Posted on 01/26/2022 12:28:04 PM PST by Enlightened1
It would be another miracle.
Can you imagine that cackling during oral arguments?
Oh......how...reassuring........
Since when has appropriateness for the job mattered to the dems.?
“Harris is inappropriate for the role.”
While I agree with you, Biden’s singular qualification seems to be that the next justice be a “woman of color”.
Nope ... he’s not African black, but a dark Hispanic
She’s inappropriate for vice president, but that didn’t stop them, did it?
But has she raped anyone back in college? That's the dividing line.
If sh!tmuffin is stupid enough to take sh!tlery as his vp, then he deserves his upcoming scheduled suicide.
Heh, just think how low the Supreme Court’s already laughable reputation will sink when when the HO gets in there.
You are right, she is a heterosexual ...
There is an excellent summary of the complications in the trash sheet leftist rag Time Magazine, unfortunately.
I won’t post a link.
Brief quote here:
Why does this matter? If all 11 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee oppose Biden’s pick and all 11 Democrats back her, the nomination goes inert. (A pretty safe bet in a committee where at least half of the Republican members have White House ambitions of their own.) The nomination doesn’t die, but it does get parked until a lawmaker—historically, the Leader of the party—brings it to the floor for four hours of debate.
A majority of the Senate—51 votes, typically—can then put debate about the issue on the calendar for the next day. But that’s the last easy part. When the potential pick comes to the floor again, it’s not as a nomination. At that point, it’s a motion to discharge, a cloture motion that requires 60 votes. In other words, 10 Republicans would have to resurrect the nomination of someone already blocked in the Judiciary Committee.
Given this is an election year and Republicans have historically shown they’re not willing to give Democrats any wins on the Supreme Court in such a politically charged environment, there’s a good chance that Biden’s nominee spends her summer waiting for invites that never come from GOP lawmakers asking her in for typically cordial and informal coffees.
So, yes, Biden may get to nominate a pick for the Supreme Court. But there’s no guarantee that the full Senate will take it up. After all, McConnell successfully rejected Merrick Garland’s nomination in 2016 and waited for Donald Trump to win the White House to install a replacement for Antonin Scalia. McConnell narrowly carved out selected history and dug his heels in that he wouldn’t bring Garland up for a vote. There was simply nothing Democrats could do about it.
And given the rules of the Senate as they stand, a resolute Republican Party can pull a sequel to the Garland nomination. Sure, the Democrats could try to change the power-sharing agreement, but as the debate on voting rights showed us in recent weeks, one hold-out voice among Democrats in favor of the filibuster can tank the plan with little consequence. Which means all of the odds-making about who might get the call from White House Counsel in the coming days, who might get tapped to sherpa the nomination through the Senate or even what this means for the next term are all likely for naught. Republicans, should they want to, can sink this nominee. And if history is predictive, that’s exactly what they’ll do.
Philip Elliott, Jan 26, 2022.
It always has. Just maybe not the way you think. They don’t just nominate any lawyer. They nominate people with certain experience, and you can expect a lot of pushback if it’s not there.
In reality, there are almost no qualifications to be VP. You could be a rutabaga.
If sh!tmuffin nominates sh!tlery to be vp and she is confirmed by congress, and then if President Trump regains the presidency in the 2024 election, sh!tlery will no longer be in office once President Trump takes the oath of office on Jan 20, 2025. There will be no need to “nominate her replacement,” as she will once again be a private citizen and not be holding any office from which she can leave due to ill health.
Agree completely. I just don’t think we are dealing with chess players here. I’m not sure they actually care about the institution, or the Constitution, etc.
This article is VERY COOL!
Every major personnel move and appointment was gamed-out by the senior-level Democrat Party operatives before Bernie and Mayor Pete were forced out of the primaries. That was the price Joe paid to be called ‘President’.
I know he isnt dumb...but kamala can do the same thing since thomas already showed the way in the current era.
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