Posted on 09/18/2020 5:08:22 PM PDT by balch3
Alaska's @lisamurkowski said today she won't confirm a new SCOTUS justice until after the inauguration day. Fair is fair, she says. My colleague @kcgrove will have a story shortly.
We can lose Mittens, Collins and Murk and still come out ahead with a Pence tiebreaker.
Lindsey Graham said he would not support a vote in an election year...
He said that a few years ago...Brit on Fox News
Obviously she is incapable of being an impartial Senator, SUSPEND her Ass, Strip her from ALL Committee Assignments, Revoke her Floor Privileges,...
We need to focus on re-electing Trump. There will be no replacement this year, we won’t have the votes. The replacement will be decided by who wins the Presidency and Senate.
She rolled the dice and they kicked her in the pancreas.
Collins, Sasse, Ronney, and Lee will all follow
This creep, Collins and Romney need to go.
As a matter of fact, nearly every GOP senator except Blackburn, Cruz, McSally and Scott.
Perhaps we should sell Alaska back to the Rooskies.
There is no number cited in the constitution about what constitutes a Full Court!
The original court had only six members!
There has been as little as 5 and as many as 10!
Yes, but the country will not accept a ballot dispute resolution based on some lower appellate court if the Supreme Court ties. The country is owed a Supreme Court that can make a final decision. We are going into an unprecedented election where vote by mail is being implemented in an extraordinary manner. Democrats have already hired loads of lawyers in anticipation of lawsuits. Republicans in the senate owe the American people a mechanism for finality, not chaos.
Fair is fair means President Trump gets to select the next SCOTUS justice. Murkowski shouldn’t be allowed to break the rules and perversely call it fairness. What a sick woman.
What’d be great is if Stephen Breyer, at age 82, went room temp as well. That’d mKe things really interesting.
*make
Nah. It’s an election year for Linda, and she needs to act conservative.
Not filling that seat will result in a huge liberal turnout.
Yes. Those 53 Trump nominees confirmed to the courts of appeals become pretty important.
As far as the election shenanigans is concerned, all the turtle has to do is declare a recess..... Trump can then appoint a temporary replacement.... that takes care of election shenanigans, and the turtles hands are clean..
With Ginsburg’s seat vacant, that leaves:
- 4 “known conservative” votes
- 1 “swing vote” (Roberts)
- 3 leftist votes.
Roberts is likely to lean towards the Constitutional position, along with the other conservatives.
Now an 8-member Supreme Court has actually become MORE conservative than it was yesterday.
That’s what naysayers said four years ago about Garland.
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