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10-06-2018, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Whoever she nominated had to get past a Republican senate...?
It didn't have to be Garland but it wouldn't have been a "commie slug."
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Just about anything can happen in this country -- virtually anything. Ask any conservative how Obama ever got elected, not once but twice! (I still can't believe that the people were that stupid!) Then turn around and ask any liberal how Trump got elected, and he won't be able to give a coherent answer because he's still in "shell shock" mode.
Plus...there's the RINO factor. The Senate is loaded with these beasts.
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10-06-2018, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by boxcar
Despicable and Slimy is when a nominee is brought before the Senate and the dimwits perpetrate wholesale character assassination upon that person for purely political reasons, and that person's heretofore impeccable reputation and his family's is ruined forever. No one has a moral right to do that. But under the Law of the Land, the Senate does have the legal right to "advise or consent" on judicial nominees OR NOT.
You're pathetic, Burls. Get up to speed on the Constitution before you enhance your next buffoonery. 
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ominee/482733/
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/pol...e71823087.html |
Blah Blah Blah ...
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10-06-2018, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by tucker6
In fact, there are NO qualifications spelled out.Just checked.
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And that's why the next nominee should be Richard Grenell. Heads will explode and there will be no one to vote no. 
Although I'm really hoping for a Haley/Grenell presidential ticket.
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10-06-2018, 01:55 PM
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#2404
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Originally Posted by boxcar
Just about anything can happen in this country -- virtually anything. Ask any conservative how Obama ever got elected, not once but twice! (I still can't believe that the people were that stupid!) Then turn around and ask any liberal how Trump got elected, and he won't be able to give a coherent answer because he's still in "shell shock" mode.
Plus...there's the RINO factor. The Senate is loaded with these beasts.
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Uh huh...
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10-06-2018, 02:33 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Merrick Garland is a commie slug?
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She never nominated him.
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10-06-2018, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Burls
Blah Blah Blah ...
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Got a bad case of the blahs today, huh? Hate to tell you this but it's going to get worse for you in about 30 minutes or so.
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10-06-2018, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Uh huh...
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Huh huh...
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10-06-2018, 04:05 PM
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Just another Facist
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Originally Posted by hcap
She had many more witnesses that were not interviewed.
Overall more than 40 people with potential information for the investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have not been contacted for interviews by the FBI, NBC News has learned.
Witnesses suggested by Ford — After the FBI concluded its investigation, Ford’s lawyers wrote a letter to FBI Director Wray objecting to the bureau’s methods and calling its investigation “a stain on the process, on the FBI and on our American ideal of justice.” The letter also included a list of other witnesses that Ford’s lawyers provided to the FBI and who they say were not contacted.
Not to mention Dr. Ford herself
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After she struck out with her first 4 suggestions, I can see why they ignored her
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10-06-2018, 06:37 PM
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Who do you think will be trumps third nomination to the SCOTUS
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10-06-2018, 06:38 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
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Ann Coulter
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10-06-2018, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by chadk66
Who do you think will be trumps third nomination to the SCOTUS
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Hardiman.
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10-06-2018, 07:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom
Ann Coulter
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she'd be perfect 
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10-06-2018, 08:33 PM
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Originally Posted by chadk66
Who do you think will be trumps third nomination to the SCOTUS
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In order to prevent another attempted witch burning, Trump needs to nominate
an African American, transsexual, Muslim Virgin.
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10-06-2018, 08:40 PM
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Smarty Pants
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Every Vote Counts
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Originally Posted by MONEY
In order to prevent another attempted witch burning, Trump needs to nominate
an African American, transsexual, Muslim Virgin.
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Nominate an Alien!
Identity politics unleashed.
Last edited by Buckeye; 10-06-2018 at 08:45 PM.
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10-06-2018, 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by boxcar
Despicable and Slimy is when a nominee is brought before the Senate and the dimwits perpetrate wholesale character assassination upon that person for purely political reasons, and that person's heretofore impeccable reputation and his family's is ruined forever. No one has a moral right to do that. But under the Law of the Land, the Senate does have the legal right to "advise or consent" on judicial nominees OR NOT.
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Originally Posted by boxcar
Got a bad case of the blahs today, huh? Hate to tell you this but it's going to get worse for you in about 30 minutes or so. |
Some of us have to work for a living, Boxcar.
But I do have time for a couple of quick comments.
First, am I supposed to be impressed by your overconfident dismissals of one side on an issue that I know intelligent and knowledgeable people continue to disagree about? Drop the pontificating Grandpa act. it's tired.
Second, after your definitive pronouncement on what people do and do not have a moral right to do, you attempt to slyly change the subject by insisting that under the Law of the Land, the Senate does have the legal right to "advise or consent" on judicial nominees OR NOT.
Two points here:
1) Surely you are aware that
In response to Republican promises to refuse to consider any Supreme Court nominee this year, 356 law professors and legal scholars have written a letter to the Senate leadership of both parties urging them “to fulfill your constitutional duty to give President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a prompt and fair hearing and a timely vote.”
The professors, including some of the top constitutional experts in the country, such as Charles Ogletree, Kenji Yoshino, and Laurence Tribe, counter arguments made by Republican senators that the Senate has no obligation to consider the president’s nominee in an election year. The professors declare that,
“This preemptive abdication of duty is contrary to the process the framers envisioned in Article II, and threatens to diminish the integrity of our democratic institutions and the functioning of our constitutional government.
Your interpretation of the relevant single sentence in the US Constitution, considered in complete isolation from its surrounding context - which violates one of the most basic canons for the proper interpretation of legal texts - is questionable at best. So spare me Chuck Grassley's biased interpretation of it, backed up with your carefully chosen links to popular magazines citing 'scholars' from the Cato Institute.
Further, the fact that there are no provisions in the Constitution for addressing malfeasance at the level of the entire Senate doesn't automatically make whatever the Senate chooses to do legal and acceptable.
2) Even if I grant, for the sake of argument that there are no legal prohibitions against the Senate acting in the way it has of late, under McConnell's leadership, this would not undermine my original point that the Repugs in the Senate have engaged in immoral tactics at least as much as the Dim's have. As a result, both sides have forfeited any entitlement to cast moral censure on the other. This was my point all along. Your attempt to mischaracterize my point as a legal claim does not change that.
So put your copy of the US Constitution back into the bib pocket on your overalls and quit pretending to be a Constitutional scholar - you clearly are not.
And while you are at it, quit trying to be the fountain of moral wisdom that we all look to. You're not very convincing at that either.
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