Posted on 09/24/2020 5:14:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Despite pundits’ reactions to the contrary, the new Supreme Court vacancy will improve Republican odds keeping the Senate and the presidency. The Democrats are showing voters, like never before, what is at stake in this election.
Conservatives will be driven to vote for Trump if they fear giving Joe Biden the chance to appoint Ginsburg’s successor. And if Trump successfully appoints her replacement before the election, that specific reason for voting will does indeed vanish.
But now, Democrats have made a new threat that is sure to get Republicans to the polls. Some are openly pledging that, if the vacancy is filled, they will end the filibuster and pack the nation's federal courts. Not only would this undo the Supreme Court Trump’s appointment to the court, but it will usher in other radical changes.
Biden, Kamala Harris, and Senate Democrats had already been promising to make fundamental changes that will keep Democrats in power forever. But each time that Democrats double down on their commitment to abolish the filibuster, they increase the chances that Trump will win.
Filibusters allow a lone senator to hold the floor for as long as he wants, thereby preventing legislation from being passed. A vote to end a filibuster requires 60 or more votes.
No party has 60 seats in the Senate, so legislation requires some bipartisan support. Democrat Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer once called the Senate “the cooling saucer for our politics… that can show the nation bipartisanship, compromise, and progress.”
If Democrats eliminate the filibuster, simple party-line majorities will be able to pass bills. And if the same party controls both the House and Senate, legislation will be able to zip right through Congress.
If Biden wins, there’s a very good chance that he will pull the Senate with him. That’s especially true because in the event of a 50-50 Senate tie, as betting markets now indicate to be the most likely outcome, the vice president will have the tie-breaking vote.
The changes that Democrats would bring could produce a very different country. Let’s just look at their top priorities.
Biden promises that on his first day in office, he will present legislation that would give citizenship to all of the estimated over 22 million undocumented immigrants in the country. The promises of free health insurance and citizenship, not to mention lack of border enforcement, would likely encourage even more illegal immigration into the country.
The Democratic Party Platform promises to “stand united against” state photo I.D. requirements for voting and clean up registration rolls. They also propose to make the United States the only country in the world to mandate mail-in balloting. Democrats have also thrown their support behind “ballot harvesting,” which reduces the security of ballots by entrusting their delivery to partisan campaign employees.
Democrats promise statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, thereby changing the Senate’s makeup by adding four reliably Democratic seats. They could also pass campaign finance laws that make fundraising extremely difficult for challengers. They could even impose a new “fairness doctrine” that would eliminate conservative talk radio.
President Trump’s 53 federal circuit court confirmations have only just brought the courts into rough balance, with Democratic appointees still controlling circuit courts for 24 states, plus the powerful D.C. circuit court. Democrats could quickly undo this by passing legislation that expands the number of seats on the courts, ensuring massive judicial majorities on every circuit.
Those judicial majorities would ensure that all of the Democrats’ new laws pass constitutional muster. It would also let Democrats control congressional redistricting, to increase their stranglehold on state legislatures and the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Democrats’ platform this year includes gun bans and other firearms regulations such as licensing and registration. This would quickly pass. Free speech would no longer be free, as “hateful” speech would be criminalized.
The Biden administration would also establish a national commission to recommend what reparations be given to blacks for enduring slavery. And, of course, they will provide federal funding for abortions.
Biden has promised teachers’ unions to end competition from charter schools and voucher programs such as the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program.
The protestors outside Senators’ houses threatening to stab senators and the other threats of violence will make it clear which one is on the side of violence and which one on the side of law and order.
By bringing the issue of court packing to the fore, the Supreme Court vacancy is alerting voters to the banana republic craziness that will ensue in the event of Democrats sweeping the election. Biden and the Democrats are making it clear that, if they win, the country will become unrecognizable
The voting public is becoming woke to the ways of the democrats.
For freedom loving Americans we abide by and cherish The Constitution. To the communist supporting Democrats it’s The CONstitution, and they ignore it and treat it like toilet paper. The Democrats want a totalitarian state where the federal government is master and ruler over the American people. It should be crystal clear to everyone now.
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The Republicans should be running campaign ads quoting the extreme threats Democrats are making.
All the talk about Biden even having a chance to win in November will evaporate when he falls flat in the first debate.
Trump has a way of flustering his opponents into unbridled hostility.
Getting Slow Joe to lose it will be childsplay.
Yet CBS This Morning is lying (again) saying Trump will not leave office. It’s odd that so called journalists have no listening or reading comprehension. I watched the WH presser last night, h said nothing even close to what these Leftist lying bastards are saying.
Do the RATs know that that door swings both ways? I want Trump to announce on Saturday that he’s nominating THREE judges for confirmation. See heads explode!
Republicans should be ending the filibuster and packing the Court.
The Republicans should be running campaign ads quoting the extreme threats Democrats are making.
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So true. Time to do a simple here’s what they will bring as evidenced by their own words
What’s their calculation? That they need to offer it as hope so their side will still get out to vote?
This is the rather lame thinking of someone from inside the beltway. Specific reasons, however so little or large, are overwhelmed by 50+ years of leftist ruining American. We can't distill elections to one event or lack there of. The specific reason cited by Lott will reoccur. Too many so-called conservatives lack expectations for on-going achievement. They lack the testicular fortitude to win, claim their spoils and continue to win again.
I think we SHOULD get rid of the filibuster - and replace it with a requirement for a 60% supermajority to pass ALL legislation in the Senate.
Yeah, nothing would get out of the Senate. Is that really a bad thing?
Appointments would still only require a majority.
I thought the filibuster was already a “dead letter” rule in the US Senate. Expanding the Supreme Court to 13, or 15, or whatever, only further dilutes the value of a minority dissent (which may have been the overall intent).
Once the dust has settled on this election, and in the event the Senate Republicans retain their majority and Donald Trump is retained as President, then the expansion of the Supreme Court may be offered magnanimously for the consideration of the Democrat minority.
In those circumstances they would vote to reject it unanimously.
Only if commercials are made and trump discusses it every chance he gets.
Lol. Cute. I Would love it. Would be illegal as heck. Now that would definitely be impeachable legitimately.
“that would definitely be impeachable”
Yeah. He shouldn’t do it seriously — just another trolling tool to aggravate the RATs. He’s good at that.
Like saying he needs an extra four years to make up for not being able to do his job the first four.
Dammit, get it right. Oh, and my guess is at least 30,000,000.
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