Posted on 09/22/2020 6:09:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
There are hearings.
Optics. It won’t look good to moderates if there are no hearings since it will appear to them as a power move or a “what are they hiding”. Hearings are needed regardless the amount of fake theater.
My guess is they’re intentionally doing it right before the election to get the conservative base out to vote?
While that is true about her FIL, that really can’t be imputed to her. How many people in the country don’t agree with their in-law’s politics? I bet a lot
More telling is her husband and her parents, the first because it shows the type of person she associates herself with and the second because it shows where she comes from.
Her husband has been called the “godfather of the Federalist Society in Miami.” He works for Jones Day, a firm from which at least 14 Jones Day attorneys had been appointed to work for the Trump administration. Among other things, he represented the Susan B. Anthony List in a class-action lawsuit in 2018. These aren’t things that a leftwinger would do.
Her father hoped to study law in Cuba but wasn’t permitted to do so because he refused to pledge allegiance to the Communist Party. Don’t tell me that didn’t lead to her being brought up very anti-Communist.
And as far as Lagoa herself, she is opposed by the Alliance for Justice, a super far left org. During her career she worked on the case for Elian Gonzales’ Miami based family against sending him back to Cuba. She’s anti-left.
My biggest concern with Coney Barrett is that, outside of abortion, she has a number of decisions which make you question her on other issues. For instance, he recent ruling on Illinois’ COVID shutdowns.
That’s a shame.
Like dingy harry, change the rules.
“If they find some way to stall just a couple weeks, the SC will be deadlocked during election counts. This is pushing it way too close. This should be jammed down. The Dem stalling will be epic.”
We cannot go into what is guaranteed to be a contested election in several states (vs. just FL in 2000) with even the possibility that the Court will be deadlocked - we have to have the 9th Justice seated. McConnell needs to blast this one through - not merely because we need that person seated, but because assuredly the Dems would do exactly that if the roles were reversed.
VOTE Right after nomination PERIOD!! Nothing in the constitution about hearings NOTHING!!{ The damn hearings are nothing but a circus anyway!!
Why wait? Go ahead and confirm her. Do they not understand that dems don’t care how they do it, that they will hate their guts anyway?
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