June 27, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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As I recall,, the very few opportunities for the Dems to do anything at all about Garland, the Rethugs made sure it wouldn’t happen. As for a recess appointment, Obama only saw Garland on the bench for maybe a year before the Rethugs got rid of him. That to his mind would be tantamount to using Garland as a badminton bird.
1The author makes a lot of assumptions.
McTurtle went so far as to suppress credible evidence that Russia was interfering in the 2016 POTUS election, specifically by working for the 45-to-be campaign^. The biggest fault for the Dems was nominating a candidate that had 30+ years of slime (mostly falsely applied) coating her. Dems should have viewed the 2016 election more of the SCOTUS than the POTUS…
^ Was that treasonous?
2What should Dems have done? We all know what McConnell did. It seems to me we were powerless to stop this thwft. Please enlighten.
3Has there ever even been a recess appointment for a Supreme Court judge before?
4@maggie and Ed: They could have done 2 things – The Dems could have raised hell 24/7, not sat back and wring their hands like they did. Second, when the Senate refused to even have hearings, Obama should have appointed him. The Constitution says the president has the power to nominate and to appoint. His only obligation is to seek “advice and consent” from the Senate. The Senate abrogated its authority. Obama should have appointed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-can-appoint-merrick-garland-to-the-supreme-court-if-the-senate-does-nothing/2016/04/08/4a696700-fcf1-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html?utm_term=.2d5ed53f4a63
5Blowing the 2014 election was the cause of this.
6….and now Kennedy is retiring. Say hello to Supreme Court Justice Jeanine Pirro.
Sadly, el jeffe, wringing their hands and wailing is what the establishment Dems do best.
7What el Jeffe said times 10!
Kennedy this is awful. This is awful times 10.
8In hindsight, the snacilbupeR cannot see past the ends of their very short noses. Do they seriously think their tantrum of 2016 won’t come back to bite them? THEY set the precedent. Do they truly believe the Democrats won’t follow it?
The HUGE downside for all of us, of course, is the partisan tilt of the courts. They were supposed to be the one incorruptible branch of the government. Non-partisanship was supposed to be the name of that game. Sure, PEOPLE will have partisan preferences — that can’t be avoided. But life terms coupled with alternating parties appointing them were supposed to provide balance.
But the R’s threw the monkey wrench into the works and now, with Kennedy’s retirement, Trump and his minions in the Senate will RUSH THROUGH the next appointment before November.
One thing is certain: the Democrats will not go quietly when their turn comes. And heaven knows when the system will right itself. The 12th of Never springs to mind.
9The great Charlie Pierce had this to say on the subject, “Stop arguing that stupid sauce-for-the-goose line about what McConnell did. Only one argument — the president* is under investigation and not altogether sane.”
10I see retroactive constitutional amendments in the future regarding judges. Terms of what, 10 years? 8? All the way to SCOTUS. I don’t see another way to restore actual “justice” to this nation.
11The SCOTUS decisions this week against muslims, unions, gerrymandering, and the right to choose have made it painfullyclear that women, minorities, workers, the poor and progressive voters are targets of the Rethuglicans success at weaponizing the justice system.
12The mistakes the Dems made are in the past. Let’s concentrate on battling this appointment process and recruiting some moderate Rethugs who don’t want Dump to have complete control and put real pressure on our DINOs to vote with the party.
DEMOCRATS did?
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