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RIP RUTH

 
Emir 2020-09-18 23:47:42 

An an election year, lets see if Mitch will try to get an appointment in before the elections.

 
Chrissy 2020-09-18 23:51:55 

In reply to Emir

A great woman is dead

 
trev114 2020-09-19 00:03:41 

So sad
Now Trump will get another conservative

 
birdseye 2020-09-19 00:09:54 

In reply to Chrissy Sad indeed ---perilous times for the US legal system – I just hope they don’t try to push thru someone before the election --- but then again the lord works in mysterious ways – Roberts may just take her place.

 
dayne 2020-09-19 00:13:31 

Well RIP Miss. Ginsburg, but I think that Trump may have just got a good distraction from the rest of his issues.

 
Emir 2020-09-19 00:46:29 

In reply to trev114

Sad

 
trev114 2020-09-19 00:56:59 

There might not be time for a senate vote this year but even if the Dems win the presidency and senate, McConnell can still prevail in the lame duck session before new senate is sworn in

 
Runs 2020-09-19 01:09:42 

RIP McConnell promised a floor vote in the Senate before the elections

 
Casper 2020-09-19 02:23:05 

In reply to Emir

lets see if Mitch will try to get an appointment in before the elections.



Let's see? As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, Mitch and Trump will have a conservative in before the end of the year, worse still if Biden wins and the Dems were to win the Senate, you can bet Mitch will force a new justice in the new year before Biden's inauguration.

I have told this MB too many times before how the Supreme/Federal Appeal Courts are part of the GOP/Right Wing effort to stymie any Democratic Party that is overly influenced by a growing majority-minority demographics.

Mitch McConnell will not let this moment pass to plug that hole with another young Conservative jurist.

Here is the problem:


46% of whites worry becoming a majority-minority nation will 'weaken American culture,' survey says.

The dead of the great RBG is as much an "October Surprise" in September.

This presidential campaign has now shifted from talk about a pandemic to all about the Supreme Court..

I should add this. If McConnel goes through and give Trump another Supreme Court pick, should Biden win, and is lucky enough to get a Senate majority, one of his first steps should be to change the Supreme Court from 9 jurists to 11, to return some kind of balance to the court.

 
dayne 2020-09-19 03:15:08 

Well this is what happens when things are left up to chance, people were hinting to Ginsburg to retire years ago when Obama was in office, but she was not a team player on that issue.

 
hotarobin 2020-09-19 04:01:12 

In reply to dayne

she hedged her bets on Hilary becoming president....it didn't work out....

 
Emir 2020-09-19 12:23:59 

In reply to Chrissy

Indeed.

Now FOX is already discussing that Mitch must move fast to get someone. Mitch's past rejection of Obama nominee the FEBRUARY before the Nov. 2016 election is if no consequence says FOX, because back then, the senate majority and the WH were from different parties.

Imagine the leader of the senate is allowed to get away by this type of thinking.

Are we really the leader of the free-world?

 
Emir 2020-09-19 12:27:17 

In reply to Casper


46% of whites worry becoming a majority-minority nation will 'weaken American culture,' survey says


And I think this is why Trump, the White Nationalist movement and the radical evangelical christian groups have supported Trump and will continue to do so

 
Curtis 2020-09-19 13:05:52 

Well, to be honest, there isn't a dominant majority race/culture in the world who wouldn't fret about perceived dilution of their culture.

If there is, I am unaware of it.

 
Ridge 2020-09-19 13:13:21 

Everything is falling into place.

 
Emir 2020-09-19 20:53:58 

In reply to Curtis

None sense