McConnell: I'd fill a SCOTUS vacancy during 2020 election

[Benton]

(05-29-2019, 11:23 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Eh, I'm not sure I'm able to completely back you on this one.  While I agree that the SCOTUS as configured is likely to be more pro-business (the recent Apple ruling aside) I think a conservative SCOTUS is going to be necessary for preventing the far left agenda of dismantling some of the bedrock principles of the nation such as the first amendment.  When I look at the anti-liberal (in the classic sense of the term) shifts in the UK and Europe, where people are arrested and even jailed for having the wrong opinions or "misgendering" someone I thank the powers that be that the Framers saw fit to make such actions blatantly unconstitutional.  The SCOTUS will have to protect this obvious right within the next four or five years.

If you'd said Second, I'd agree. But, mostly, it's been the far right working to dismantle the first. I'd go into detail, but I'm running late to pick up my kid from her school mandated Bible class. It's the one that replaced biology in this year's curriculum.