Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead

[Althea]

Yep its an inconvenient time for her to die. I doubt the Republicans try to push a nomination through before the election. RIP Madame Justice. She leaves giant shoes to fill.

What about the lame duck?

[Stone]

Really. Why not just an Executive Order.

Because that wouldnt have been quite as funny for me to post it that way...

[Jack]

The Swamp will not allow it, and they are plenty strong enough to stop it, it is not an option.

Dude. McConnell will have a replacement by tomorrow (Saturday). The next day (Sunday), McConnell will convene the Senate.

[/MSG/]

(shaking head)

Cry harder. How dare I not mourn the death of a complete stranger?

[Trump's Brain]

Yep its an inconvenient time for her to die. I doubt the Republicans try to push a nomination through before the election. RIP Madame Justice. She leaves giant shoes to fill.

Au Contraire, my friend.

Mitch McConnell stated with zero shame, "if a SCOTUS seat needs to be filled this year, we'll fill it"!

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/14/polit...ncy/index.html

Washington (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday again reiterated his position that the GOP-led Senate would confirm a nominee to any Supreme Court vacancy that occurred this election year, despite leaving a seat vacant in 2016 and preventing President Barack Obama's nominee from consideration.

[Althea]

We are talking about the difference between leaving a seat open for a year, and not leaving a seat open at all. We are talking about the difference between the Senate conformation in normal sessions, and trying to get a Senate conformation literally in the middle of an election.

There was no reason to not give Obama's nominee a vote, there was more than enough time to do so. They even had the conformation hearings in their spare time.

There is no way to get enough time to have conformation hearings for trump's nominee. With Senators running for reelection, you would have to call them all back for weeks. They would literally be working on election day. I doubt the Republicans will even support that.

Can they be called into session during the lame duck?

[Jack]

Cry harder. How dare I not mourn the death of a complete stranger?

It will be a MONUMENTAL battle between Red Team and Blue Team.

[christiefan915]

"...for the nine years between 1972 and the end of 1981, William Rehnquist consumed great quantities of the potent sedative-hypnotic Placidyl. So great was Rehnquist’s Placidyl habit, dependency, or addiction—depending on how you regard long-term drug use—that by the last quarter of 1981 he began slurring his speech in public, became tongue-tied while pronouncing long words, and sometimes had trouble finishing his thoughts...

A confidential report on Rehnquist’s medical history prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee, which contained more details about his habit, was leaked to the press...

After the Post broke the story about Rehnquist’s drug habit, other news organizations reported that his “health problem” had been apparent to Supreme Court observers for three months before he was hospitalized on Dec. 27, 1981, (UPI) and that “reporters and lawyers at the Court” had notice Rehnquist’s speaking problem “in recent months” (New York Times).

According to a Jan. 4, 1982, New York Times account, Rehnquist sought help with the drug in December 1981 because it no longer relieved his pain. He entered George Washington University Hospital on Dec. 27. According to the physician spokesman for the hospital he suffered “disturbances in mental clarity, characterized by distorted perceptions,” as doctors weaned him off the drug. The spokesman added that after his Placidyl was cut off, Rehnquist began ”hearing things and seeing things that other people did not hear and see.” The doctors took his dose back up before re-weaning him. By mid-January, Rehnquist returned to the bench...

When Rehnquist’s drug problem became an issue during the 1986 confirmation hearings, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, defended Rehnquist in a Post story, saying he got into trouble with Placidyl because he was “a very compliant patient” who “followed the advice” of his doctors. Ah, yes, one of the most brilliant jurists of his time was the victim of his rotten doctors for almost a decade!

Are we to believe that one of the court’s sharpest minds never availed himself of a Physicians’ Desk Reference for independent medical information, or in any way tried to educate himself about the drug he was taking in larger and larger quantities...?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...rug-habit.html

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It will be a MONUMENTAL battle between Red Team and Blue Team.

It'll be a whole load of nothing. Oh boy, two sides fighting for control of the State and how they get to fuck me over? Hot diggity damn, I better lube my ass up then!

[Hawkeye10]

Dude. McConnell will have a replacement by tomorrow (Saturday). The next day (Sunday), McConnell will convene the Senate.

WATCH

As you do try to remember the last time the Legacy R's did the right thing.

[Trump's Brain]

This is troubling. McConnell might keep mum until after the election. If he makes any noise before November, it might cost him his seat.

I don't know, McConnell stated several months ago that in spite of his refusal to have hearing for the Obama nominee in 2016 that he'll definitely seat a justice this year for trump (see post #65).

Hypocrisy is now the lynchpin of today's Republican.

[canceled.2021.3]

Drop dead, pig.

That would be Ginsburg who dropped dead Cuntiefan

Come on tell me how distraught you. Tell Uncle Teflon

Bwahahahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahahhahah hahahaha

[canceled.2021.3]

What about the lame duck?

No lame duck dumb fuck

Trump is President until January

[Flash]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/18/polit...ead/index.html

Surely the D's will not allow her position to be filled...RIGHT?

They don't have the votes to stop it. They screwed themselves when they used the nuclear option because then the Republicans started using it also.

[Jack]

It'll be a whole load of nothing. Oh boy, two sides fighting for control of the State and how they get to fuck me over? Hot diggity damn, I better lube my ass up then!

It's what the Jesus Freaks have been Praying for, a chance to turn the Court into one supporting Christian Sharia Law.
There will be massive pressure on Trump to get this done.