[quote=bearishgurl][quote=SK in CV][quote=bearishgurl]If, as you say, Obama will replace Scalia (and possibly Ginsburg), what are you worried about, SK? If Ginsburg is worried about who will replace her, then why doesn’t she just retire now? (My understanding is that she was in remission from Stage 1 panc after undergoing the Whipple procedure over 6 years ago but I understand the odds). She is very, very lucky to have caught it when she did, having been diagnosed with colon cancer (stage 2) nearly ten years before that where she had part of her colon removed. So I agree that Justice Ginsburg may not last thru January 2021.
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Jesus fucking Christ. Do you not pay attention to what’s going on in the world? The racist republicans in control of the US Senate, have decided on a new rule, that has never existed before, that black presidents in the final year of their terms, can’t get a hearing on a supreme court justice.
The only way that Obama will get an opportunity to get a vote on a SC nomination is if Democrats take back control of the Senate. New senators will take office before Obama leaves office. He’ll have about 3 weeks to confirm a justice. If Trump wins (highly unlikely, unless there are way too many women like you casting vile votes), AND dems take back the Senate, then RBG will retire immediately. If Clinton wins, she’ll wait until Clinton is inaugurated. If Trump wins and Dems don’t take back the senate, women are fucked. Not maybe. That’s an absolute.
You might remember there was a douchebag hypocrite SC justice by the name of Antonin Scalia. He suddenly died, at the age of 79. Both Breyer and Kennedy, though neither are burdened with the douchebag disease, could similarly die unexpectedly. The risk is just too great to take the chance and leave it to a disgusting man like Trump.
If you cared about women, you could never vote for Trump. End of story.[/quote]SK, what you’re saying here isn’t what 32-year veteran of the senate and current Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated in this great and informative CNN interview of June 2. Essentially, he stated that NO supreme court justice vacancies had been filled during an election year for the past 80 years. He also stated that a supreme court nominee has not been confirmed by the opposite party in an election year since 1888 and no US senate is ever going to confirm a SC nominee of a president of an opposite party.
That doesn’t sound like a “new rule” to me. The reason Scalia’s vacancy is not currently being filled has nothing to do with the race of the current president.
If what McConnell stated in the interview is true, then whoever is elected POTUS in 2016 will get to fill Scalia and Ginsburg’s slots next year.[/quote]
It’s not true. Mitch McConnell is a liar.
Abe Fortas was confirmed as chief justice during Lyndon Johnson’s final year in office. Homer Thornberry was confirmed as his replacement.
Benjamin Cardozo was nominated and confirmed under Herbert Hoover during his last year in office.
Mahlon Pitney was both nominated and confirmed during Howard Taft’s last year in office.
What is true, is not a single vacancy on the supreme court during the first 6 months of the final year of a presidential term has ever NOT been filled by the sitting president. The first time it’s ever happened is right now, because of a rule just invented 114 days ago by Mitch McConnell.
Again, McConnell flat out lied. He made the racist rule and then he lied about it. He’s made it pretty clear he’s comfortable with racism as part of his party’ platform. He’s continuing to support the only racist that is still a candidate. The same racist that you’re supporting.
