I think that a “Conservative” court will direct their energies more on “Religious Liberties” types of cases that they will in turning over Roe v Wade.
What will also be even more interesting to watch is how they will Vote on cases in which States attempt to restrict abortion access. (Which has been the strategy lately, rather than taking on Roe v. Wade head-on).
After burning and gobsmacking the GOP for not waiting, voting her in is the right thing afterall.
Yes l believe l understood what you wrote, before making my post.
Even though I do think that the GOP are a bunch of hypocrites; I didn’t make a comment one way or the other about this latest example.
So try again.
Agree. I think personally that the Republicans are absolutely the worse off in reputation, so I don’t think the Democrats are hurting if they fight this. In fact it might help them.
On the other hand I know two things:
I have no idea how other people view this and
the Democrats can shoot themselves in the foot better than almost any group I know. Not that I’m complaining, since I don’t particularly like them lol.
I mean… yes they SHOULD. But they won’t. Their anger won’t let them. Although it would be an absolutely beautiful stroke to kill the GoPs energy.
I am fine with this strategy. I think Roe is an abysmal piece of jurisprudence, and it should always have been left to the states.
Even if Roe, by some miracle, was overturned, the day to day effect in blue and purple states will be minimal, while the red states can do what they like. Imagine! The parties might have to win the argument at the ballot box! The mind boggles.
Agree!
This is the part that matters:
He did this:
“In 2013, Reid a historic move that changed a long-standing Senate rule, dropping the number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster from 60 to a simple majority for executive appointments and most judicial nominations — a decision he justified because of trouble getting through court confirmations in the latter half of the Obama Administration.”
Therefore this:
“Reid’s “nuclear option” did not extend to Supreme Court nominees at the time, though McConnell used the precedent of Reid’s decision to lower the vote threshold for the confirmations of Justice Neil Gorsuch last year.”
If Reid did not invoke the nuclear option, it would not have been possible to over come the 60 vote majority for SCOTUS.
This is what your worried about? Have you not noticed that any hint of this level headedness left the building 3.5 years ago? It’s been nothing but emotional projectile vomiting for a while now.
And why is it the GOP that has to be the grown up in the room? The dems could help a little, like calling for respecting the law and not violence instead. Violence begets violence. And your worried about congeniality?
She’s already a federal judge, so she’s already been vetted. I do not foresee hearings being conducted this time. After Kavanaugh, why would they?
We know there wouldn’t be an good faith in the room. Follow the law and nothing more or less, I say.
Well, the court cannot pick the cases that come up. They can pick which cases they will hear and which get sent back down once it gets to their level, but there is no ‘strategy’ per se, on what comes up. However, don’t fool yourself. With a conservative majority for the first time in decades, if a ‘Roe v. Wade’ type case comes up and it meets the criteria for a SCOTUS hearing, they will absolutely topple it.
Then another woman’s dying wish will finally be respected. Norma McCorvey’s (Jane Roe herself) wish was to go back and over turn her own verdict. She spent the last half of her life fighting against the decision.
As an aside, she was the ‘king of the mountain’ when it came to the abortion debate and the SCOTUS decision. This single most important voice on abortion. When she spoke, the room got quiet and people listened.
Until she changed her mind. I still don’t know why the pro-life movement didn’t put her front and center as the face of the movement. The once ‘abortion queen’ had changed sides, that wasn’t a little thing, that was a seismic event and it went virtually unnoticed. Jane Roe, of ‘Roe v. Wade’ fame switched to pro-life. Perhaps the efforts to silence her worked, because not many paid attention. All the sudden, she wasn’t that important. Except she was and she exposed the movement at it’s core.
It’s one thing to be a justice it’s another to be a case, like RGB and Norma McCorvey. Will she(RGB) be remembered? Probably, but not near as well al Jane Roe.
Nothing hypocritical about it.
What the hell are you smoking? ONLY 3.5 years ago? It’s been bad for a much longer while. Much much longer. And the GoP has plenty of blood in their own hands for this downturn.
Because doing the right fucking thing doesn’t require you to wait for the other party to do the right fucking thing. You don’t get a free pass to behave badly just because some other dumbasses did it first.
Yes, the Dems could help. They SHOULD help. They probably won’t help. But that’s not an excuse for not doing the right thing.
The only way to restore the ability to be bipartisan, to be civil, and to move the country away from this poisonous polarization is to start doing it yourself.
Or you can take the Christian angle:
“How many times must I forgive my brother? 70 x 7 times…”
“If you are at the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, LEAVE YOUR GIFT THERE and go and be reconciled to your brother.” In other words, don’t perform the most important religious duties you have as a religious Hebrew if you know of something wrong, be reconciled FIRST and then go do your duty.
In still other words, it doesn’t matter whether you were the offended party, or the offending party. You have the responsibility to make the first move.
lolz.
Far from it, while the optics would be good, the better result is rescuing the process from a dishonorable and corrupt GOP and restoring regular order to the nomination process.
Oh yeah, the GOP isn’t innocent as they sit their, on their hands, ship our jobs to China, and allow our country to be burned alive letting Trump do all the dirty work.
The GOP hasn’t been innocent, particularly early on. But let’s keep perspective, the riots, the looting, the shooting, the arson, the destruction of property and lives in 2020 has been almost exclusively the left. Nobody is holding a Trump flag and burning down a police station with people in it, that’s the left doing that.
This is the only thing the President is required to follow:
“He (the President) shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.”
We’re not talking about the President - we’re talking about the Senate.
The president nominates, senate confirms… That’s it.
Yes, let’s keep perspective. This goes WAY beyond just 2020.
Let’s hope not. Let’s hope 2020 is an aberration, not a new normal. We cannot live under the treat of violence every time something doesn’t go the way a minority of people wish it would. It’s too intense. It’s unsustainable.
Tablet acting freaky.
If you think the nominees are acceptable, then a quick confirmation should make you happy the Constitution is being followed. You anti GOPers seem to think Barrett is acceptable (my presumption she is the front runner).
It is partisan, hypocritical, and hackery to come on here and say
We accept her, but ‘burn’ the GOP.
Adds zero to healing division or emulating the aforementioned Biblical example.
Zero.
Well…
It’s sounds like we all need to pull out our “WWJD?” Bumper Stickers, @treco…