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The Stolen Supreme Court Seat
The New York Times ^ | December 24, 2016 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 12/25/2016 5:37:35 AM PST by Trump20162020

Soon after his inauguration next month, President-elect Donald Trump will nominate someone to the Supreme Court, which has been hamstrung by a vacancy since the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February. There will be public debates about the nominee’s credentials, past record, judicial philosophy and temperament. There will be Senate hearings and a vote.

No matter how it plays out, Americans must remember one thing above all: The person who gets confirmed will sit in a stolen seat.

It was stolen from Barack Obama, a twice-elected president who fulfilled his constitutional duty more than nine months ago by nominating Merrick Garland, a highly qualified and widely respected federal appellate judge.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: bhoscotus; donaldtrump; fakenews; garland; gop; mcconnell; merrickgarland; mitchmcconnell; newyorktimes; nyslimes; obama; scotus; senate; supremecourt; trump; trumpscotus; trumpstillwinning; trumpwinsagain
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To: Trump20162020

Because Harry Reid was so above politics and a such a strict observer of tradition, protocol and decorum.


101 posted on 12/25/2016 6:13:31 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Trump20162020

In other words, using democrat Biden’s rule against democrats if unfair!


102 posted on 12/25/2016 6:13:43 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: FrankR

Exactly what I was thinking. This is another instance where the Dems. thought they had their ongoing power assured and God stepped in and took it away from them.


103 posted on 12/25/2016 6:14:23 AM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Trump20162020

Prep-H for the butt hurt?

The rats scream obstructionism when votes go against them.

Fact is their version of bipartisan or reaching across the aisle is do it my way.

KYPD


104 posted on 12/25/2016 6:15:12 AM PST by petro45acp (" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
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To: Trump20162020

Merry Christmas to our country.

May the snowflakes melt on this joyous Christmas Day.


105 posted on 12/25/2016 6:15:26 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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To: Alberta's Child

Maybe I overlooked this during the presidential campaign, but I don’t ever remember the Clinton campaign ever making a big deal about this stalled Supreme Court nomination — or about Supreme Court nominations in general. Trump sure did, but I don’t recall Clinton doing the same thing.

She didn't. All she ran on was she had a vagina, and Trump would grab it. That, and she didn't want to scare off Rino's from voting for her.

106 posted on 12/25/2016 6:18:28 AM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: LouisianaJoanof Arc

BEST. ELECTION. EVER.


107 posted on 12/25/2016 6:20:59 AM PST by perez24
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To: Trump20162020

“it was stolen” from Scalia


108 posted on 12/25/2016 6:21:23 AM PST by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Trump20162020

Nonsense!


109 posted on 12/25/2016 6:21:23 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #MyPresident #MAGA)
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To: Trump20162020

If the facts were reversed, you can be sure they would be ramming through another lesbian.


110 posted on 12/25/2016 6:21:32 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: SMGFan

How many centuries has Joseph Biden been in elected office?


111 posted on 12/25/2016 6:21:52 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Trump20162020

FUNYT, and the horse you rode in on.


112 posted on 12/25/2016 6:21:53 AM PST by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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To: Trump20162020

The butthurt commies are livid.Poor babies.


113 posted on 12/25/2016 6:22:00 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: phoneman08
All she ran on was she had a vagina, and Trump would grab it.

Trump would not touch that with a ten foot pole.

Or a ten foot Romanian either.

114 posted on 12/25/2016 6:22:29 AM PST by exit82 (Making America Great Again begins with........me.)
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To: ryderann

Satan and george soros but I repeat myself.


115 posted on 12/25/2016 6:23:58 AM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Trump20162020
NYT, if you and other libs hadn't invested the SCOTUS with plenipotentiary power to rule on everything from when human life begins to what the word "marriage" means to what a person can do with food he grows on his own land, this wouldn't be such a problem for you. But you got tired of trying to ram your garbage through the legislative process and have made the courts into dictatorial oligarchies.

That's not how this country is meant to work. That's why we have concepts like "popular rule" and "voting" and "legislatures". This country wasn't founded so that we could hand over absolute power over the most fundamental issues to nine un-elected lawyers!

116 posted on 12/25/2016 6:24:43 AM PST by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)
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To: KavMan
The American People gave Republicans the Majority in the Senate because of Obama's overreach!

So right!

In a bass-ackwards way the democrats and other libtards did America a great service by electing Obama instead of a slightly less radical president.

It has been a painful time for true patriots but in the end , Barack Obama, their chosen Prophet proved to be their undoing.

Like the frog in the pot of water slowly heating to the boiling point, Americans have put up with a series of administrations that have been destroying the nation a little at a time.

That would have continued under a less radical (or less impatient) democrat or another RINO.

But Obama stoked the fires and tried to throw the entire country into already boiling water RIGHT NOW!

And that woke up enough people to change the course of history.


117 posted on 12/25/2016 6:25:27 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Trump20162020

Wonder how fast the rentals are going on those eight floors the Times had to vacate due to their declining news business?


118 posted on 12/25/2016 6:25:29 AM PST by Will88
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To: Neoliberalnot

Retaken is the key word. The seat was held by a conservative and it will be held by a conservative again (we hope).


119 posted on 12/25/2016 6:25:57 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Ouderkirk
These people are INSANE !!!

Not to mention "stupid". The implications of Hillary's PC but most incompetently run campaign (since Mitt Romney's) are slowly sinking in.

120 posted on 12/25/2016 6:26:21 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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