Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Tuesday that a potential dispute of election results is why the Senate should move quickly to confirm Trump nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
One key trait of the GOP: Failure to keep the quiet part quiet.
Coney-Barrett should recuse herself from election cases, but we know she won’t.
So being concerned about an 8 member SC during an election year never once crossed the minds of Republicans during 2016, and Garland left hanging in the wind? Why wouldn’t MoscowMitch have mentioned this sooner, or Cruz who was a fucking primary candidate?
Straight from the horses mouth.
Krikey! They’re not even pretending to try and not say the quiet parts out loud. Can you imagine the amount of shit that would hit the fan if a Democratic senator basically said this? “We need to ram through this appointment so that a liberal SCOTUS can rubber-stamp whatever election skullduggery we engage in?”
The mind reels. Also, I hear Biden and the Dems are lawyering the fuck up to fight what will no doubt be a blizzard lawsuits from Trump over every single damn thing that will make Bush v. Gore look like a People’s Court case over a scratched car door. They’d better be.
It’s not even saying the quiet part out loud. It’s the official out loud part.
Somehow I don’t think that a second bite at the Supremes deciding a presidential election will work nearly so well as the first one did.
Thomas should also recuse. His hatred for Biden is well known. Hell, it’s memorialized in his book for all to see.
As should Barf and Gorusch, conflict of interest to opine on the same president who just appointed you.
Cruz told NPR that a Supreme Court as it stands with a seat left vacant […] “lacks the constitutional authority to decide anything.”
Nonsense.
She could also decide not to accept the nomination by someone who shits on the Constitution daily and has said he wants the court to overturn the election results (hell throw out the ballots) to install him. But no, she trammeled the corpse of RBG rushing to accept it. I know Biden doesn’t want to pack the court because he has a view of bipartisanship that ended forty years ago, but pressure must be brought to bear on him. Or every legislative accomplishment that could make us a functioning country again will be overruled by Aunt Lydia, ahem, ACB.
Cruz said out loud what the entire country knows. BTW the picture of her standing with Mitch is one for the ages. Are they having fun yet?
No, idiot, the court just lacks an odd number and thus the possibility of a tie.
Is Cruz suggesting that he wouldn’t accept a 5/3 ruling for trump? Because it wasn’t a conservative that died shithead…
My guess is that Cruz expects Robert’s would side with the 3 liberal justices for a tie.
What’s amazing here is that rampant corruption is being used as an excuse for something worse. What situations can you imagine where there would be a 4-4 deadlock on something election related with the current makeup of the court? You’d need one of Roberts or Gorsuch or Kavanaugh to switch sides without anyone else coming along. Which wouldn’t happen.
Cruz just wants another pseudo-catholic cultist.
Really good to see the whole melting pot of America represented right there in the leadership of the republican party.
To state the obvious, it’s not about the legitimacy but the ideological predisposition that makes for a pliable court.
Although, I suppose they mean the same thing to today’s ‘conservative’ mind.
She’ll be a “strong” justice all right – strong like Limburger.
I cannot get over how unhappy she looks. Almost as if it was the last place she wanted to be. There is discomfort on her face.
Fidel Cruz said what?
