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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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

Dear NY Times,

Robert Bork says hello.

Love,

Convenient Amnesia


41 posted on 12/25/2016 5:52:01 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: Trump20162020
Let's hope that Trump's nominee casts then deciding vote on a case that leads to bankruptcy for the Slimes!
42 posted on 12/25/2016 5:52:45 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Trump20162020
Imagine what the Crimes would be saying if it was a liberal seat being filled under a conservative president.

Merry Christmas, Irrelevant Times. And may this one be your last.

43 posted on 12/25/2016 5:53:06 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Trump20162020
One of the only times democrats are even a little bit happy
is when they have something to whine and snivel about.


44 posted on 12/25/2016 5:53:55 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: FlipWilson
Bork 'em is right.

I hope he sticks it to the left and nominates Ted Nugent.

45 posted on 12/25/2016 5:54:25 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Not a word about how the Democrat Senate help up lower court seat confirmations for capable judges nominated by George W. Bush . . .


46 posted on 12/25/2016 5:54:28 AM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Trump20162020

I refuse to click on a NY Slimes link and let them count my eyecalls. Worse that TASS or Pravda back in the day.


47 posted on 12/25/2016 5:55:17 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: freedumb2003

“It was stolen from Barack Obama........”

First of all, that “seat” was not stolen from odumbo because it was not HIS. What was stolen was far more important than ANY SC seat, odumbo damn near stole America from “We The People”......until trump saved us. Trump will enjoy placing people of “our” choosing.


48 posted on 12/25/2016 5:55:22 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Trump20162020

49 posted on 12/25/2016 5:55:30 AM PST by John 3_19-21 (Dingdong the witch is dead, The witch old witch, the wicked witch, Dingdong the wicked witch is dead)
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To: Trump20162020

They are upset that they won’t be getting yet another Satan loving, child rapist, communist piece of $hit like Ginsberg, Kagen, Bryer and Sotomayor.


50 posted on 12/25/2016 5:55:36 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Principled
Trumps nominees sail.

Most will. Some will have holds placed on them. All will be put through hearings designed to embarrass them and smear them. And I expect the Supreme Court nominee will be filibustered, at least for a while, in response for Merrick.

51 posted on 12/25/2016 5:55:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Trump20162020

Lying liars gotta lie.

Losing losers gotta lose.

Whining Whiners gotta Whine.

And Winning Winners gotta Win.

Do these pathetic lying, losing whiners even know how good they make winning feel when they write stuff like this? I mean, a NYT editorial?

I remember when my kids would tattle: “He won’t stop looking at me.” I remember it every time I read something like this.

I been smiling all morning after reading this excerpt (won’t click NYT). Thanks NYT for the MERRY Christmas.


52 posted on 12/25/2016 5:56:22 AM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Trump20162020

Bubbling over with Christmas spirit, aren’t they?


53 posted on 12/25/2016 5:56:41 AM PST by madprof98
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To: Trump20162020

You mean the seat the libs tried to steal by killing Scalia? It was Obamas last chance to pack the court, but no one, at least not a liberal, was scheduled to retire.

So, suddenly, a conservative justice drops dead, just in time for Obama to install one more lefty justice...but along comes Trump and foiled to plot.

At least we’re “stealing” threat by not confirming, and not murder.


54 posted on 12/25/2016 5:56:42 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Trump20162020

It was stolen from Barack Obama, a twice-elected president who fulfilled his constitutional duty
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How can a Constitutionally ineligible usurper fulfill any Constitutional duty?
He may have been elected twice, but he will never be a natural born citizen as long as his father was a foreign national as he claims.
If his father was a US citizen and he was born in Hawaii, he would be eligible, but he told us he was born a British subject because his father was a Kenyan.
He can’t be a British subject and a natural born citizen.


55 posted on 12/25/2016 5:56:59 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: Trump20162020

“Stollen” Supreme Court seat. Another Fake News nugget from the very same NYTimes that pushed fake news about the the Electoral College being established to appease the slave states.

The MSM *is* fake news.


56 posted on 12/25/2016 5:57:01 AM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: Trump20162020

Antonin should still be with us and there should be no seat to steal.


57 posted on 12/25/2016 5:57:15 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Trump20162020

Well, Merry Christmas to all of you smug deporables at the NYT. By the way, I trust that you collectively know that the once great paper has become a rag and soon will be irrelevant.
The more you whine and complain the faster you will disappear.


58 posted on 12/25/2016 5:58:13 AM PST by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: Trump20162020

Stolen? More like saved by the Voters.


59 posted on 12/25/2016 5:58:50 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Trump20162020
Is there a 12 step program for Schadenfreude? The tears of the New York Times are sweet. The NYT have crumbled. They have given up even the pretense of self respect. They are our bitches.

Or as a once famous man once said, "Elections have consequences."

... and to make it even sweeter, our modern day Maronilla and Portia in one, The Notorious RBG, has named President Trump as the heir to her political estate.

60 posted on 12/25/2016 5:59:09 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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