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Post by hoya73 on Apr 7, 2022 11:38:56 GMT -5
Or maybe the holy rollers are trying to expedite the coming of the Armageddon/rapture? Trump already fulfilled the prophecy of an anti-Christ, no?
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 7, 2022 12:56:04 GMT -5
The morally bankrupt MAGA GOP on the wrong side of history. Disgusting.
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Post by tashoya on Apr 7, 2022 13:31:26 GMT -5
Way uglier than it should have been but it's an historic day that has been far too long in coming.
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Post by SDHoya on Apr 7, 2022 13:46:28 GMT -5
I'd imagine that the candidate he ultimately nominates well get an ABA "well qualified" rating. I'd also imagine that most Republicans will oppose the nomination (as most Democrats have opposed Republican nominees to the court since Bork). I'd further anticipate that the Senate will have little trouble confirming whoever is nominated and that a handful of older-guard Republicans will vote to confirm. As predicted. Biden nominated a well qualified jurist. Democrats quickly lined up behind her. Most Republicans opposed the nominee based on vague "ideological" differences (in reality, a simple tit for tat, "You Dems stopped voting to confirm our nominees, so we're happy to reciprocate"), although they generally stayed away from direct criticism and in some cases lightly praised her. Cruz, Hawley and Cotton made fools of themselves in an effort to position for a presidential run. And a handful of older-guard Republicans voted to confirm. You can argue until turning blue in the face about who started the path towards partisan confirmation fights and who escalated this--but this is the reality now. Congratulations to Justice Jackson.
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Post by njhoya78 on Apr 7, 2022 13:52:03 GMT -5
So...Lindsay Graham is barred from the Senate floor because he refused to wear a tie, and Rand Paul delays his arrival to the floor to vote, so as to delay tabulation of the vote. Then, after the vote, all but one GOP Senator leave the chamber, so that only Mitt Romney was present on that side of the aisle for the reading of the result of the vote. Reprehensible.
The GOP has certainly become the Party of Incivility.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 7, 2022 13:54:07 GMT -5
So...Lindsay Graham is barred from the Senate floor because he refused to wear a tie, and Rand Paul delays his arrival to the floor to vote, so as to delay tabulation of the vote. Then, after the vote, all but one GOP Senator leave the chamber, so that only Mitt Romney was present on that side of the aisle for the reading of the result of the vote. Reprehensible. The GOP has certainly become the Party of Incivility. They are fashioning themselves after their Dear Leader, the orange psychopath.
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 7, 2022 15:41:36 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 8, 2022 5:04:44 GMT -5
I'd imagine that the candidate he ultimately nominates well get an ABA "well qualified" rating. I'd also imagine that most Republicans will oppose the nomination (as most Democrats have opposed Republican nominees to the court since Bork). I'd further anticipate that the Senate will have little trouble confirming whoever is nominated and that a handful of older-guard Republicans will vote to confirm. As predicted. Biden nominated a well qualified jurist. Democrats quickly lined up behind her. Most Republicans opposed the nominee based on vague "ideological" differences (in reality, a simple tit for tat, "You Dems stopped voting to confirm our nominees, so we're happy to reciprocate"), although they generally stayed away from direct criticism and in some cases lightly praised her. Cruz, Hawley and Cotton made fools of themselves in an effort to position for a presidential run. And a handful of older-guard Republicans voted to confirm. You can argue until turning blue in the face about who started the path towards partisan confirmation fights and who escalated this--but this is the reality now. Congratulations to Justice Jackson. I guess it's a "one party trend" to deny even a hearing to any other Biden nominee to SCOTUS if another vacancy should occur. MAGA GOPers, anti-democratic to the core. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he won't commit to hearings for a potential Supreme Court nominee if he's the Senate Majority Leader leading up to the 2024 election. Driving the news: The Senate minority leader told Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he won't "put the cart before the horse," but would expect President Biden to moderate if Republicans retake Congress. "What I can tell you for sure, if House and Senate are Republican next year, the president will finally be the moderate he campaigned as," he said. McConnell refused to answer whether he was devising an argument against holding a potential hearing on a Supreme Court nominee next year. SOURCE: Axios, April 7, 2022 (J. Swan interview with Moscow Mitch who said the orange psychopath was "morally responsible" for the 1/6 insurrection but would still support him if he is the GOP nominee for President in 2024 - quite a party/cult you have there). Any rational human being (this excludes any "Republicans" I guess) should watch this interview to see to what depths the MAGA GOP party/cult has sunk. www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-interview-jonathan-swan-axios-9ee7be91-c6ff-4517-9eff-f22eedf2442d.html
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Post by SDHoya on Apr 8, 2022 10:51:48 GMT -5
As predicted. Biden nominated a well qualified jurist. Democrats quickly lined up behind her. Most Republicans opposed the nominee based on vague "ideological" differences (in reality, a simple tit for tat, "You Dems stopped voting to confirm our nominees, so we're happy to reciprocate"), although they generally stayed away from direct criticism and in some cases lightly praised her. Cruz, Hawley and Cotton made fools of themselves in an effort to position for a presidential run. And a handful of older-guard Republicans voted to confirm. You can argue until turning blue in the face about who started the path towards partisan confirmation fights and who escalated this--but this is the reality now. Congratulations to Justice Jackson. I guess it's a "one party trend" to deny even a hearing to any other Biden nominee to SCOTUS if another vacancy should occur. MAGA GOPers, anti-democratic to the core. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he won't commit to hearings for a potential Supreme Court nominee if he's the Senate Majority Leader leading up to the 2024 election. Driving the news: The Senate minority leader told Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he won't "put the cart before the horse," but would expect President Biden to moderate if Republicans retake Congress. "What I can tell you for sure, if House and Senate are Republican next year, the president will finally be the moderate he campaigned as," he said. McConnell refused to answer whether he was devising an argument against holding a potential hearing on a Supreme Court nominee next year. SOURCE: Axios, April 7, 2022 (J. Swan interview with Moscow Mitch who said the orange psychopath was "morally responsible" for the 1/6 insurrection but would still support him if he is the GOP nominee for President in 2024 - quite a party/cult you have there). Any rational human being (this excludes any "Republicans" I guess) should watch this interview to see to what depths the MAGA GOP party/cult has sunk. www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-interview-jonathan-swan-axios-9ee7be91-c6ff-4517-9eff-f22eedf2442d.htmlTo be fair, a Dem controlled Senate has not had the opportunity to deny hearing to a GOP president's SCOTUS nominee (from quick research, the last chance would have been the Clarence Thomas nomination). I'm fairly confident that should the shoe end up on the other foot, Schumer (or whoever else by that time is Majority Leader) would do the same as McConnell did with Garland. And the GOP will have deserved it.
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Post by hoya73 on Apr 8, 2022 10:54:51 GMT -5
I'd imagine that the candidate he ultimately nominates well get an ABA "well qualified" rating. I'd also imagine that most Republicans will oppose the nomination (as most Democrats have opposed Republican nominees to the court since Bork). I'd further anticipate that the Senate will have little trouble confirming whoever is nominated and that a handful of older-guard Republicans will vote to confirm. And a handful of older-guard Republicans voted to confirm. Would that be the "Tommy Lucchese handful?"
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 8, 2022 11:48:52 GMT -5
I guess it's a "one party trend" to deny even a hearing to any other Biden nominee to SCOTUS if another vacancy should occur. MAGA GOPers, anti-democratic to the core. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he won't commit to hearings for a potential Supreme Court nominee if he's the Senate Majority Leader leading up to the 2024 election. Driving the news: The Senate minority leader told Axios’ Jonathan Swan that he won't "put the cart before the horse," but would expect President Biden to moderate if Republicans retake Congress. "What I can tell you for sure, if House and Senate are Republican next year, the president will finally be the moderate he campaigned as," he said. McConnell refused to answer whether he was devising an argument against holding a potential hearing on a Supreme Court nominee next year. SOURCE: Axios, April 7, 2022 (J. Swan interview with Moscow Mitch who said the orange psychopath was "morally responsible" for the 1/6 insurrection but would still support him if he is the GOP nominee for President in 2024 - quite a party/cult you have there). Any rational human being (this excludes any "Republicans" I guess) should watch this interview to see to what depths the MAGA GOP party/cult has sunk. www.axios.com/mitch-mcconnell-interview-jonathan-swan-axios-9ee7be91-c6ff-4517-9eff-f22eedf2442d.htmlTo be fair, a Dem controlled Senate has not had the opportunity to deny hearing to a GOP president's SCOTUS nominee (from quick research, the last chance would have been the Clarence Thomas nomination). I'm fairly confident that should the shoe end up on the other foot, Schumer (or whoever else by that time is Majority Leader) would do the same as McConnell did with Garland. And the GOP will have deserved it. I doubt it. They simply aren't politically that craven for power and more typically adhere to norms. See e.g., Garland's approach to investigating the orange psychopath even though there is enough predication under current AG Guidelines and the FBI's Domestic Investigations & Operations Guide. EDIT: I hope the USMS and CSOs have increased Judge Jackson's personal security. Since the MAGA GOP Senate has accused her of aiding child pornoraphers and pedophiles and Moscow Mitch has said she'll carry out a "radical leftist agenda", the threat to her personal security and that of her family is real. The penchant for violence in the political arena is a "one party trend" of the MAGA GOP. But, the Dems are the same as the MAGA GOP?
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