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Hoo05Dave

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Stepping back and looking at where we're headed... let's say Kavanaugh fail


fails, and democrats take the Senate. There are still two years left of Trump (ignoring the pie in the sky hopes of his removal from office). I can't see any nomination thereafter getting through. Signs were printed up with "stop ______" to preemptively set up protests regardless of the selection. Even if a democrat felt a nomination should go through, they'd be destroyed after casting a vote in favor.

So are we looking at a future where no justice will be appointed to the SCOTUS unless a party controls the presidency & Senate?

Seems that would fundamentally break the judicial branch.

Similar to Reid killing the filibuster for federal courts, and republicans expanding it for the Supreme Court, the months long stall of Garland looks like the pretext that will be used to block anyone when the Senate majority is of the opposition.




Posted: 09/17/2018 at 7:28PM



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