Posted on 04/08/2017 5:43:23 AM PDT by rktman
This morning Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. For such a non-controversial figure, Gorsuch experienced the full might of the Democratic Party’s attack machine. Still sour at Senate Republicans blocking Merrick Garland, Obama’s first pick to fill the vacancy left by the late Antonin Scalia, through the Biden rule—the Left was determined to stop Gorsuch at all costs. Despite having broad support from across the spectrum in the legal scholar realm—Obama’s former solicitor general supported his nomination—and the highest rating from the American Bar Association, Democrats formed a united front to stop him. They had the votes to block Gorsuch through a procedural hurdle, denying Senate Republicans the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture and move to the final confirmation vote. As a result, Senate Republicans nuked the rules, allowing for Gorsuch to be confirmed by a simple majority. Not liking someone because a Republican president nominated him or her isn’t a good enough reason to block a judge. Democrats learned that the hard way.
Now, should a second vacancy occur, a) Republicans will not have as much trouble to confirm this person; and b) the composition of the Court could become more decidedly conservative. This is why it was probably best for the Democrats to keep their powder dry, but we’ve crossed that bridge.
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When there are too many decisions to be made, you delegate.
Now that was a dame.......
Moon landings, momentous advances in medicine, the personal computer and many many more incredible advances.
Our generation’s albatross is believing the RATmedia far too long. Even after the Kennedy assassination. It cannot be faulted for many of our problems.
There are implicit powers associated with the Specified powers in order to implement them. Alexander Hamilton’s essay on the Constitutionality lays out what is constitutional and what is not. Hamilton is the greatest reason the Constitution was written and ratified.
The proposal to limit the federal government to the specified powers was explicitly voted down at the Constitutional Convention.
No, there won’t. Don’t take this as an endorsement.
Frederico will be the next.
Suuure he was. He was a walking heart attack. Nothing to see here, Gridley.
The odds are heavily against murder.
That is both obvious and something Trump has practiced for decades. But make no mistake about it he follows his own ideas just as he did in his campaign.
The odds that President Trump would defeat hilLIARy were against him doing so.
YES 11 IS the correct number....and we COULD get it done imo....
Suuure he was. He was a walking heart attack. Nothing to see here, Gridley.
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But Scalia did not die of a heart attack. Ask the coroner.
What, you some type of hippy commie fag that grooved out on that protesting stuff?
Sounds like it. My rifle has those mean .30 cal flowers oozing out the end.
Weekend at Ginsburg’s
She wanted a female President to name her successor.
That’s reasonable & possible
I wouldn’t!
But that won’t stop the Dems and the media from making the attempt.
One word:Animatronics.
yes i am kidding.
Funny how many here still fervently wish to believe without question what Big Media tells us.
Have you ever told an untruth? Ever?
Then you are a liar. Lyin’ Reno The Liar.
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