A SCOTUS Opening

[Dill]

(09-21-2020, 09:12 PM)Mickeypoo Wrote: And stop with all this hypocrisy BS, please.  They are ALL hypocrites, they ALL play dirty politics and if this were reversed the Dems would be doing the EXACT same thing.  And it would be ok because it is legal and constitutional.

Can't agree with you on this, Mickey.  Even Republicans weren't like this before.

Nothing will ever get better if people keep saying "both sides do it." And sorry, but I do not see Reid or any Democrat doing what McConnell did in 2016. That was breathtaking and a taste of the four years to come--Trump's legacy of flouting civic norms and scoffing at precedent and rule of law.

We are in this position because McConnell held up judicial appointments for years, Garland's being the icing on the cake, and made up a spurious "principle" justify it--easily violated four years later.

He has done this because a minority cannot get Congress to repeal Roe vs Wade and Obamacare, or defend voter suppression at the state level. 

By blocking Obama's appt. and giving it to Trump, he'll have set the country up for a decade of division and unrest if Trump places another Federalist Society judge on the bench. His hope is that SCOTUS decisions will now fall the minority's way.

The only way to avoid that will be if the new judge does what some other "conservative" appointees have done and Trump has not--recognize the gravity of the office, put law and institution above party.