How Republicans Can Block Breyer’s Replacement

[Legion]

Only five black women are now on U.S. appeals courts, and all of them will be 68 or older this year, according to data compiled by NBC News from the Federal Judicial Center.

Supreme Court justices are usually elevated from a federal appeals court. Eleven of the last 12 confirmed justices were plucked from an appellate court — the exception was Elena Kagan, who was the U.S. solicitor general.

None of the last seven confirmed justices were older than 55 when nominated.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/problem-biden-s-pledge-black-woman-justice-n1200826

[Hawkeye10]

This is a great place to remember how useless R Senators have been in recent years.

[Guno צְבִי]

The D's are once again the party of racism.

Too funny pasty face boy

[Hawkeye10]

Too funny pasty face boy

Americans are waking up the the fraud.

[Legion]

[PostmodernProphet]

Only five black women are now on U.S. appeals courts, and all of them will be 68 or older this year, according to data compiled by NBC News from the Federal Judicial Center.

Supreme Court justices are usually elevated from a federal appeals court. Eleven of the last 12 confirmed justices were plucked from an appellate court — the exception was Elena Kagan, who was the U.S. solicitor general.

None of the last seven confirmed justices were older than 55 when nominated.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/problem-biden-s-pledge-black-woman-justice-n1200826

Brad says she's the best they can do.....

[Legion]

Brad says she's the best they can do.....

Well, if Brad** says it....




Meanwhile, back in the real world...


Given the rules of the Senate as they stand, a resolute Republican Party can pull a sequel to the Garland nomination.

Sure, the DEMOCRATS could try to change the power-sharing agreement, but as the debate on voting rights showed us in recent weeks, one hold-out voice among DEMOCRATS in favor of the filibuster can tank the plan.

[Hawkeye10]

Well, if Brad** says it....




Meanwhile, back in the real world...


Given the rules of the Senate as they stand, a resolute Republican Party can pull a sequel to the Garland nomination.

Sure, the DEMOCRATS could try to change the power-sharing agreement, but as the debate on voting rights showed us in recent weeks, one hold-out voice among DEMOCRATS in favor of the filibuster can tank the plan.

You are dreaming....The Revolution will have no trouble getting a Revolution member on the Bench.

I am wondering if this is the solution to the Harris problem.

I was the first on JPP to wonder about that.

I get Credit.

[Legion]

I was the first on JPP to wonder about that.

I get Credit.

[Hawkeye10]

TOP! Rubs Me Better!

[Celticguy]

I didn't write the article, Anchovies.

Maybe you should check the link.

Poor Anchovies.

the funny part is how the Turtle blew this past Schumer. Poor fuck had no clue as to why this procedural change was being used.

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[gemini104104]

FEAR THE TURTLE

Within moments of widespread media reports that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire when the current term ends this summer, the Washington parlor game of making a short list of judges bungling Joe Biden might consider to replace him began.

After all, bungling Biden had pledged during the campaign that he would nominate a Black woman to the nine-Justice panel.

There’s one major problem facing bungling Biden’s prospects, though: he might not be able to win confirmation for the pick.

So much of influence in Washington isn’t in the press conferences or performative turns on cable news.

The real power comes from mastering the process by which it is transferred, accumulated and defended. And, when it comes to managing a generational shift of power in America’s judicial system, no one has proven more adept than Mitch McConnell.




https://time.com/6142711/joe-biden-supreme-court-nominee-mitch-mcconnell-stephen-breyer/

Don't fart out and count your treasonous eggs before they hatch for the following reasons"

Democrats rejoice, Republicans cast any new Supreme Court nominee as radical as election-year fight begins

Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s planned retirement set up a new election-year challenge as the deadlocked 50-50 Senate confronts a heated Supreme Court confirmation fight focused on some of the most contentious issues in the nation’s ongoing cultural divide.

The news Wednesday came as a relief for liberal activists, who have worried that Democrats would lose control of the Senate before Breyer left the court, and a much-needed shot of confidence to Democratic leaders, who view the politics of the high court this year as a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy election season. President Biden has promised to nominate the first Black woman to the high court, a prospect his party hopes will excite his core supporters by delivering on a campaign promise, keeping the politics of abortion in the headlines and reminding Democrats of the importance of holding on to Senate control.

“Watching the previous administration and Mitch McConnell stacking the courts with individuals who would overturn Roe v. Wade, that is not lost on Nevadans,” said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who is running for reelection in one of the most closely contested Senate races this fall. “People are going to be paying attention this year and next year. This is such an important, galvanizing issue in my state and across the country.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp


Breyer thwarts McConnell’s plans to prevent a Biden Supreme Court appointment

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will be stepping down at the end of the current Supreme Court term in June or July. Which has to be a blow to Mitch McConnell, who has been harboring nefarious plots for making sure President Joe Biden never had the opportunity to seat a Supreme Court justice.

Those plans weren’t even secret. McConnell baldly stated last summer that he was “highly unlikely” to allow Biden to fill a vacancy in 2024, should the Senate revert to Republican control in these midterms. He added that he might just refuse to hold hearings in 2023 as well, should a vacancy come up.

“I think in the middle of a presidential election, if you have a Senate of the opposite party of the president, you have to go back to the 1880s to find the last time a vacancy was filled. So I think it’s highly unlikely,” McConnell told Hugh Hewitt in a radio interview back in Jun. 2021. That’s McConnell’s further twisting of the supposed Senate precedent that the Senate shouldn’t confirm a justice case to a presidential election."
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/207...wMvS2yGi85lo2Q

[Matt Dillon]

You know that was about 1-way Yoko. That is a 1-way ignorant bitch.

[Earl]

We already have an affirmative action VP...how did that work out?

We do not need an affirmative action Supreme Court justice.

Black and white males and white women need not apply.

[Legion]

TOP! Rubs Me Better!

Then go to her when you feel the need to be affirmed.