You mean diluting the impact of the two Russian Justices? ** -- WarmHoo 08/14/2020 10:55AM
" ** -- psychobilly 08/13/2020 2:49PM
Warning: "Packing" jokes will be immediately Daisy Cut! ** -- Hoogle.com 08/13/2020 1:54PM
Justice Kavanaugh on Line 1, something about "boofing". ** -- Maupin233 08/13/2020 4:17PM
Yeah, but were they boffing? :-) ** -- jdubforwahoowa 08/14/2020 09:31AM
No judge packing! ** -- hokie in cville 08/13/2020 3:44PM
She came in 15th place in the primary. She is useless. ** -- ryno hoo 08/13/2020 1:34PM
Pence bailed so he wouldn't be beaten in his own state. LOL ** -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 3:13PM
He was a failed one-term governor. -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 3:23PM
You may need some perspective, read this: -- Chuck Taylor 08/13/2020 1:50PM
Facts don’t impress him. ** -- SixerHoo 08/13/2020 1:59PM
Her ratings were terrible. She's unbelievably nasty. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:35PM
HUH? -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 1:42PM
Dems must have thought so as she dropped out the same time as Sestak -- ryno hoo 08/13/2020 1:39PM
Sleestack? -- Plano Hoo 08/13/2020 1:59PM
Sleestak lightning -- Hoodeac 08/13/2020 4:14PM
Whatever happened to that guy? ** -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 3:11PM
She seems to have landed in a pretty good spot for a -- SixerHoo 08/13/2020 1:51PM
I think the reaction we've seen to the Harris selection is very telling -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 2:02PM
Yep. And a primary also-ran getting chosen as Veep? Why that has never -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:54PM
She also had the inherit advantage of being able to check a certain box -- Tuckahokie 08/13/2020 1:59PM
I think it was extremely important to check that box. I think all the -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 2:04PM
Abrams is demanding a recount of Harris' selection. ** -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 3:24PM
Stacey may be looking at a cabinet level job in the Biden WH...HHS maybe? ** -- Tuckahokie 08/13/2020 2:05PM
Yes. She was a close friend of Beau's. ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 2:01PM
Beau was a good man...probably had a bunch of friends ** -- Tuckahokie 08/13/2020 2:03PM
Looks like she made the right call. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:47PM
Mitch McConnell fucked over the judicial process -- WahooMatt05 08/13/2020 1:21PM
"It's just politics". K. Harris ** -- Hoogle.com 08/13/2020 1:56PM
Robert Bork ** -- MasterRusty 08/13/2020 1:26PM
Saturday Night Massacre. Nixon co-conspirator. ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 1:57PM
Richardson and Ruckelshaus asked him to mind the store at DOJ after they -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 2:39PM
That's true. ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 2:51PM
That logic is priceless. Those guys quit so that Bork could do what they -- Plano Hoo 08/13/2020 2:45PM
They had promised congressional committees that they would not fire -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 3:08PM
Cox ** -- Plano Hoo 08/13/2020 4:55PM
Correct. Archibald Cox, not Jaworski. -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 5:26PM
I like to think Bork won the "stupid prize," since that term is fashionable ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 2:52PM
He rolled the dice that he would be put in charge and that the shit -- Plano Hoo 08/13/2020 2:53PM
Umm. he got a hearing ** -- Plano Hoo 08/13/2020 1:47PM
Bork? Were you even alive then or did you hear about it on Fox News? ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:33PM
Was unqualified and a conservative replaced him via the same POTUS. So, no. ** -- WahooMatt05 08/13/2020 1:27PM
He was a direct threat to "Big Abortion" -- MasterRusty 08/13/2020 1:44PM
And was involved in the Saturday Night Massacre... ** -- FxHoo 08/13/2020 2:04PM
Unqualified? ** -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 1:30PM
Right wing equivalent of Stephen Reinhardt. -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 2:16PM
Reagan and everyone else most certainly thought he would be confirmed. -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 2:41PM
"Borking," the term, was merely a loser's plaintive cry. ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 2:58PM
Reagan likely had Alzheimers at that point, so maybe he actually did. -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 2:50PM
Reagan did not have Alzheimer's in office. -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 3:17PM
LOL, you've become one of the more fundamentally dishonest posters here. -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 3:28PM
An absolute lunatic. ** -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 1:44PM
Per the Senate. Admittedly it’s before my time and I’m too lazy to research ** -- WahooMatt05 08/13/2020 1:37PM
DC Circuit Judge, Acting Attorney General, Solicitor General, Yale prof. -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 3:19PM
Two words: Merrick Garland. So fuck you and all your Trumpist buddies. ** -- WaxHoo 08/13/2020 1:16PM
I'm open to a three way with Charlize Theron and Scarlett Johansen -- Plano Hoo 08/13/2020 1:09PM
It's been awhile, but overrated as I recall. ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 2:07PM
I'll allow it ** -- CAVern 08/13/2020 1:53PM
Charlize is one very hot African-American ** -- Tuckahokie 08/13/2020 1:11PM
After McConnell's BS, why are you complaining? How many times did I say ... -- Blah 08/13/2020 1:08PM
Just wait until President Biden starts issuing executive orders. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:12PM
We'll get to bitch like you guys do currently ** -- Tuckahokie 08/13/2020 1:14PM
Not if the Executive Order disallows it. -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 2:31PM
You're probably right. In all fairness, I haven't looked much into it. ** -- Blah 08/13/2020 3:14PM
I don't really argue about executive orders, etc.. That can be ... -- Blah 08/13/2020 1:20PM
I agree with everything, except possibly the media. they really might be -- CAVern 08/13/2020 1:59PM
Criticizing the media is fair game, but don't call them the enemy ... -- Blah 08/13/2020 3:09PM
For my money, the media is why we only have crap candidates for office ** -- CAVern 08/13/2020 3:17PM
Worse ** -- WaxHoo 08/13/2020 1:16PM
You miss the point, but intentionally. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:15PM
That’s the moderate common sense position ** -- BonsackHoo 08/13/2020 12:55PM
It actually is, the problem is that neither party trust the other party to -- 111Balz 08/13/2020 1:14PM
Shameless to complain about anything related to judges after you guys -- TomGlansAski 08/13/2020 12:49PM
I'll ask again ... what is the difference between voting somebody down and -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 12:54PM
Wow came back to lots and lots of replies ... poor choice of language but -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 2:20PM
You really seem to be missing the mark by miles. The point isn't that -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 3:04PM
No, it is not at all. Not even a little. Refusing to even consider -- hoolstoptheheels 08/13/2020 2:35PM
I guess I just don't see it that way - I see it as the legislative -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 3:06PM
I feel like that all happened when you still identified as a Republican -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 1:30PM
Dude. You’re smarter than that. ** -- SchmHoo 08/13/2020 1:26PM
One follows the process outlined by the constitution and one does not. -- BocaHoo91 08/13/2020 1:25PM
Not only that, but Garland WAS a fucking consensus type nominee. ** -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 1:45PM
Exactly, if Obama is guilty of anything it's being too nice and negotiating -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 1:59PM
Seriously??? ** -- WaxHoo 08/13/2020 1:17PM
One follows the way the Constitution is supposed to work. One doesn’t ** -- WahooMatt05 08/13/2020 1:05PM
All the difference in the world my man. Mitch literally refused to -- hoolstoptheheels 08/13/2020 1:03PM
Ah, the Biden Rule! Thanks, Joe! ** -- JMHoo 08/13/2020 1:20PM
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are making -- hoolstoptheheels 08/13/2020 1:25PM
Not only that, but the "talk" was a hypothetical should someone resign -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 4:34PM
What a bunch of fucking nonsense. ** -- WahooRQ 08/13/2020 1:03PM
The intent of the Constitution was that a President would act -- HoosWillWin 08/13/2020 1:01PM
Oh, and by the way, IMO, the Dems are owed a justice. If the Dems -- HoosWillWin 08/13/2020 1:08PM
I heard that Trump, in order to improve teamwork and consensus, had -- TomGlansAski 08/13/2020 1:12PM
PJ will be pissed. ** -- SixerHoo 08/13/2020 1:48PM
Well, up until this election Trump is trying to obstruct. -- hoolstoptheheels 08/13/2020 1:06PM
This is flawed on many levels. For starters, you assume a reasonable -- TomGlansAski 08/13/2020 1:00PM
A position he has made it clear he will not observe if RBG passes away -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 1:02PM
We'll need to do A Weekend at Ruth's. ** -- HoosWillWin 08/13/2020 2:09PM
Yeah, it’s crystal clear he is fucking shameless -- WahooMatt05 08/13/2020 1:13PM
Based on the principle of flexible principles ** -- TomGlansAski 08/13/2020 1:08PM
He nominated a moderate...I guess Mitch would have voted on Gorsuch -- BonsackHoo 08/13/2020 12:56PM
Completely besides the point. I don’t care if the pick was -- hoolstoptheheels 08/13/2020 1:09PM
This ^^^ Mitch and the GOP became traitors to the Constitution. ** -- graycalhoo 08/13/2020 1:01PM
That's old news dude. And being open to discussion about changing the size -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 12:47PM
But it was OK when Mitch stole a SCOTUS seat, right? ** -- SixerHoo 08/13/2020 12:47PM
Mitch packed that sucker already. Dems turn. ** -- Shenhoo 08/13/2020 12:39PM
We should now take a bipartisan approach: both liberal and moderate dems ** -- TomGlansAski 08/13/2020 12:51PM
There are a few things that I think could actually fracture the country -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 12:38PM
Congress needs to do its job. SC shouldn't be this important -- Capital City Hoo 08/13/2020 1:19PM
Agree for the most part. But an amendment to impose -- SixerHoo 08/13/2020 12:55PM
To be clear, I don't support "packing" the court either -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 12:45PM
In fairness, you could end up with say a 9-8 split just as easily. My -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 12:55PM
It could definitely happen, but I don think just as easily -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 1:10PM
If you're saying we should give each Court of Appeals judge a number and by -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 12:48PM
I think it is pressing when you have half the country holding their breath -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 12:54PM
I think you can make that case, but it would need to be done in a -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 12:56PM
Of course -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 12:58PM
That doesn't seem to be the spirit of what Kamala Harris is/was suggesting. -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 1:05PM
She said she's open to the conversation about increasing the number -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 1:20PM
We don't (necessarily) need to up it. But you do know that the Constitution -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 12:39PM
I do ... I'm saying this violates the spirit of checks and balances more -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 12:45PM
There is no such thing as a “spirit of the law” or norms. Trump proves that ** -- BonsackHoo 08/13/2020 12:58PM
Or checks and balances anymore, tbh -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 1:06PM
Well that's one reason I wouldn't want to do it. But it would require -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 12:50PM
I don't see why adding justices would be worse than refusing to hold -- VAGentleman05 08/13/2020 12:39PM
I must be missing where in my post I argued that it was a good idea to do -- CharlestonSC 08/13/2020 12:46PM
Was it written in stone that he would be voted down? ** -- FxHoo 08/13/2020 1:02PM
IMO, it was a huge violation of the "spirit of checks and balances" -- VAGentleman05 08/13/2020 12:53PM
If you think that was so terrible why would you want to have something -- HokieDan95 08/13/2020 12:46PM
It wouldn't be similar at all. It would require an act of Congress. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 12:51PM
Take that up with vagent ** -- HokieDan95 08/13/2020 12:53PM
See, I actually thought that in violation of the Judiciary Act of 1869, -- Seattle .Hoo 08/13/2020 12:42PM
Bingo. ** -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 12:42PM
Bingo. ** -- Hoobedoobedoo 08/13/2020 12:42PM
Good. There's no reason it has to be 9 justices forever -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 12:38PM
Anything north of 15 seems like it would be too cumbersome -- Hoodeac 08/13/2020 1:25PM
Perhaps. I just think there is often too much riding on whether one Justic -- wahoo138 08/13/2020 1:52PM