Posted on 11/13/2019 9:29:18 PM PST by rdl6989
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Wednesday missed oral arguments due to a stomach bug.
Chief Justice John Roberts, speaking from the bench, said Ginsburg was “indisposed due to illness.” He said Ginsburg would participate in deciding the cases based on written briefs and oral argument recordings.
A court spokeswoman confirmed that Ginsburg was at home with a stomach bug.
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4chan look for “Ginsberg Death Train”.
Agreed, they will label Trump as being an impeached president with no authority to replace supreme court judges other presidential appointments and presidential business, like pardons, investigations into the deep state, foreign policy, executive orders.
or in other words, she and Hillary and Katie Hill emptied a several bottles of Wild Turkey last night for their pre-impeachment party.
She does not want to retire while Trump is in office. It’s about abortion. Hatred for Trump is about abortion. Rotten treatment of Kavanaugh is about abortion. Ugly biytches screaming at the moon is about abortion.
This love of abortion is a mental illness.
she’ll probably hang in there hoping a dem wins 2020. Hell, she may just die next Nov when Trump wins in a landslide.
they will not announce until Jan 2 2020... that way trump will have to wait til after election to nominate someone... the biden rule, tho it will mean nothing...
buwahahaha
I wonder what the Dems would do as concerns the impeachment farce if Ginsberg were to kick the bucket this week.
The Biden rule is nothing but an excuse. Nothing in the Constitution prevents a president from filling a Supreme Court seat in the last year of his term. McConnell blocked Garland because he could. No more and no less.
i know... but the press will help make it an issue... and trump will say, i can wait... he is that confident.
McConnell can still ignore the Biden rule and push it through, but then again its McConnell.
The Biden rule was made up out of whole cloth by Joe Biden when Bush senior was president. It is not part of the Senate rules, it is not supported by the Constitution, it's nothing but an excuse for not acting on an appointment. Absolutely nothing prevents a president from making a Supreme Court appointment in the last year of their term except for an intransigent Senate. McConnell blocked Garland because he could. He could approve a Trump appointment because he can. Simple as that.
So what? Since when has having their hypocrisy pointed out ever phased the Senate?
and trump will say, i can wait... he is that confident.
I am sure the Democrats felt that way about Garland.
No matter what the Democrat Media establishment says if RBG’s seat is vacated, the Turtle needs to ram a replacement through very quickly after President Trump appoints one.
We all know they will scream and cry and try literally anything to get it pushed back til after the election. It’s vital that that be denied.
i wish i could share in your confidence doodledawg... but the lack of convictions and perp walks makes me cynical.
To be clear, I’m not saying what will happen. I’m merely pointing out nothing prevents it from happening except charges of hypocrisy on the part of McConnell. And that’s never phased him or any other politician in Washington in the past so I remain hopeful.
Agreed, and McConnell is already on record saying he would proceed with a nomination next year, saying the "Biden" rule only applies to a president's second term or some such.
Which would be crap since Biden came up with his "rule" during Bush 41. Just go ahead and fill the seat and quit trying to find lame excuses to justify not confirming Garland.
His basis is that this practice, it’s not a rule, has happened in the last year of a term WHEN THE SENATE IS CONTROLLED by the other party than the president. His distinction is that there is no reason to expect that a Senate of the same party would exercise its discretion not to take up the nomination. Makes sense to me, and the rats could teach us volumes about obstructing judicial nominations of a president of the other party, just as they could teach us about ramming home your own president’s nominees, a la Reid’s nuclear option
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