I can and do admire RBG and respect her judicial record - and still question this statement. .
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No longer requiring votes from the other party changes the nature of the nomination and the confirmation process a lot.
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Only completely.
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Yes, I remember posters here yelling for her to step down. The same damn thing would have happened! And Trump would get two picks.
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He already has two. RBG would make it three.
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You’re right. I forgot about Gorsuch. Gah!
And there was a rumor that Thomas might step down.
But we can’t lose any that actually follow the Constitution or respect precedent.
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The president still nominates a vertebrate, and the optional hearings still sometimes happen.
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Here’s the thing: If the Republican’ts did not keep nominating malevolent idealogues the Democrats would be far less partisan, and if the Republican’ts would stop being powermad obstructions the Republican’ts would be far less partisan. Yet another case of elite, tone deaf “bothsiderism”…
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SCOTUS confirmation process was broken by one party, for outrageous partisan advantage: the GOP, re Garland. What remained of the process was broken into still smaller pieces by the secret, corrupt partisan collusion between Kennedy and Trump. Those shards were then ground into the dust by the GOP’s decision, for partisan reasons, to disclose and/or make public only a tiny fraction of Kavanaugh’s record, and even the disclosed portion was selected by an unaccountable partisan hack determined to rig the confirmation process for partisan reasons in favor of Kavanaugh, himself an extremist partisan.
So yeah, it has become a highly partisan show.
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What happened in 1913, stays in 1913.
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Remember the sweet old days when Anthony Kennedy’s was considered a “Conservative” jurist?
Remember the sweet old days when the filibuster was an effective check on Senatorial excess?
Remember the sweet old days when Presidential discretion included honoring your predecessor’s legacy as a way of ensuring your own would endure?
Oh, wait, sorry, those were the Democratic years. Thankfully the Republicans managed to shit on every one in pursuit of their 1,000-year Reich.
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You’re awfully sure of yourself, so I wont intrude.
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You think a president pardoning himself is a violation of established norms…
Just wait’ll Trump nominates himself for the Supreme Court.
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Since one party refused to have any hearings at all and chose to be financed by Putin’s criminal cartel while working with the Russia mafia to topple all aspects of U.S. democracy;… spare me the “partisan” bs…The axis leaders of WW2 were not “good people on both sides”… the treasonous lying conspiracy driven idiot GOP theocracy is clearly an enemy our country, our constitution , and the Republic for which it stands as well as math, science and reason to name just a few.
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Absolutely
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Chordate?
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partisan nominee = partisan show = partisan result
Bork was 1987, Thomas 1991, Ginsburg 1993. Repubs nominated partisan, controversial judges since Nixon (he had 2 No votes), but it really became partisan after Bork and Thomas, two fellas who were not SCOTUS material, but Repubs went crazy.
So I do not know what Ginsberg is saying. It has been partisan going back to at least Bork, so nominees have been partisan since then, largely from the Republican side.
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That would involve work. He can’t do that. So I think he nominates Manafort.
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Spot on. RBG has done nothing here but issue another call for “regular order” and “civility”.
It’s time to start calling the GOP out on their crap. Otherwise, after donnie is gone, they’ll be able to weasel out of the responsibility they hold for the current state of things. They’re going to try very hard to do so - they’re already laying the groundwork - and the media and liberal/Dem establishment figures cannot let them get away with it. And they have to start that process now, by not saying things like this that imply the GOP was on the straight-and-narrow until they somehow, mysteriously, overnight, nominated, elected, and then became the slaves of an orange shitgibbon with an authoritarian bent.
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Unless you are saying the posters here were somehow unaware that the GOP became the Senate majority, I think their point was, that given her long standing illness, she ought to have stepped down while the Democrats had the Senate Majority.