are still three 80 year old Justices left on the Court. So whether Scalia’s seat is filled this year or not, the next President is going to determine the direction of the Supreme Court for the next 30 years.

In the immortal words of Joe Biden, “once the political season is underway — and it is — action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. That is what is fair to the nominee and essential to the process.”


11 posted on 02/23/2016 4:21:49 PM PST by kennedy (No relation to those other Kennedys.)
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Look, the only “job” that Schumer is talking about is continuing his egomaniacal, leftist political and psychological blow job on the American people.

Schumer is a “power fanatic” so he has only one goal - to get as much power as possible while denying it to the American people.

In other words, he’s a dictator-in-training. Always was, always will be.

America be damned, he’s got a “job” to do on them.


12 posted on 02/23/2016 4:24:06 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin
it's spelled SCHWULER!!!

(Schwuler = Fag in German)

15 posted on 02/23/2016 4:30:19 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: Kaslin

How about trying to spin his own words, too?


18 posted on 02/23/2016 4:35:05 PM PST by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: Kaslin

Take the nomination, hang it up in committee for a while, hold debate.
Bork, Bork, Bork...
Vote it down.

Repeat as necessary.


19 posted on 02/23/2016 4:35:06 PM PST by Iron Munro (Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth -- Mike Tyson)
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To: Kaslin

Schmuckey doesn’t have to be credible.
His schtick is demagoguery and the Dems love that.


22 posted on 02/23/2016 5:17:22 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Kaslin

Slow Joe ... the village idiot that keeps on giving!


23 posted on 02/23/2016 5:37:51 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (The main Democratic presidential candidates .. two old communist revolutionaries pining for the 60s.)
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To: Kaslin

If Schumer’s words meant nothing then, they mean nothing now.


25 posted on 02/23/2016 8:00:07 PM PST by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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