I disagree. They're not going to care how a nomination will effect the presidential race, they want a justice who will decide the race. No matter who is declared winner on election night or week, the other side will sue, and it will go all the way to the supreme court, and a third seat guaranteed to be loyal to Trump will decide in his favor, no question. A vacant supreme court seat isn't an election issue, its the election.
Ummm...maybe McConnell and the Republican party for doing basically that 4 years ago with Obama's nominee.
They can spite nominate in November after losing, but if Democrats take the senate and presidency, they'll unilaterally rip that person out of the court. If Republicans keep the senate, it's not going to make a big difference who wins the presidency (this is generally true, I feel, not just on the Supreme Court seat).
So I'm right and the Left and Right are no better than one another? Gotcha.
When do senators change if they lose their seats? I mean if they change when the president does then trump can do that, if its sooner then it would be harder. Although if republicans want to ram a supreme court justice through, there is literally nothing anyone can do to stop them unless some of them vote against it.
Then they have plenty of time to shove someone through even if they lose badly.
Certainly doesn't seem like his first instinct considering that he just tweeted that they should rush it through.
Once you start loading the courts, where does it stop? Democrats expand it to 15 and add a bunch of progressive justices. 8 years later, Republicans expand it to 99 and fill it with their cronies. That cat doesn't ever go back in its bag.
It certainly does not, but I’ve little respect for the Supreme Court to begin with given it is a purely undemocratic institution. These are the realistic options. Which is to say, every option available is terrible and we are teetering on the brink and have been for at least a decade.
You load it but you use the power that give you to make future loading impossible. It'd be stupid no to do it anyway, right now the party that consistently get the minority vote has all the power because they constantly ignore precedent and un written rule. The Dem can take the high road all they want, but that just mean the Rep will keep in power even after losing elections and popular vote.
I think this vacancy sets the stage for this being the last presidential election in America. Trump will stack the court with a loyalist, sue to stop the election, win, declare himself the president, ask for a 3rd term, get it, ask for a 4th, get it, appoint his own replacement, etc...
It is extremely odd that she did not retire in 2012 or so.
I think we'll see the "red mirage" : Trump will win on election night. If he gets his pick, he will block new vote counting after election night, the court will back him (they may do so without another pick) and that will be that. I cannot believe he'd try to serve a 3rd term even if young enough to do so.
If he does, again, he's just energized the Left that I think is currently despondent.
Trump never wanted to be president, not really. Its a low paying government job that's long hours and requires a lot of reading. He hates that shit.
Link about Barr? I have heard there has been review of the Insurrection Act and it might be appropriate. We'll see.
What you're talking about is a coup. You're taking about the President of the United States shutting down the election and the Supreme Court backing him. And you're worried the Left with freak out? THEY SHOULD!
Why not just do away with the election?
