Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87. - 🦀

[X Prime]

Graham has already said he's voting to confirm.

That leaves Grassley, Collins, Murkowski, Rommey.

 

[Freedom Fries]

All of this is Harry Reid's fault. The nukes are out and nobody's going to not use them. Pack the court every generation, force legislation through that wouldn't have a snowball's chance in Hell in congress, or was rejected by the electorate, or by congress, or the President. I don't know who killed the Republic but I'm pretty sure his name rhymes with Mary Speed.

He thought it was end-of-history Neolib forevertimes. Seems pretty dumb in retrospect considering the GOP has a distinct advantage in the Senate.

 

[Shield Breaker]

I would PREFER that the court be balanced, but it's Ginsberg's own damn fault for not retiring, so fuck her.

At least when @The Last Stand says he likes older women, he means ones with a pulse.

 

[thx1138]

I'd say Grassley and Graham are probably the most likely candidates to bully onside. Anyone who votes no or even says they will after next weekend should be immediately cut from the GOP.

I caught Graham on Hannity (radio) Friday; he's in the bag on this one. He was the hero of the day on the last confirmation, I'm sure he enjoyed the dopamine rush of being able to give the middle finger to the left, and being on the winning team. Unless Trump nominates...I dunno, someone completely untenable, he'll be in. So it's really just one...

 

[Zero Day Defense]

1) Politicians don't have principles. You showed that to everyone when you were willing to slander Kavanaugh on national television for months with a woman who couldn't even remember when she was allegedly raped by him.
2) What does this even mean? You don't have anything to offer to people in this situation, and the constituency that elected those senators presumably want them to secure a conservative majority after these past four years.
3) ...like?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Ding Dong, the ugliest Female Supreme Court Judge died.

My Pastor hated her since she believed that the American age of consent should be LOWERED TO 14.

But rest in pieces.

 

[The Last Stand]

Not to harp on the dead, but would this now be a great time to impose term limits in government positions?

 

[X Prime]

I caught Graham on Hannity (radio) Friday; he's in the bag on this one. He was the hero of the day on the last confirmation, I'm sure he enjoyed the dopamine rush of being able to give the middle finger to the left, and being on the winning team. Unless Trump nominates...I dunno, someone completely untenable, he'll be in. So it's really just one...

I think Grassley will do it. We already know Collins won't.

 

[Standardized Profile]

I caught Graham on Hannity (radio) Friday; he's in the bag on this one. He was the hero of the day on the last confirmation, I'm sure he enjoyed the dopamine rush of being able to give the middle finger to the left, and being on the winning team. Unless Trump nominates...I dunno, someone completely untenable, he'll be in. So it's really just one...

Maybe we'll get another one of these:



Probably more colorful hair on the screecher this time.

 

[737 MAX Stan Account]

about damn time the spiteful old fucker croaked. Must've not gotten her stem cells.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

At least when @The Last Stand says he likes older women, he means ones with a pulse.

Dead girls can't say no.

 

[Slimy Time]

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You know it's coming.

>Picks a woman
MeToo brain malfunction.

 

[Not Really Here]

Not to harp on the dead, but would this now be a great time to impose term limits in government positions?

Good luck getting a Constitutional Amendment passed.

 

[Shield Breaker]

Sorry about that.


Slightly more on-topic, the bluechecks angry about the GOP's ability to choose Ginsburg's replacement are getting more bold in their demands for retaliatory court stacking (and other measures aimed at making the US a single-party state):

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Morons, abolishing rules when it was convenient for you is why we are going through this in the first place.

 

[tehpope]

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You know it's coming.

That's probably in a queue right now at many of "newspapers". just needs a ctrl-f to replace the pronouns and the temp names.

 

[Who dat?]

FWIW, Trump, speaking in North Carolina, announced a few minutes ago that the nominee will definitely be a woman. So maybe we'll be titillated by lurid tales of hot girl-girl action. Hope the victim kept her yearbook. And I hope she didn't boof, because farting women really aren't all that sexy.

 

[thx1138]

Dead girls can't say no.

And 12 year old girls can't fight back. I'd say ask RGB but, y'know, she's dead now.

 

[FaramirG]

I always find it so strange how people think that playing by the rules is somehow not playing fair. It isn't like the GOP is even packing the courts or anything by inflating the numbers which they could do/could have done. We desperately need a Constitutional Amendment to permanently fix the number of SCOTUS Justices.

The weird thing is how we all treat the 9 justices as the rule even though it's not fixed in the Constitution. Same with the House having just 435 members, while Britain, which has just 1/5 of our population, has more than 600 MPs in their House of Commons. These are all things that Congress decided on and just never bothered changing, like the number of members of Congress used to rise every decade with the population until they arbitrarily capped it at 435 in the House. A lot of things that we take for granted in our system of government aren't actually in the Constitution, and I think if the public was more aware of that we'd see more of a push to change things.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

FWIW, Trump, speaking in North Carolina, announced a few minutes ago that the nominee will definitely be a woman. So maybe we'll be titillated by lurid tales of hot girl-girl action. Hope the victim kept her yearbook. And I hope she didn't boof, because farting women really aren't all that sexy.

Watch them bring a guy with the absolute lowest testosterone levels to levy the rape accusation, just to throw everybody off.

 

[Jarolleon]

Court packing would absolutely disastrous to our democracy.

Turning the Supreme Court to a rubber stamp factory that gets some new employees whenever they disagree with a party that already holds two branches of Government completely obliterates the idea of checks and balances.

I can't believe that the people who always go on about Trump being fascist are advocating that kind of extreme authoritarian power grab without a hint of irony or self awareness.

"It's like Pandora's Box. Trump & his gangsters killed the Republic as we knew it for personal gain, the only question now is who will seize the reins, and I'd much rather it be forward thinking people like me"-The left, probably.