Posted on 06/14/2021 10:08:34 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
Democrats and progressives stepped up their calls for Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to step down Monday after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would not permit a vote on a potential Biden nominee if Republicans control the chamber in 2024.
“I don’t think either party, if it controlled [the Senate], if it were different from the president, would confirm a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of an election [year],” McConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
The Kentuckian then raised the stakes by refusing to commit to giving a Biden nominee a vote in 2023 if Republicans retake the Senate in next year’s midterm elections, telling Hewitt, “We’d have to wait and see what happens.”
McConnell’s comments led to outrage on social media, with Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY), tweeting: “When I became the first person in Congress to call for Justice Breyer to retire now, while President Biden can still appoint a successor, some people asked whether it was necessary. Yes. Yes, it is.”
“Certainly feels good to yell online about this, but the only audience that really matters is Stephen Breyer, [Sen. Joe Manchin], [Sen. Kyrsten Sinema], and a handful of other Senate Dems who are hiding behind them,” added former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, referring to two Democratic senators who have spoken out against eliminating the filibuster. “Anyone got a plan to persuade that crew?”
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Hang in there for one more year Breyer. You can do it.
Justice Breyer seems to be a stubborn old coot.
Rock steady, Your Honor. This too will pass gas.
Because the Federal courts are TOTALLY non-political.
Yeah, I agree. I don’t recall a single Justice — on either side — ever listening to this sort of call for strategic retirement and “taking on for the team.” They quit when they want to quit. Period. O’Connor quit for family reasons, and regretted it. Kennedy wanted out for a long time. He had done has dirty work as the Rosa Parks of gay marriage and was ready to move on. Most of them have monstrous egos. Being a SCOTUS Justice has a lot more cachet than being a retired SCOTUS Justice. The job pays reasonably well and involves no heavy lifting. As Rehnquist and RBG proved over the years, it’s also a job that’s possible to literally “phone in” even while gravely ill.
touché.
Why don’t the dems and the progs roll ALL their dice and call for Kagan and Sotomayor to step down, too?
Sotomayor is seriously diabetic. She could honestly drop dead one day, out of the blue.
I’m not sure that it is that stupid. I think McConnell might be baiting Breyer to quit so that Biden can pick some Black female judge (the current name I’ve heard is Judge Katanji Brown Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, who has been nominated to the DC Circuit). I imagine that Biden would like to pick Michelle Obama or Stacey Abrams (both graduated from law school and actually passed the bar examination somewhere), but those nominees would be utter disasters for the ‘Rats (which is why I hope Biden nominates either of them)
I sense that when this judge (whomever it is) comes up for a real confirmation hearing where she will get real questions from straight shooters like Mike Lee, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn and John Kennedy, she will be shown to be to be intellectually and morally inferior to Kamala Harris (if that is even possible). Even if the nominee squeaks through on a 51-50 vote, all the ‘Rats in the Senate will be besmirched (I’d probably be called a racist if I used the verb “tarred”) with this Che Guevara in a judicial robe.
Setting the stage. Republicans will control the Senate in a couple of months.
So you believe that by McConnell baiting Breyer into retiring Dems would embarrass themselves with some wacky nominee? The only problem with that is that the Dems wouldn't be embarrassed and 20 years from now that wacky nominee would still be sitting on the bench. McConnell didn't do anything other than offer Breyer another reason to retire.
Why is that stupid....it’s what he did before Obama last year
And thank god.....
It was good O’Connor retired when she did. It was reported that around 2013 that she had developed dementia. But who knows? If she had stayed on the SCOTUS, it might had kept her mind sharp!
After what happened in 2020, McConnell needs to give Republicans a reason to turn out their base and vote in the midterms.
Doing it isn't stupid. Announcing in advance that you are going to do it is. All he did was provide the Dems with a perfect sound bite to increase turnout in the next election.
“Because the Federal courts are TOTALLY non-political. “
Traitor Roberts agrees.
Sounds as if Bitch McConnell was subtly hinting to JoePedo that he needs to act fast to screw the Republicans...
Some Democrats continue to parade their impropriety and corruption.
What the hell does it matter? Trump’s appointees didn’t step up when it mattered after an election steal.
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