Actually, Someone close to Mitt has said he plans on voting FOR the confirmation.
Oh he afraid of getting booted out.
Probably. Utah is very red. His Mormon brothers and sisters always vote red. Even though I have a theory it could go blue. But until that happens, Mitt will stay with the GOP.
Romney didn't say he was planning to vote for the confirmation, it's just that Liz Johnson has confirmed that Jim Dabakis's statement is false. Dabakis claimed that Romney was committed to not confirming a Supreme Court nominee until after Inauguration Day and she was just confirming he hasn't done it yet.
It's a very high risk, high reward play for Trump. If he and Mitch can ram through a nominee it'll depress the progressive turnout pretty bad, or at least be a final, fitting parting shot against them if he loses. But if enough RINOs cuck over that the nomination fails? The most negatively energized Democratic base in history is going to show up in November to stop the Drumpfler from getting another chance to make the Handmaid's Tale real.
I mean the opposite is true as well, as I said before SCOTUS picks bring out faggots on both sides. However I can't believe any RHINOs that vote no have a chance of staying in their seats, and it is far past primary time so losing 4-5 seats because of RHINO betrayal would hurt even if Trump wins.
You see how everything in california is on fire? That...but everywhere.
I'd actually argue that it is the play to make. If Trump were to do nothing and promise another judge after the election, the progressives will still be energized to remove him from office. If he could afford to hold off on this, he would. It's telling he released his additional Supreme Court nominees only nine days before Ginsburg died. He knew she was not going to last much longer.
Depends on where that lower court is. The more conservative the area, the more likely it is to favor Trump. At least I'd presume that's how that it would work. Vice versa if it's say, the 9th Court District.
This did not age well.
A 4-4 tie would basically be a wash, which would pretty much mean the lower court's decision before it was appealed to USSC stands. In Bush v Gore this would've meant that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would've held and been allowed to continue. In this case? Who knows what it'll look like but a massive clusterfuck that'll only benefit the Democrats allowing them to get away with whatever fuckery they're pulling.
That's the impression I'm getting so far, I can't find a straight answer to what would likely happen, since "it's decided by a lower court" is so vague. Makes me wonder if Roberts would grow a spine in this instance to avoid a 4-4 tie scenario due to the chaos that would result, but sadly that seems optimistic to me.
That is really the only good thing one can do.
Lets see if Trump nominates someone..and how the election and fallout from it go.
The one thing I don't get about this kind of talk is, aren't there countries where pretty much everyone knows the elections are a sham that are still somewhat stable? People just kind of accept it because they'd rather not get thrown out of a helicopter.
They assume that the TDS will be so strong that they'll sweep all 3 branches and make
Maybe political systems have always been a substitute for the war of all against all. Rather than shooting each other over our differences, we elect politicians to run gay ops against each other.
They kind of are though, in a twisted way. Most people don't truly believe in their religion anymore in the West, they believe in whatever the left of previous decades promoted successfully enough to become ingrained in the broader culture, plus watered down stuff like the Golden Rule. The left is all about applying the "morality" most of us believe in an impractical, bullheaded sort of way, and the right is about saying "Hey wait a minute, that sounds good, but it doesn't work."
