Continuing the theme of 2020 being a kick in the teeth, my dog Lori died this morning. It was one of those pet deaths that was both unexpected and entirely unsurprising. She was an old lady of 15: blind, one eyed (thanks to a corneal ulcer that wouldn’t heal when she was 13), partly deaf, arthritic, had cushing’s…
Was the procedure the get a flu shot at CVS any different than in previous years? I usually get mine at Walgreens and had wondered if they were doing anything different this year (such as needing to call ahead) because of COVID.
Even the article you’re using as a rebuttal points out that the anger over her decision not to retire is fair. Pointing out that the entire system is failing and that it is unfair for Ginsberg to carry it all on her shoulders dismisses the reality that part of the responsibility of being one of the 9 most powerful…
People who bring up Merrick Garland are missing the point. Obama got 2 SCOTUS nominees through during his time in office. How? Because Justice Stevens and Justice Souter, like many justices before them, made a point to retire at a time when they knew their replacement could get through a confirmation process smoothly.…
Unfortunately 2018 was always going to be a shit year for the Senate. It was the worst Senate map for Democrats in decades. We had to defend twice as many seats as they did, and most of the seats they were defending were safe seats while we were defending 8 seats in states Trump won in 2016. It’s a credit to the Blue…
Pence is actually the first VP to be involved with cloture motions, that may be you didn’t turn much up. Before the filibuster was ended for all executive branch nominees, nearly every cloture vote required 60 votes which meant that the VP couldn’t be a deciding factor since they can only be involved when there’s a…
The Republicans can confirm with 50 votes, but they need 51 votes for cloture, so Democrats could block the vote with 3 Republican flips.
She only voted against Kavanaugh though because it was a sure thing that he was getting the nomination. No subtance.
They could light themselves on fire on the capital steps and still not stop a conservative justice replacing RBG if the GOP has the votes. This isn’t the movies where there is a solution to every problem hidden somewhere in the rule book. The only thing they can do is try to shame their Republican colleagues into…
“I have trouble believing Grassley or Murkowski really meant it. They thought this would never come up and they could score free reasonableness points.”
“Even if she retired we would still have a Republican controlled Supreme Court, we just wouldn’t be looking at going down 6-3.”
Even if Democrats take back the Senates, Republicans will have two months to install the new justice of their choice. It’s not Democrats who will have to tell Trump to fuck off, it’s Senate Republicans who will have to.
If Trump nominated someone dangerously unqualified or otherwise controversial MAYBE, but do you honestly think those senators would vote against a Republican SCOTUS nominee in the mold of Gorsuch on principle? Especially if it isn’t clear that voting against such a nominee will hurt their electoral chances?
“Same for John Lewis in Congress.
“No way. She was better than anyone we would’ve gotten through even then.”
A sure no? Seriously?
Also let’s end lifetime appointments. Letting justices decide when they want retire if they’re over 75 is such a terrible fucking idea. It lets them entertain fantasies that they can live forever and thus are not morally obligated responsible to consider the consequences of dying at the worst time to ensure that…
Republicans didn’t take the Senate until January 2015. She had 6 fucking years to retire under Obama and chose not to.
I’ve been screaming about this for the last year. I loved RBG. She was the best justice on the court in a generation, but her stubbornness and pride have put us in this horrific situation. There was no shortage of Op-Eds in 2009-2014, plus god only knows how many people behind the scenes urging her to retire while…
“Yeah if the Dems don’t refuse to seat anyone using the same argument the Republicans did then they don’t deserve to be in power. No high road bullshit this time.”
