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Looks like Trump might nominate Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton, and Mitch Mcconnell is gonna jam it through. I think America is toast.



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Republicans are already making me sick.



dharh said:
Looks like Trump might nominate Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton, and Mitch Mcconnell is gonna jam it through. I think America is toast.

Didn't Cruz very recently state he'd never accept a Supreme Court position?



dharh said:
Looks like Trump might nominate Ted Cruz or Tom Cotton, and Mitch Mcconnell is gonna jam it through. I think America is toast.

I have to imagine that there would be a solid handful of Red Senators who would say no on that one...



R.I.P. American Democracy.

Moscow Mitch will ram a new appointee through. Republicans will hold the Senate and block all new legislation. Any old legislation they don't like will be struck down as "unconstitutional".



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Damn guys, no need to attack conservatives with your conspiracy theories about who Trump is going to appoint.

It's gonna be Amy Coney Barrett. A nice, Catholic, conservative woman.



EDIT: Here's a link:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/18/replacing-ruth-bader-ginsburg-list-starts-amy-coney-barrett/2669382002/

Last edited by SnesTea - on 18 September 2020

No es bueno.



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If Republicans do end up filling this seat, I hope Democrats respond in kind with adding more justices to the court should they gain power.



Torillian said:
haxxiy said:

They are the minority in the Senate then and now. There's literally nothing to be done unles enough Repubs join them to leave the Senate without the required quorum.

Anyway, I don't think the seat will be filled before the lame duck period, in an atempt to electorally protect endangered Repub senators.

Ah, I hadn't read into it and was hopeful that the system required both houses of congress. Sigh. Well here's hoping they can't get somethin together before the election. 

The new Congress/president wouldn’t be sat until January... so they technically have until then to push a nominee through... I expect a lame duck confirmation will happen sometime in December while republicans still control the senate and the presidency (I expect they will lose both in November...)



Snesboy said:

Damn guys, no need to attack conservatives with your conspiracy theories about who Trump is going to appoint.

It's gonna be Amy Coney Barrett. A nice, Catholic, conservative woman.



EDIT: Here's a link:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/18/replacing-ruth-bader-ginsburg-list-starts-amy-coney-barrett/2669382002/

"Conspiracy Theories"

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/09/911194201/trump-adds-ted-cruz-tom-cotton-to-list-of-potential-scotus-picks

Trump Adds Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton To List Of Potential Supreme Court Picks