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1 posted on 02/13/2016 7:57:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Constitutional crisis?

What are they smoking over at Slate?


2 posted on 02/13/2016 7:58:42 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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We have been in a constitutional crisis for a long time - it’s just that a lot of people haven’t realized it yet.


3 posted on 02/13/2016 7:58:51 PM PST by Jim W N
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Where’s the Constitutional Crisis? The Senate can delay as long as they want. If they gave in, they’d lose the Senate in the fall


4 posted on 02/13/2016 8:00:52 PM PST by 11th_VA (It's all gonna change once Trump's president)
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No. We have the congress and Senate. FUBO.


5 posted on 02/13/2016 8:01:41 PM PST by soycd
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; BenLurkin; Jim 0216

Nah, Obama will almost certainly nominate someone as is his right. And the Senate will almost certain ignore it as is their right.

And Scotus will have some 4:4 votes that confirm the lower courts rulings until such time as the position gets filled. I’d actually expect SCOTUS will delay hearing the more controversial cases.


6 posted on 02/13/2016 8:02:59 PM PST by DannyTN
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Of course, if the GOP loses the Senate, the Rats could probably conviegn before Obama leaves office. So I can tell you now, at this very moment, the DNC is doubling the dollars to go after weak GOP Senators


7 posted on 02/13/2016 8:03:42 PM PST by 11th_VA (It's all gonna change once Trump's president)
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Withholding consent on whatever NAZI turd Obama nominates would create a “constitutional crisis”? Where is it written we have to eat **** and like it?


8 posted on 02/13/2016 8:03:48 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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13 posted on 02/13/2016 8:05:57 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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Obama’s executive orders should have resulted in a Constitutional crisis, but the GOP is not an opposition party.


15 posted on 02/13/2016 8:07:12 PM PST by kabar
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The more I think about the alledged facts of this event, the more I smell corruption and criminality. I have a strong feeling that there IS foul play involved. Look at who is investigating this? The Feds. Is there any chance that the truth will get out without independence in this fact finding?

Vince Foster, again.


17 posted on 02/13/2016 8:08:23 PM PST by fwdude
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A: No. SCOTUS originally had 6 members. 8 is enough.


20 posted on 02/13/2016 8:10:21 PM PST by Cboldt
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I’m thinking that it is going to be more like a Civil War. The commies want to add another freak to their freak show.


24 posted on 02/13/2016 8:13:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (02-13-2016. America's Blackest Day.)
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Leave it to leftists to call the Senate’s right to advice and consent in the nomination process as a “constitutional crisis.”


26 posted on 02/13/2016 8:15:47 PM PST by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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Being down one Justice will not through the nation into the pits of hell. Jeez Louise—don’t the teach anything anymore? In case of an equal split it goes to whatever the last lower court ruled.


27 posted on 02/13/2016 8:17:13 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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W was not a lame duck when he appointed Roberts. Apples and oranges.


28 posted on 02/13/2016 8:20:34 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. - Sam Adams)
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This has been an issue before. The Senate doesn’t usually accept lame duck nominees. Nothing wrong with it at all.


30 posted on 02/13/2016 8:26:20 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("Death be not proud, one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more.."- J.Donne)
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Where can I place a bet that Obama gets a nominee confirmed by the Senate well before even November? Probably by summer.


31 posted on 02/13/2016 8:27:47 PM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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"What is less than zero? The chances of Obama successfully appointing a Supreme Court Justice to replace Scalia?"

If that is true, why'd the Repubs give Obama EVERYTHING and MORE that he wanted to spend and every program he wanted to fund until the end of the fiscal year in which he leaves office?

This is bravado. Or just bs. WHEN have the Repubs done ANYTHING that would indicate they will NOT confirm whoever Obama puts up there?

34 posted on 02/13/2016 8:29:47 PM PST by gg188 (Ted Cruz, R - Goldman Sachs)
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Perhaps. But it is more likely to lead to Civil War, IMO.


38 posted on 02/13/2016 8:35:55 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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You know the Supreme Court is a fraud when people have to worry about which party gets to nominate the next justice. It’s time to shut that sewer down.


42 posted on 02/13/2016 8:54:21 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (02-13-2016. America's Blackest Day.)
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