In related news, they’ve given up all attempts at pretense.
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“I’m a Thanksgiving!”
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You can’t really do that without changing the Constitution.
That being said, Article III section I says this:
The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Nowhere does it say once someone’s on the supreme court that they can’t be rotated out to an inferior court. Seems like an interesting potential loophole to consider.
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Flip-flopper! HYPOCRITE! You see, both sides are just the same! /s
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Fuckers, the lot of them.
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Mitch had a majority (but not a supermajority) when he refused to consider Merrick Garland. Kagan and Sotomayor were confirmed by a supermajority that included some Republicans. This particular evil is relatively new.
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This. In the past the Senate voted based on who was qualified to do the job. RBG got confirmed with some 92 votes, FFS. These last few justices getting rammed through sham confirmation proceedings with slim and hyper-partisan majorities is definitely not the norm.
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oh if only leslie stahl had responded like that.
im so impressed by her questioning of trump and pence. to not take any of their flack personally, and just carry on the interview as if they weren’t insulting her and wasting her time at every turn. still, an “i’m a thanksgiving” would have been brilliant
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The Republicans will just refuse to confirm any Democratic nominees. That’s what they did under Obama, that’s the whole reason the rule was changed. You can’t reinstate the filibuster but make everybody pinky-swear not to use it. The toothpaste is not going back in that tube.
There is no way to protect a Democratic minority without handing the next Republican minority a weapon that they will use even more often.
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remains to be seen about biden though. obama was ( and is ) a black man, and while not every last thing in american politics can be chalked up to racism, it’s clear that much of the antagonism against obama had nothing to do with his policies
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So the solution is to only nominate white men to be president?
Then the Republicans will go back to respecting “norms”?
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They threatened to hold Garland’s seat open for the entirety of Clinton’s presidency when it looked like she was going to win.
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you’re obviously upset with someone other than me.
my only point is that the person most likely to become the next democratic president is joe biden. he is a white man, and while the republicans will holler about deficits and use their supreme court to bash the laws they don’t like my guess - my personal guess - is that the senate will magically become more respectful again.
what’s worse is that people will claim this has something to do with biden’s skills at bipartisanship. but obama also worked - or tried to - across the aisle, and he had mad skills. ( look at obamacare, and look at garland’s track record and see how obama was treated for those efforts. )
it won’t be biden’s skills, but rather the “in group” mentality of the gop. and that’s no doubt at least part of why things like the lincoln project exist already. ( it’d be fascinating to see how many people on the right would be supporting the democrats right now if the ticket were reversed with harris at the top )
and they spent nearly a decade demonizing clinton because she didn’t want to play the quiet first lady.
the gop has serious issues ( and the democrats have a few of their own ) with people who aren’t white men. that’s just facts. it’s part of why they shouldn’t be in any positions of power.
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got me there, if somebody is “upset” that must mean they’re wrong
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The GOP has serious issues with people who aren’t in the GOP. Full stop.
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currently that’s true, but it hasn’t always been. you’ve got the blue dog democrats, the gang of 14 ( 7 from each side ), the mccain-feingold act, warren hatch and edward kennedy working on the child healthcare bill ( chip ) – i’m cribbing from wikipedia to help my memory… but the point is the partisanship that the gop set itself on during obama’s tenure was embodied and carried forward by mr birther himself. and i believe that’s down to their racism.
there are already signs that there’s a whole host of republicans ready to play ball with biden if they have to. and some part of that is simply – in my opinion – due to the fact that biden is an old white dude like they are.
the downside of it is, in my opinion, the willingness of dems to bend just for the sake of looking like they’ll comprise. if the gop were full on nuclear war still, then the dems might actually be ready to ignore them.
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I’m talking about packing the court, then locking the door afterwards. Get SCOTUS up to 21 justices, young ones, then lock a 60 vote requirement up in law.
In forty years, when it could become a problem again, our political landscape will have utterly changed.
They hate Mitt Fucking Romney. He got death threats for voting in favor of conviction in the impeachment trial. I’m frankly shocked he didn’t get ejected from the party like Justin Amash. We’re a week away from possibly going full fascist dictatorship. We’re there, dude.
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That’s a creative approach and we’ll need creativity if we’re going to find a way forward. I wouldn’t have thought of that. My mind’s gone to some dark places the last few weeks, dark and not at all constructive.
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He finally realized that killing his own base is a bad idea
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‘The “in group” mentality of the gop’ has hardened around “owning the libs”. It is a fantasy to think that the Republicans will want to play ball with Biden. Some of them might. But authoritarianism has infected their brains and legalism no longer holds any appeal for them.
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