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To: Sons of Union Vets

Using all caps, bolded fonts does not change the simple fact that this it complete BS. Debunked. You can even debunk it yourself in less than 5 minutes.

I’ll give you a headstart:

Justice Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court on April 7, 2017 and he was sworn in on April 10, 2017. He participated in oral arguments on April 18, 2017 in the case of Ricky Henson, et al., petitioners v. Santander Consumer USA Inc. The case was decided on June 12, 2017 with Mr. Gorsuch writing the majority opinion.

So knock this off, it only takes a few minutes to discover a few simple facts like this.

The Supreme Court Docket for Arguments in October, 2018 can be found here:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_calendars/MonthlyArgumentCalOctober2018.pdf


54 posted on 09/22/2018 9:50:28 AM PDT by centurion316 (Back from exile from 4/2016 until 4/2018.)
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To: centurion316

Ordinarily, Tucker Carlson is pretty reliable. According to my understanding ( and I am cheerfully willing to stand corrected if I am mistaken), Justice Gorsuch was nominated and confirmed after - not before - the 2016 presidential election after Mitch McConnell refused to confirm Obama’s pick Merrick Garland.

In this case, it is my understanding that Justice Kennedy resigned his SCOTUS seat in order to give Donald Trump enough time to nominate another Supreme Court Justice and have him confirmed by the Senate. There was some whining from the Democrats about appointing a Supreme Court justice before midterms, but Mitch McConnell promptly responded to their whining by reminding them that midterm elections were not the same as presidential elections - presumably since the Senate can only advise and consent.

Now up until today I would have agreed with you, but would have still continued to wonder why the accuser, Ms. Ford’s lawyer was insisting on Thursday to conduct the hearing.

Then I saw the Tucker Carlson video which appeared to provide the answer. Moreover, he said that the aforementioned deadline for confirming a Supreme Court Justice was according to Senate rules which he said were complex.

Now if Tucker Carlson is just plain mistaken here, I would be very grateful if you would tell me what I am missing here.

BTW, I didn’t mean to offend with caps and bold fonts.


66 posted on 09/22/2018 10:35:37 AM PDT by Sons of Union Vets (Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory!)
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