I can think of another reason why the Rats want to stall on everything ... especially anything pertaining to Justice and the Supreme Court.
Posted on 04/06/2017 8:17:27 AM PDT by richardb72
Some ask why Democrats are filibustering Judge Gorsuch, who has received accolades from even some of the most partisan, liberal lawyers. But a clash is inevitable — if not over this Supreme Court nominee, then surely over the next. Democrats are about to launch the first, partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee, forcing an end to Senate rules that have helped foster centuries of bipartisanship.
But while everyone is discussing the partisanship over Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation, the real question is being ignored: what has caused this increased rancor?
There is a lot at stake. In fact, there is more at stake than ever before.
The Supreme Court has recently considered all kinds of questions that never would have come up before about half a century ago. Can proving discrimination against a few female, Walmart employees serve as proof that the company discriminated against 1.3 million female employees? Does the Federal government have the power to determine who is a religious minister? Are residents undergoing training at a hospital to be considered students or employees? Is carbon dioxide, part of the very air that we breathe out, a pollutant that the EPA can regulate? Does the Constitution forbid prayer at school football games and graduation ceremonies?
When more is at stake, people fight harder to win. That general rule explains a lot, from how competitively people play sports to how hard they fight to win business contracts and elections. Two baseball teams playing in the seventh game of the World Series are going to play harder than two teams competing in August with no chance of making the playoffs. It explains why campaign spending has gone up at the size of government has increased. . . .
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Can proving discrimination against a few female, Walmart employees serve as proof that the company discriminated against 1.3 million female employees? Does the Federal government have the power to determine who is a religious minister? Are residents undergoing training at a hospital to be considered students or employees? Is carbon dioxide, part of the very air that we breathe out, a pollutant that the EPA can regulate? Does the Constitution forbid prayer at school football games and graduation ceremonies?
And it does have the occasional hot skirmish, though they’ve been reduced by the elimination of Obama.
Wrong, the real reason is as long as the SC is 4-4 then the 9th circus is the de facto SC and the Rats will run everything through there.
The real issue at stake is the rule of law. The liberals believe in a “living” constitution. Conservatives believe in an “originalist” interpretation. If you believe in a living document, then you really care who gets to interpret what it means now. Liberals tend to agree with Stalin, its not how many votes that matter, but who gets to count them. Hence Ted Kennedy launching the first salvo against Robert Bork...
Democrats will be whining & crying like there's no tomorrow & they won't be able to STOP a Conservative Judge replacing her! LOL
I also think it gives them cover for what is about to take place. I think two retirements and a death will mean 3 more in the next couple of years.
I can think of another reason why the Rats want to stall on everything ... especially anything pertaining to Justice and the Supreme Court.
Bingo
prayers up
Imo, it boils down to the destructionists believing that once a rule is written by man it is forever unchanging until they, themselves, want it changed.
But that is not the case.
Any rule written by man can be unwritten by man. The only people that would be kept out of the uprising if the destructionists fully owned the SCOTUS and every other judge bench in the country are those who wouldn’t fight back anyway under any conditions.
The courts are the one thing the progressives must keep. When they lose elections they sue until they find a judge to change the outcomes. When they win, they have a court cement their unconstitutional power grabs. When they can’t pass a law they find a judge to declare laws. They are losing their power, they hate Trump. They hate the people that voted for Trump and want to punish them. The courts are a powerful tool in their arsenal.
If the Supreme Court becomes mostly Conservatives the 9th circuit will rule the Supreme Court unconstitutional.
LOL. I’m hoping one of the things that gets accomplished before 2018 is breaking up the 9th Circus
The filibuster of judges has not given us “centuries of bipartisanship” — because until the hyperpartisan democrats came along, nobody ever thought to filibuster a qualified nominee.
It is pretty much a given now that republicans are highly unlikely to ever nominate someone who will wildly legislate, and democrats will. And since we already know that democrats will get rid of the filibuster the first time it is used to stop one of their supreme court nominees, you might as well just get rid of it now.
Never underestimate the ability of a liberal to deny reality and attempt to change the rules to do so.
Not sure if i agree with you but it’s a mighty fine and possible explanation for their tactics.
If Trump appoints 3 or more conservatives to the bench then if the dems ever get into power again (God forbid) look for mysterious deaths of conservative justices and also expect the court to be expanded from 9 to at least 13 justices.
This is what we have come to :-/
And that is why Donald J. Trump is President of the United States and Hillary Clinton is not.
Can’t see how whether resident doctors are employees is one of the critical issues of the day. Or why it got on this guy’s list.
They are angry because they are out of power. They thought that all the media lying would guarantee hillary the presidency, but they were wrong.
May all dems go to hell.
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