Posted on 11/14/2016 1:41:45 PM PST by bobk3
This shunning could entail anything lawful that denies the appointee’s legitimacy. Treating the appointee as persona non grata is one example. Justice Clarence Thomas has experienced a bit of that shunning among some who credit Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment. High regard is not an entitlement.
Neither is a pay raise. While the compensation of justices cannot be "diminished during their Continuance in Office," nothing prescribes increases. Future Congresses might even try to freeze the salary of the appointee who owes his or her seat to this ideological grab, although concern for judicial independence may caution against starting down the path of varying salaries by justice.
Most importantly, the appointee’s illegitimate vote can be shunned. Because the appointee’s presence on the Court will be illegitimate, so too will be any 5-to-4 decision with the appointee in the majority. While people must obviously comply with such decisions, the legal community need not internalize them as legitimate additions to the law. Instead, they should be regarded as merely provisional, lacking precedential force and subject to overruling without constraint. Commentators should carefully designate and quarantine them.
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Trump and his administration need to actively fight them.
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“Shunning” is fine, as long as he or she is confirmed...
The Left simply is not taking Trump’s victory all that well.
“Progressives” really do live in a fantasy world.
He sure writes and "thinks" like an angry, bitchy faggot.
When he appoints his fifth justice into the second term, the shunning can go the other way!
Change the Senate rules like Harry Reid did, get rid of 60 vote rule and ram these through just like the Democrats did.
After the mess they made of covering the election ...the Hill should be shunned.
Agreed, the battle is not over; anti-Constitutionalists will fight tooth and nail in the lowest, most underhanded ways they can find.
Translation: Our wet work people dedicated their lives to ensure there was an opening on the court for Obama or hillary to fill. It’s awful for the elected president to fill it with anyone who is not a confirmed leftist fanatic willing to ignore the constitution and fulfill our wishes.
As well as a little 3-D chess.
At base, leftists are rock stupid. They operate on emotion and give their sense of reason weeks off at a time.
Senator Jeff Merkley(OR) said Trump would get off on the right foot by letting Merrick Garland be appointed to SCOTUS.
I kid you not.
Trumps nominee better be JAMMED thru by the Turtle no matter what.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.
Who is this bozo?
When did the 60-vote rule come back?
The Establishment, MSM and Democrats should be mocked and ridiculed and, as evidence of their crimes is uncovered, prosecuted, without plea-bargaining, to the fullest extent of the law.
Leftists are proving to the world that they’re every bit as small minded and petulant as we always said they were.
Yep. As I’ve been saying on other threads, we’re in for 8 years of this B.S. Personally, I ain’t worried. The MSM has become largely irrelevant, and if Trump does as good a job as I believe he will, no one will pay attention to the Dems anyway. And with all the Dems senators up for reelection in 2018, I think we’re gonna be in excellent shape come the midterms.
Trump should pick the African-American on his list of 20 possibles.
Liberal heads will explode.
He can call it a ‘high tech lynching’ if they go after his guy.
Pick Cruz second and he can play the Latino card.
White libs melt when the race card is played on them. This is 3D chess.
Trump will win!
Obama is more special than George Washington?
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