Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away

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BowlBrother85 said:
This doesn't make any sense. RBG was a leftist extremist. If you replace one leftist extremist with another, you haven't changed anything. If you replace a leftist extremist with a far right extremist... you have fundamentally changed the court.
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I look for Thomas and maybe Byre to retire sometime within the next 4 years, If Biden is in office that would ensure 3 radical Sotomyer type appointments.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
If Senate Republicans didn't want Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court in 2016, then all they had to do was take up a vote and reject him. They didn't want to do that, because they could see that he was a qualified and reasonable choice. There is plenty of precedent for rejecting a nominee, a nominee withdrawing from consideration or the President pulling the nomination. There is not much precedent for not taking any action at all on a Supreme Court nomination. I can only find 3 other nominations in history that didn't get a Senate vote without being either declined or withdrawn: William C. Micou in 1852; Edward A. Bradford in 1853; and John M. Read in 1845.

Allowing a Supreme Court seat to remain vacant for over a year without ever taking a vote on a nomination, was a radical step by Republicans in 2016. There will be an incredible amount of lingering bitterness over this if Biden wins, the Democrats take back control of the Senate and Trump still fills the Supreme Court seat with a conservative after the election. Under such a scenario, I could see Democrats packing the hell out of the Supreme Court. This isn't great for the country.
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if the court is packed, the nation is over. there will literally be states leave the union, probably led by Texas.
 
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TNVOLNAVY said:
Elections have consequences. Get on the back of the bus.
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September 2018:

Sen. Lindsey Graham said in 2018 that the Senate would wait until the next election to vote on a Supreme Court pick should a seat become vacant during the last year of President Donald Trump's term.
 
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The court long ago became an agent of social change that could not be accomplished in congress. Personally, I would like to see term limits for all federal judges seeing as how the argument that lifetime tenure will obviate against partisanship on the bench is no longer valid in an era when the appointment process is so politicized.
 
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None of us know if McConnel can even get 50 votes out of his caucus. And we don't know who the nominee will be. It could be someone very reasonable and acceptable to all but the most partisan idealouges on both sides. The people who want to take to the streets today are probably just driving more moderate voters into the Trump column.
 
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Three Supreme Court Justices Were Confirmed In Less Than 45 Days, Including Ginsburg



Three Supreme Court Justices Were Confirmed In Less Than 45 Days, Including Ginsburg

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020 By Jordan Davidson
Three Supreme Court Justices, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who passed away on Friday due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer, were confirmed by the Senate within 45 days of their formal nomination date.
According to Senate records, Justices Ginsburg, John Paul Stevens, and Sandra Day O’Connor were all confirmed in a short period of time. Stevens’s confirmation in 1975 took 19 days, O’Connor’s confirmation in 1981 took 33 days, and Ginsburg’s confirmation in 1993 took 42 days.

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BigOrangeD said:
Three Supreme Court Justices Were Confirmed In Less Than 45 Days, Including Ginsburg
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
None of us know if McConnel can even get 50 votes out of his caucus. And we don't know who the nominee will be. It could be someone very reasonable and acceptable to all but the most partisan idealouges on both sides. The people who want to take to the streets today are probably just driving more moderate voters into the Trump column.
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47 may do it if only 6 abstain from voting. You could have 5 abstain and get a 48 47 confirmation. If 47 to 47, then Pence could decide it.
 
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Ted Cruz Explains Perfectly Why RBG’s Seat Must Be Filled Before the Election
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz says President Donald Trump needs to nominate a successor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg next week, and that the Senate should confirm that choice or the country risks a constitutional crisis.
“I believe that the president should, next week, nominate a successor to the court. I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day,” Senator Cruz told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
“Democrats and Joe Biden have made clear they intend to challenge this election. They intend to fight the legitimacy of the election. As you you know Hillary Clinton has told Joe Biden ‘under no circumstances should you concede, you should challenge this election.’ and we cannot have election day come and go with a 4-4 court.”
Cruz continued, “A 4-4 court that is equally divided cannot decide anything. And I think we risk a constitutional crisis if we do not have a nine-justice Supreme Court, particularly when there is such a risk of … a contested election.”
Cruz then shared his experience litigating Bush vs. Gore case and how the country didn’t know for 37 days who the president-elect was. “I think we have the responsibility to do our job. The president should nominate a principled constitutionalist with a proven record and the Senate … should do our job and protect the country from the constitutional crisis that could result otherwise.”
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
The court long ago became an agent of social change that could not be accomplished in congress. Personally, I would like to see term limits for all federal judges seeing as how the argument that lifetime tenure will obviate against partisanship on the bench is no longer valid in an era when the appointment process is so politicized.
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That’s the liberal perspective on the purpose of the court
 
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TNVOLNAVY said:
RGB was just a clump of cells. Not sure why the leftists are outraged.
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I don't like Rush Limbaugh, and statistically speaking, he will probably die within the next 4 years, but that doesn't make me feel better. I'm sure he has a family and people who care about him. I know I won't gloat over it when it happens.

Do you really think you're more civil than liberals?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I don't like Rush Limbaugh, and statistically speaking, he will probably die within the next 4 years, but that doesn't make me feel better. I'm sure he has a family and people who care about him. I know I won't gloat over it when it happens.

Do you really think you're more civil than liberals?
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I think he was just making a point about RBGs position on life of the unborn.
 
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