Elections Matter~

[Cha]

Oliver Willis ?@owillis
Elections matter
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Sahil Kapur
✔ ?@sahilkapur
HILLARY CLINTON: “Republicans…who are calling for Justice Scalia's seat to remain vacant dishonor our Constitution.”
3:12 PM - 13 Feb 2016
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In death, Justice Scalia saves a planet


Sunny Hundal ?@sunny_hundal
In death, Justice Scalia saves a planet http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/how-scalias-death-will-change-everything.html …
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TheObamaDiary.com ?@TheObamaDiary
The President:

“I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor - in due time.”

Yes.
3:57 PM - 13 Feb 2016
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http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/13/president-delivers-statement-on-passing-of-supreme-court-justice-scalia/

[font color=blue]Hillary's Group~Mahalo~[/font]

[sheshe2]

1. Yes, I am sorry the man died. I will not miss him Cha.

He was a pustulous boil on humanity. A very ugly man.

In death, Justice Scalia saves a planet http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/how-scalias-death-will-change-everything.html …
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I want another woman! They rock.

Tammy Duckworth comes to mind.

[Cha]

2. Incredible turn of events, she! I had no idea President Obama's Climate Change Accomplishments

were so in the balance like this.

Tammy Duckworth, Loretta Lynch or even Eric Holder.. so many excellent choices for President Obama.

Mahalo she~Here's to the President getting who he wants.

[sheshe2]

3. Yes.

Eric!!!!! and Loretta as well!!!!!

Ef him for trying to destroy our planet. He was a Koch dream come true.


Go Pres O~

[Cha]

4. It's amazing to me how someone like scalia gets to be against Everything that's

good and true.

A Supreme Court Justice for cripes sake!


TheObamaDiary.com ?@TheObamaDiary
Lindsey Graham says the President has to choose a consensus successor to Scalia, "maybe a guy like Orrin Hatch".
4:02 PM - 13 Feb 2016
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http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/13/president-delivers-statement-on-passing-of-supreme-court-justice-scalia/

she~

[Tommy2Tone]

9. Orrin Hatch?

I'm sure Lindsey would but it's not his call, thank the Gods.

[Cha]

10. No, not his call.. but thanks for weighing in, senator.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. I definitely will NOT miss him. I feel for his family, but I hope they know how many families

his votes have harmed throughout his LONG career.

If McChin fights President Obama all the way, he shouldn't forget that there are about 2 1/2 weeks that President Obama will preside over a new Senate in January 2017. A LOT can happen in 2 1/2 weeks.

That's why this shit just got real.

[Cha]

6. Scalia is gone and this says it just saved our Planet.. unreal how brilliant the Planet's

Karma is right now, BlueCali!


Sunny Hundal ?@sunny_hundal
In death, Justice Scalia saves a planet http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/how-scalias-death-will-change-everything.html …
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Thank you.

[BlueCaliDem]

7. Mother Earth speaks loudly! This is good news, Cha. Now President Obama's Clean Power Plan

will survive! WOOOHOOOOO!

[Cha]

12. Incredible, BlueCali! I just read that reagan appointed scalia during his final years in office..

TheObamaDiary.com ?@TheObamaDiary
Eric?
Yes Barack?
You busy the next 20 years or so?
Why?
Oh, just thinking......
12:51 PM - 13 Feb 2016
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:hatip:http://theobamadiary.com/2016/02/13/wow-5/

[sheshe2]

44. Yes she does~

and awesome to behold.

[Tarheel_Dem]

8. Yes They Do!

[Cha]

13. I so hope President Obama gets to have his nominee for SCOTUS, Tarheel!

[Princess Turandot]

11. Three beauties! And wouldn't it be nice if...

the folks who were condemning PBO's appointments, Associate Justice Sotomayor and Associate Justice Kagan, would admit how friggin' wrong they were. And that the liberal anchor on the court for years now was put on it by someone named Clinton. (BTW Kagan went to my highschool!)

[Cha]

19. they'll never admit it, Princess Turandot... they live to

complain and make the worst spin possible on anything.

Thank you for the reminder that President Clinton appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

[Sancho]

14. Hillary is ready!!! Bernie is NOT ready!!!

One of the biggest duties and choices is nominating the SC justices. Obama has been brilliant, and the next President may nominate several more - so the President has to pick with subtle intelligence - so that the candidate can get through, but protect progressive values. Who can read into the opinions and values of legal decisions? Who has time to "find someone" to advise them on something they don't understand and have never studied?

Hillary is not only a trained lawyer, but she has more legal experience and track record than Obama!! She has been there, written scholarly legal articles, and gone from the front lines protecting children to the insider board rooms. She knows how the system works. Hillary also taught law school (like Obama), but NO RECENT CANDIDATE for President has a better legal understanding of the practical consequences of the SC than Hillary Clinton!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton

Rodham then entered Yale Law School. There she served on the editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.[37] During her second year, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center,[38] learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973).[39][40] She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale–New Haven Hospital[39] and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free legal advice for the poor.[38] In the summer of 1970 she was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. There she researched migrant workers' problems in housing, sanitation, health and education.[41] Edelman later became a significant mentor.[42] Rodham was recruited by political advisor Anne Wexler to work on the 1970 campaign of Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate Joseph Duffey, with Rodham later crediting Wexler with providing her first job in politics.[43]
In the late spring of 1971 she began dating Bill Clinton, also a law student at Yale. That summer she interned at the Oakland, California, law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein.[44] The firm was well known for its support of constitutional rights, civil liberties, and radical causes (two of its four partners were current or former Communist Party members);[44] Rodham worked on child custody and other cases.[nb 3] Clinton canceled his original summer plans in order to live with her in California;[48] the couple continued living together in New Haven when they returned to law school.[45] The following summer, Rodham and Clinton campaigned in Texas for unsuccessful 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.[49] She received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973,[30] having stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton.[50] He first proposed marriage to her following graduation but she declined, uncertain if she wanted to tie her future to his.[50]
Rodham began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.[51] Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973.[52] Discussing the new children's rights movement, it stated that "child citizens" were "powerless individuals"[53] and argued that children should not be considered equally incompetent from birth to attaining legal age, but that instead courts should presume competence except when there is evidence otherwise, on a case-by-case basis.[54] The article became frequently cited in the field.[55]

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/about/bio/

After college, Hillary enrolled in Yale Law School, where she was one of just 27 women in her graduating class. While attending Yale, Hillary began dating one of her classmates, Bill Clinton.

After law school, Hillary didn’t join a big law firm in Washington or New York. Instead, she went to work for the Children’s Defense Fund, going door-to-door in New Bedford, Massachusetts, gathering stories about the lack of schooling for children with disabilities. These testimonials contributed to the passage of historic legislation that required the state to provide quality education for students with disabilities.

Hillary for America

This commitment to public service and fighting for others—especially children and families—has stayed with her throughout her life.

After serving as a lawyer for the congressional committee investigating President Nixon, she moved to Arkansas where she taught law and ran legal clinics representing disenfranchised people. She co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, one of the state’s first child advocacy groups.

[Amimnoch]

15. The Clintons have already proven very capable of making the right picks.

At the end of the day, who is the one that is most likely to get a good Senate confirmation?

Hillary, who has been endorsed by 39 Senators.

Bernie Sanders, who despite having actually been a life long politician with more than half of it IN congress for the 2nd smallest populated state in the country, 2nd most homogeneous state in the US, has only been able to drum up a single endorsement from his own work place in the party he has conveniently decided to join in the 11th hour?

Hmmm, which one indeed will get us a SCOTUS that will progress this country forward?

[Cha]

21. Good point, Amimnoch..

Thank you~!

[Coolest Ranger]

16. How much you want to bet

that the obstructionist Republican Senate will not let him get his choice. President Obama has the opportunity to help balance the court now and if you don't have reason to vote democratic now with 3 more justices set to retire I don't know if that should not motivate you.

[Cha]

23. I just hope by some miracle that President Obama is able to get his nom through the

Senate, Coolest!

[sheshe2]

43. Hey CR~

I kinda like this~

http://www.democraticunderground.com/110232882

[Coolest Ranger]

45. I gave it a rec too

[BooScout]

17. The Short List Last time included...

Diane Pamela Wood
Merrick Garland
Sidley Runyan Thomas
Leah Ward Sears
Jennifer Granholm
Janet Napolitano

[Cha]

24. I wonder if it will include Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder this time, Boo?

How life changes on a dime..

The immediate and easily foreseeable impact is staggering. Last week, the Supreme Court issued a stay delaying the implementation of Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The stay indicated that a majority of the justices foresee a reasonably high likelihood that they would ultimately strike down Obama’s plan, which could jeopardize the Paris climate agreement and leave greenhouse gasses unchecked. Without Scalia on the Court, the odds of this drop to virtually zero. The challenge is set to be decided by a D.C. Circuit panel composed of a majority of Democratic appointees, which will almost certainly uphold the regulations. If the plan is upheld, it would require a majority of the Court to strike it down. With the Court now tied 4-4, such a ruling now seems nearly impossible.

Thank you!

[still_one]

18. The Ralph Nader argument that there is no difference between the two parties has been proven WRONG,

time and again.

Just looking at appointments made by Democratic Presidents verses republican ones in the last 40 plus years have squashed that myth.

The demographics are on our side, from gender, to ethnic heritage, and they will be out in force for the 2016 election.

[Cha]

27. Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders argument. Wrong.

"The immediate and easily foreseeable impact is staggering. Last week, the Supreme Court issued a stay delaying the implementation of Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The stay indicated that a majority of the justices foresee a reasonably high likelihood that they would ultimately strike down Obama’s plan, which could jeopardize the Paris climate agreement and leave greenhouse gasses unchecked. Without Scalia on the Court, the odds of this drop to virtually zero. The challenge is set to be decided by a D.C. Circuit panel composed of a majority of Democratic appointees, which will almost certainly uphold the regulations. If the plan is upheld, it would require a majority of the Court to strike it down. With the Court now tied 4-4, such a ruling now seems nearly impossible".[/]

Look at how life changed on a dime for us now because this repub appointed justice has died.

Yes, I think this will bring Democrats out to vote even more in November.

[still_one]

29. wow Cha, that really says it all

[Starry Messenger]

20. They absolutely do.

The cases that Scalia had hanging in the balance were all about to rip key rights from important big D and little d Democratic forces.

Anyone who says the Supreme Court doesn't matter to their political calculations is simply a very privileged person.

[Cha]

39. It's just incredible good fortunate for our Earth and country.

Mahalo Starry!

[Politicub]

22. Damn right

So much hinges on this fight. And make no mistake, it will be an epic battle right now.

There is only one person I trust who can win the general. And her initials aren't B.S.

[Cha]

30. Epic battle.. right, Politicub... we just have the bare rumblings now.

[mcar]

25. K&R

[Cha]

31. ..

thank you!

[Kath1]

26. Beautiful, Cha!

This is one of the reasons we elected President Obama.

I think it is poetic justice that he will get another SC nomination during his last year in office.

[Cha]

32. Aloha Kath and Happy Sunday!

Can you believe it.. now we have more of a chance for our Planet and other progressive values.

Poetic Justice is an excellent way to put it.

Mahalo~

[treestar]

28. That's so interesting

The fate of the world depends on things like this. Maybe God struck him down at this time for a reason.

Cha.

[Cha]

34. We've had to endure Clarence Thomas for just such a reason... it's our turn now.

treestar~Mahalo!

[yallerdawg]

33. The average confirmation period in modern times is 2-3 months?

The notion of nullifying the last two presidential elections by refusing to even consider court appointment by Obama for a year is enraging!

Republicans make me physically ill. In more ways than one.

[Cha]

35. They're crazy if they think President Obama is going to pay any attention to them.

He hasn't been a lame duck and he will continue to not be.

Thank you, yallerdawg!

[yallerdawg]

36. Thank you, Cha!

Your persistence in hammering away keeps us coming back and going on!

It's always good to know we are not alone!

[Cha]

37. Ain't that the truth!

to you yallerdawg! You're Welcome

[Gothmog]

38. Elections do matter

[Cha]

40. Yes, and we're in the middle of an urgent one right now!

[Thinkingabout]

41. The GOP wants to suppress the votes so they have come up with ID's, they like

big government if it is their issue, hate big government if it isn't, again they want to control the SC so they seek to prevent a nomination by Obama, piss poor reasons by piss poor republicans.

[Cha]

42. Thank you, Thinkingabout!

We'll see what happens.