Did Trump know RBJ was on her death bed when he released his new list of 20 potential nominees to the court? Raising a finger to her before she died.
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You can’t ram through a constitutional amendment.
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Glad I’m old
I hope the planet hangs on long enough for me to die peacefully.
I’m not too optimistic at this point
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Their name is Never Trumpers, not We Are Liberals Now. They’re perfectly open about remaining conservatives.
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RBG was a fighter. We owe her memory the same fighting spirit. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2009, very few survive that long with pancreatic cancer. Cancer comes back often because in many cases it was never fully removed. As a matter of survival, an established cancer tumor will send out little tiny cancer cells that will settle throughout your body. The main tumor will then send out a chemical signal to prevent these tiny cells from growing. Once the main tumor is eliminated via treatment, that chemical signal is no longer being sent. .The undetectable tiny cancer cells it had distributed around your body will then start to grow. In some cases, it can take years so one will erroneously think they’ve beaten it. Not all cancer cells do this as a survival mechanism, but certain types do. Cancer is a bitch.
David Faris wrote an upbeat article about our current situation :
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It’s a political season, and no one knows how this will break; doom and gloom predictions are just as likely to be as incorrect as sunny rainbow ones.
All we know for certain is that it will be a spectacle.
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Look in the mirror before telling someone to manage their issues after that post you made which essentially says everything is hopeless and why bother doing anything now.
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Instead of reading frightening newspaper headlines and uninformed, unscientific opinions from politicians and the like, do some research and read some actual science. We’re not doomed.
I believe official Washington was well aware of her condition. Nina Totenberg said last night that she’s known for a couple of weeks that the justice was quite ill and likely coming to her end. My guess is that the White House’s recent leaks of some names was a response to that knowledge.
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Save the fight for what is to come.
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13 is more defensible (13 federal circuits).
But otherwise agree.
Lift the 435 member cap on Congress. Apportioning districts to the number of the smallest state. This with fix some of the EC advantage given to small states and get us back to the House membership representing population and senate stes on even footing. Such an example would leave California 75-80 EVs.
Welcome to statehood for DC and PR.
Then look at the last 4 years and all the things Trump has done that we assumed Tradition, Decency and the potential threat of impeachment would keep a president from doing, and put enforceable guard rails on.
Joe should do something illegal (but minor, like smoke weed) and have his own AG pursue charges, then have his lawyers defend him using the OLC memo. Then have the 13 member court say the president is not above the law, and the OLC memo on charging presidents with crimes is thrown to the dustbin of history. Joe then pleads guilty to the minor crime, pay his fine.
Then lastly introduce a law that says states cant take more from the federal government than they put in. Republicans generally call themselves the makers and others the takers… the ignorant Republican base will love it, until someone shows them the math.
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It’s my child I worry for.
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Four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing or an up-or-down vote on Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn’t fill an open seat on the Supreme Court before a new president was sworn in.
A basic principle of the law – and of everyday fairness – is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what’s convenient or advantageous in the moment. The rule of law, the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our democracy all depend on that basic principle. As votes are already being cast in this election, Republican Senators are now called to apply that standard. The questions before the Court now and in the coming years – with decisions that will determine whether or not our economy is fair, our society is just, women are treated equally, our planet survives, and our democracy endures – are too consequential to future generations for courts to be filled through anything less than an unimpeachable process.
Well played Obama, throwing in “impeach” to his statement
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That, and quite a few of them are speaking out. Maybe folks should give them 24 hours? Typically when they go dark like this another ad pops up.
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Its cute he thinks any of that matters. Trump just got his backstop for challenging the election and having his coronation-by-legal-challenge affirmed by SCOTUS.
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Absolutely. I thought that was just Trump’s sorry attempt to shore up the base after a lackluster convention. No, it was just spiking the ball on RBG’s deathbed.
You know what? You’re right. Because right now all we have is hope and fight, fight and hope. That’s it. And if we give up one (hope), what the hell is there worth fighting for? So, we’ve got to hold onto both or else we’ll lose before we’ve even started. Although, I did propose to my Canadian friend last night.
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Yes, it’s hyperbolic…yet, possible for them to have the votes. Once politicians see the power shift coming, even those who are democrats will chose to get on winning side.
Unless, we take back Senate…it is possible.
Surely its both.
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