White House Confirms The Senate Doesn't Have Enough Time To Confirm Trump's SCOTUS Nominee Before El

[Gothmog]

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[kentuck]

1. It threatens several Republican Senators that are in close races.

They cannot afford to gamble with their voters at this time.

They will want to wait and see how the wash comes out?

[Zoonart]

2. They will dangle the carrot.

Push the plunger in the lame duck.

Trump is entirely transactional... if the horse gets the carrot before the election.... why does the religious right need to vote for him?
He would have delivered their ultimate objective and they would no longer have to vote against the best interests to achieve the court.

[uponit7771]

6. +1,

[gulliver]

12. Yep, we should just assume a Trump nominee will fill the seat.

And concentrate on the election and afterward.

[BadgerMom]

31. If they do, every Republican Senator who votes for such an illegitimate

nominee must be met at their next reelection bid with an unprecedented wave of opposing money and volunteers. We should start an organization a la Indivisible to thwart them. This isn’t petty. This is about our democracy and our Constitution and defending them.

[SlogginThroughIt]

40. They should be met with that anyway

Nothing magical is going to happen.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. No one is talking about the lame duck session, and nominating a justice then.

Even if Biden wins, McConnell and Trump have over two months to stir the pot. It's over 75 days between November 4 and January 20.

Assume nothing.

President Pennywise is at the helm.

[Klaralven]

7. The newly elected 117th Congress is seated Jan 3, 2021

Due to Thanksgiving and Christmas recesses, there are 5 weeks in session on the current calendar between 11/4/20 and 1/3/21.

The new Congress has to be formed before the inauguration of the president because they ratify and count the electoral college votes submitted by each state.

[DIVINEprividence]

4. They will try during the lame duck period

Winning isn’t enough. We need a landslide. This is going to be rocket fuel for Dem turnout. Any move they make after that will be seen as illegitimate giving Democrats political cover to pack the courts

[Generic Brad]

13. Yep. They will try to burn the place down if they become lame ducks.

We've seen them do things like that in Wisconsin and a few other states. The playbook was already written by the Russians and executed on the state level as a run up to the possibility of them losing power at the national level.

[onetexan]

28. If they try during lame duck Dems. & MSM, must do whatever they can to dig up dirt on these

candidates to stall till Biden is sworn in. We must not let this happen!!

[Mike 03]

5. I think this is good news, relatively speaking.

At least we can focus on the election, and with so much at stake, it could help mobilize people, hopefully more of ours than theirs.

Just psychologically, ramming a justice through now would be so distracting and crippling.

Also, a lame-duck confirmation is just an unprecedented disgrace, and maybe we can undo it assuming we win. Or maybe post-election some of the GOP will lose the will to fight so hard.

[ananda]

22. Agree.

We have to get the job done, as RBG advised.

[groundloop]

38. True on all counts, but Moscow Mitch cares about none of that

The big prize for GOPers is absolute control of the Supreme Court, all norms or rules (even Moscow Mitch's own made-up rules) be damned. They'll gladly take the heat for a few weeks if it means capturing the Supreme Court.

And what's even worse is that they'll spend precious time on this rather than doing anything to help Americans through the pandemic.

[Iliyah]

8. Keep the eye on the prize . .

they are trying to steal the election again across board. We must come out and vote bigly.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Do not let them disarm you.

They can still go scorched earth if they lose badly. But they will have to start now, which means that they will lose many of their Senate races. It's a crap shoot.

[Guilded Lilly]

10. The White House cannot be trusted.

[Renew Deal]

11. Only if they follow normal practices

They could have sham hearings and have this done in a week.

[regnaD kciN]

14. I personally wouldn't trust anything from "PoliticusUSA"...

...which seems to me little more than a Breitbart-of-the-left.

[Voltaire2]

15. So what? They have until midnight 12.31 to confirm another fascist to the court.

[marie999]

16. They will wait until the election. If the Democrats win the Senate,

the Republicans will vote for a new Justice before the end of the year.

[moose65]

18. That's the scariest thing...

And I'm pretty sure this has never happened in this country's history: a defeated president nominates a Supreme Court justice who is then confirmed by Senators who have also lost their elections. I can't wrap my head around that scenario.

[marie999]

39. Oh I think things will get a lot scarier between now and Jan 20, 2021.

[moondust]

17. "White House confirms"

Like that means anything.

[niyad]

19. It took less than an hour before dictator in chief announced otherwise.

[thesquanderer]

25. He could announce his nominee before the election, but confirmation wouldn't happen until after. n/t

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[Laha]

20. Both of them look like aliens

With human suits that don't fit properly. I'm not one to disparage the appearance of others, but with all the money and resources at their disposal I don't understand why they look so damned creepy. Especially dRumpf with his tendency for narcissistic self-exposure. Can he possibly look in a mirror and think, 'that looks good.'?

Probably a dumb question. Obviously yes.

[xxqqqzme]

29. In addition I think he looks in the

mirror and sees his 40 yr old self. He talks about seniors as if he isn't one. He is 74, obese, has a lousy diet, thinks exercise shortens his life and is getting increasingly paranoid. He thinks he has 12 years to be president? If he is this unhinged at 74, he'll be drooling in a corner by 86, if he lives that long!

[kentuck]

21. Which is it?

His tweets seem to be saying the opposite?

[llmart]

24. His tweets mean nothing.

He's a flippin' lunatic who contradicts himself ten times a day.

[SammyBrown]

23. How about a mourning period

She just passed on and thoughts of replacements abound. Empathy a little?

[xxqqqzme]

26. The average may be 70

days but I do not trust king con or moscow mitch. They will do anything to stay in power. I don't trust this announcement 'from the White House'. Lying sneaky bastards. You can bet they are working non-stop to find a way to get a nominee in Ruth Ginsberg's seat.

[SMC22307]

27. They'll dangle this opening before Roe v. Wade evangelicals...

and turnout will be through the roof. Democrats, left-leaning indies, sane Republicans, young people, POC, etc. HAVE GOT TO VOTE.

[dalton99a]

30. Trust Republicans at your peril.

[Lucinda]

32. KNR

[duhneece]

33. Then my fears are for after the election

And before January 3, 2021

[Traildogbob]

34. What if

Trump loses. Appoints a fool like Cotton, Cruz or god forbid Barr, and after Jan 2021 he gets convicted of all his shit during presidency, can his appointee be recalled?
What a shithole country. The biggest lying criminal in the country steals presidency, appoints a criminal hack like Barr to head all law enforcement, and appoints 3 justices for life, during four years of criminality. A joke to the entire world. A disgraceful ignorant nation. Yet we want to invade countries and bring them our democracy.
Murdock, you win. You fucked another country. All that money will not go with you to hell, unless it is used to stoke the flames.

[bucolic_frolic]

35. A Trump Supreme Court means NO LIVES MATTER

The end of civil rights, the Bill of Rights, regulation of air and water ... you are toast in Trump's America.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

36. Imagine if we had even 4 repub senators who said NO

even during a lame duck session, just said NO I won't vote on a new SC judge until our new president is sworn in. That MIGHT show that the repub party had a little integrity, they don't and they WON"T do it, but they should.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

37. RBG's body wasn't even cold before the WH researched whether the appointment

can be made before the election.Ted Cruz wasn't even subtle about it. He wants the seat filled by Friday -- with himself, of course.

The Repugs needed be not concerned. They still have their majority on the SCOTUS. They just want a permanent unbreakable majority for the next 30-40 years. We are so fucked as a country. All progressive programs will be eliminated (did you see how easy it was to destroy the Voting Rights Act?) and all their worst angels will be flying everywhere. We'll be a Christian nation, starting each day with a reading from the Bible and the Lord's prayer. In fact, that's the way it was when I attended Robert E.Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, in the mid-60s. We didn't go so far as to have classes on American patriotism jammed down our throats.

Remember how loudly they screamed that any replacement for Scalia had to share his judicial philosophy? Yeah, that went the way of "No appointment until after the election."

If Trump wins, we're leaving the country. I'm 71 and I don't want to spend my "Golden Years" watching my country literally be destroyed by the worst people in the world.