Come on! He may not be a Trumplican, but he is still a Republican. Stacking the SCOTUS with activist judges is how a Republican minority cement their control on the nation. And he wobbled about for maybe 15 minutes before he voted for the $2 Trillion tax give away to wealthiest Americans.
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Forget Flake. This a golden opportunity for Dems to expose Trump mercilessly.
Democrats can use the inevitable pre-election Supreme Court appointment to expose Russia collusion. Do this right and McConnell will regret ever having these appointment hearings before the next election.
Give Trumpās picks the same treatment Jim Jordan is giving Rosenstien.
Ask Trumpās picks if they believe intelligence assessments that Russia meddled. Then ask them if they believe the same assessments that say they did it to HELP TRUMP and hurt Hillary.
Anyone they try to pick will have to state beforehand if they believe Russia meddled. And a lot of other inconvenient truths only a Trump appointee might suffer for.
They will also have to answer the question "If evidence proves that Donald J. Trump personally colluded with Russia or advised anyone in his campaign to do so, would they protect him from prosecution?
Each of them will be asked āDo you believe a President is above the law?ā
Each of them will be asked if they have been coached on that very issue in any way.
Each of them will be asked if they believe the evidence that the FBI and CIA offers or do they doubt our intelligence agencies.
Hopefully, if McConnell rushes through this, Democrats will have some serious campaign video clips of them challenging Trumpās pick on points that really matter to their own base. Consider their conundrumā¦ if they agree that Russia meddled with our 2016 election, they telegraph to Trump they arenāt his puppets, but if they fudge their answer to assuage the Fat Orange Pretenderās ego, they will expose their rank hypocrisy.
Democrats can turn these hearings into a referendum on judicial integrity itself, and that canāt help Trump in any way, and can only imagine how easily these judicial picks can be challenged because ot Trumpās outrageous nature.
Ask every one of them if they believe it would be a crime if Trump ever personally encouraged Russia to commit a federal felony to support his election. Then when they obfuscate just play the video of his speech where he did just that and ask them again if they consider that exactly what they just denied.
These are lawyers and former prosecutors who will be asking these questions, they know better than I do how top pose a question in the manner I propose.
Democrats can turn this pile of crap into election gold.
Hopefully, McConnell wonāt figure this out before the election. Iād wager he already fears what that will result in, and heās stuck himself between that impending loss of the House and his personal desperation to add another anti-progress judge to his legacy of lifelong hypocrisy.
If they give Democrats this stage to perform on before the election, it will just add more seats to their House majority, and may even win the Senate.
It is that close, this could push it all over the edge, if Democrats are willing to pull a Jim Jordan on every trump nomineeā¦
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Life is a journeyā¦
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Schedule an appt with a chiropractor, Sir. There seems to be a problem with your backbone.
ā, unconscionableā¦ā
Yap. That is why his nicely nice pretty speech on the Senate floor was just a fart.
Good job snowflake. Now you are hated by the right. You are hated by the left. Nobody will ever take you seriously.
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Excellent suggestions. I sure hope a Senate Democrats (or five) thinks of this ā¦
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āThere are lots of folks out there who assume because Iāve not been in line with lots of the Presidentās policies, and certainly havenāt condoned his behavior, that I should oppose everything, every one of the Presidentās nominees or whatever,ā Flake told the Arizona Republic. āIāve never taken that position.ā
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I hope all TPMers read Joshās column this morning. A Trump picked 5th Justice could very well be the one that creates a court that lets him off of the Mueller investigation and who knows what.
Donāt say it wonāt happen.
My daughter, a 20-yr seasoned defense atty has been saying for some time that this could happen, not that it will happen, but is within the realm of possibility
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and there IS a way to fix the Supreme Court imbalance whether people accept it or not.
An amendment to the Constitution that requires judges to face public approval (50% or better to remain) in a ballot. Do the off-year before every Presidential election, allow them to remain when they lose just until the next President finds a replacement.
It doesnāt give the people the right to elect judges, it gives them the right to eject them, though.
And for all the hand-wringing āoriginalistsā out there imagining themselves purists protecting the Constitution, if the founders considered their version of the Constitution so perfect, why did they allow for amendments in the first place?
Get serious.
I think even THOSE judges will be appalled at what Mueller knows, but I share your concerns anyway.
Hideously bad idea.
Really.
What the hell have you been drinking?
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Perhaps Flake and Marco, both of whom were born without a spine, could purchase a twin battery-powered wheelchair to get them around the Senate corridors.
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Hey, itās a tough choice. We can either treat Canada like an ally or tell women they canāt get an abortion.
Bye bye Canada.
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ā¦just do it ONCE, they did it for Bush in 2000, simply write the amendment as a one-time event, I should have clarified that. A big enough majority in the House and Senate could accomplish that, call it āThe Trump Judicial Housecleaning Amendmentā or something that explains why it happened.
Iām all down for handwringing. But the more pressing question to me lately is whatās the game plan for fixing this mess?
My bullet points would be
- Impeach Trump
- As fruit of the poison tree, impeach both his SC picks
- Undo his Muslim ban, etc, as more fruit in a deplorable basket
- Fix gerrymandering
So thatās just off the top of my head. Now that Iāve done the hard work of sitting here posting on a website, whoās going to do the easy part and implement that? O, and how?
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ā¦said the good little Naziā¦
Of course he wonāt. That would takeā¦what do you call them again?..oh yeah, guts.
Will you hold up the SCOTUS pick in order to save the country?
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What a coward. Quelle surprise.
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Perhaps Flake forgot why he decided to retire, because if heās sincere THIS fight would be where to lay down the gauntlet.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday announced plans to retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of his term, saying he was out of step with the Republican Party in the era of President Trump.
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