Posted on 10/12/2020 10:18:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough asked Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday why the Democrats couldn’t complete the work of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and “add a couple of justices” to the Supreme Court of the United States.
“Why can’t Democrats Constitutionally finish what FDR started back over 80 years ago and add a couple of justices in response to Republican radicalism?” Scarborough asked Schumer on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
Roosevelt threatened to enlarge the Supreme Court when the body initially opposed his New Deal legislation.
“It’s Constitutional. And by [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell’s standard, you would be … in your right to do that, correct?” Scarborough asked. (RELATED: Democrats Threaten To Pack The Court If Republicans Nominate A Replacement For Ginsburg This Year)
Scarborough and Schumer were discussing the decision by President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate to move forward with the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat on the court following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Scarborough suggested that Republican Kentucky Sen. McConnell was being hypocritical in supporting Barrett’s nomination when he refused to consider former President Barack Obama’s last nominee, Merrick Garland. Scarborough said at the time that McConnell was wrong to block Garland’s confirmation.
Schumer agreed with Scarborough: “We would certainly be in the Constitutional right to do it,” while accusing Barrett of planning “to take away” Americans’ health care and to “repeal Roe V. Wade,” the landmark court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.
The Democratic New York senator suggested that 71% of Americans are opposed to that repeal while also suggesting that confirming Barrett “could turn the court into something that would get rid of all labor unions [and] make America a right-to-work state … ”
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Friday that he didn’t believe voters deserved to know what his position is on potentially packing the court.
Despite frequent queries, the former vice president has repeatedly refused to state his position, suggesting the issue of packing the court is a Republican distraction and that he doesn’t want to “play the president’s game.” (RELATED: Here Are 7 Times Biden And Harris Have Refused To Say Where They Stand On Court Packing)
Although Democratic Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono called court packing “long overdue court reform,” Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin has opposed the policy.
I have read that it tastes like ‘fish flavored Jello’.........
IDK. None of us would even try. It looks disgusting and it is stinky while being cooked.
And note, I am adventurous and would eat whale again in a heartbeat, if I could find it. Also, my personal soul food includes gefilte fish (with horseradish).
Lutefisk is just nasty. If you were starving, had ample cream sauce & pepper and shots of Aquavit, it could be done.
I think some restaurants in Alaska still serve whale steaks................
Tastes like prime beef tenderloin with a faint component of clean fish. Not available where I live and very expensive by mail order. Might as well just buy tenderloin, which ain’t cheap, either.
Mahi-mahi sashimi tastes even more like beef, with no fish element.
The Norwegians could have developed methods of outdoor freezing to preserve cod, instead of the lye method. But maybe it doesn’t get THAT reliably cold for long enough.
I think another Nordic country also has a *fermented* fish that has been buried for long enough to rot. So did the Inuit, but they had a natural deep freeze, so it must just be a cultural preference some places.
I have always found it amusing that every culture on earth, from savages in the Amazon jungles to the Inuit of Alaska and the Mongols of Asia and the Pygmies of Africa ALL have a way to make some form of alcohol...................
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