Posted on 10/08/2018 1:52:20 PM PDT by Liberty7732
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is signaling that he is ready and prepared to move another Supreme Court nominee from President Trump through Senate confirmation – including during the the 2020 presidential election season, if another seat were to become available then.
“We’ll see if there is a vacancy in 2020,” McConnell said in an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation."
McConnell famously blocked a Senate vote on former President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nomination Merrick Garland two years ago, on the grounds that it was a presidential election year.
When asked Sunday whether moving a Trump nominee in 2020 would break the precedent he himself set in 2016, McConnell argued that a Senate case in 1880 justified blocking a nominee in the specific situation in which the Senate is controlled by the party opposing the president.
Trump has boasted that he may have the opportunity to nominate several more justices. Court-watchers are closely tuned in, in particular, to the health of liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who is 85 years old. The second oldest justice, Stephen Breyer, also generally sides with liberals on the court.
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Mitch is ready for MORE?
What did Elaine Chou do to him Saturday night? Oh, wait, never mind, I really don’t want to know...but I like the results. :>)
Someone put some extra fiber in their Wheaties for sure. Maybe it has hit them what a big deal getting Justice Kav seated really is.
——I think Thomas may hang it up before Ginsburg expires-——
Completely agree...
RBG will be wheeled out of the SC building on a gurney into the medical Examiner van before she ever retires.
But does disabled get you kicked off SCOTUS?
“One of these overweight bloated old hags from Ginsberg, Kagan and the Wide latina Sotomayor will kick the bucket soon...”
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Sortamywhore?
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-PJ
And neither "mute" nor "moot" is even pronounced the same way...unlike the messed up there/their/they're or the too/to/two misspellings!
OTOH...a messed up loose/lose can be a typo. ;^)
"What I'm telling you is, the history is, you have to go back to 1880 to find the last time a Senate controlled party different from the president filled a vacancy on the Supreme Court that was created in the middle of a presidential election year. That's been the history."
I'm note sure Wallace got it.
“Word & rumor is that Thomas is out next summer.”
“One of these days Ruthie is just not going to be able to get out of bed.”
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One of these days ALL of us will not be able to get of bed.
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No ice!!!
It can be thrown.
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Failure to show for a prolonged period.
If Notorious decided to step down in 2020 that will help Democrats beat Trump. Fo real. Not sure they can, don’t know whom they will run. But that will be very motivating for GOTV.
“Somewhat off topic (but related) - are conservatives making progress on some of the lower courts as well?
Hope so. Don’t always want to wait for the Supremes to settle an issue.”
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Ruthie really looks bad!
Kegger Kavanaugh and his adventures LOL
There’s nothing better than the feeling of winning!! Once you feel it, you want more winning, you want to keep basking in that winning feeling.
I hope that right now Cocaine Mitch (his new name LOL!), Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley, Ted Cruz, John Cornyn and the rest of the Senate GOP is BASKING in that great feeling of winning—that great feeling you get who you defeat an evil despicable enemy. I also hope that feeling of winning is spilling over into the House.
There’s nothing like the feeling of winning to produce more winning. MAGA!!!
“Someone should poke RBG with a fork every now and then to see if she flinches.....”
IDIOT Republicans!!!!
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