Discussion: Obama Will Announce SCOTUS Nominee At 11 AM ET Wednesday

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Obama Will Announce SCOTUS Nominee

QB-KN5.
Your move Mitch.

jw1

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I wish Justice Srinivasan well, as he undoubtedly will be confirmed after the GOTea whines, cries, kicks the ground, petulantly screeches, then backs down and gives him a debate and an up-or-down vote.

In the future, I suspect Srinivasan will be the “right wing” of the court, as a centrist. And I approve.

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I’d like to volunteer for the job myself. I’m as good as anyone the Republicans will consider.

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Another day of spouting apocalyptic doom from Washington Republicans, Fox News, and talk radio.

Prozac: Its what’s for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

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I will say that a conservative jurist would be a huge improvement over the late judicial activist Scalia. Someone who’s a referee and not the offensive coordinator. Someone who doesn’t flagrantly telegraph which precedent he wishes he could revisit and how to go about it. Someone who doesn’t make it possible for corporate-backed, conservative foundation lawyers to recruit plaintiffs and criminal defendants who have standing to file the lawsuits their true clients want filed. Someone who wouldn’t be caught dead in a “hunting” lodge frequented by secret societies of rich white men.

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I want it to be Sri. I hope it’s not Garland. Garland feels like a compromise before he needs to compromise. That said, we’ve been here before. So let’s see.

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He won’t be confirmed, and he is hardly right wing anything. Other than that you are correct.

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He’ll be confirmed. The Republicans might draw it out, but the nominee, whoever it is, will be confirmed.

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Ted Cruz has worked with Srinivasan,has had high praise for him in the past, and voted to confirm him to the circuit court in 2013. Just watch how he changes his tune now that he is one of Obama’s Supreme Court picks

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Note that I put “right-wing” in quotes, and then stated “as a centrist”.

What I am suggesting is that by the time Obama and/or HRC are done filling the vacancies that will undoubtedly come during this and the next administration, the court will have moved left to where a “centrist” like Srinivasan will be the “right-wing” of the court.

And he will be confirmed. The GOP has no spine, they will cave on this and give him his vote.

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I’m pretty sure my state bar would be surprised to hear I don’t have a GED. I’ll take that under consideration.

Right back at ya, babe.

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Is there anything in the rulebook that says the President can’t take a refusal to consider as tacit approval and just move forward? It would be an audacious move that I doubt he would take, but is there an actual codification of “advise and consent”?

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Srinivasan: 18 yeas-0 nays reported out of committee; 97-0 for confirmation! Three years ago. This. Is. Going. To. Be. Sweet. Take that, GOPers!

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I am really curious as to why you believe the nominee will be confirmed.

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I don’t understand why the Dems don’t push back on this notion that if a lefty is appointed to the SC, that the Second Amendment will be gone. Joe “I can’t stop talking” Scarborough said it this morning. Ted “I’m God’s choice” Cruz goes even further when he states that the First Amendment will also be gone. They just throw this crap out there and the lemmings swallow it. Call this BS out, Dems.

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Take your own advice, Newbie.

You’re likely to be chewed up and spit out if you continue to behave like that.

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There is no “do the hard thing and then compromise” with this one. It’s one and done. Whichever one he’s chosen has volunteered to “take one for the team,” and be the object of one of the most vicious, lying right wing smear campaigns yet. The only question is whether Obama shames the Republicans by putting up the utterly unobjectionable white guy who in no way challenges any of their racial prejudices (and those of their constituents) or whether he puts up the utterly unobjectionable not-white guy, thereby trolling the shit out of them.

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A couple of reasons:

  1. The Republicans can’t hold out until election day. They can’t afford to take this beating. The only way this would work is if their commitment to obstruction caused the President to just not nominate. No one outside that bubble ever thought that was a real possibility. I think they’ll put this away fairly quickly because the longer it goes on, the worse it will be for them. The photo ops and the constant refrains of ‘do your job’ will be very damaging. Frankly, they don’t need this right now. The people who are riled up about this issue are already going to vote for them anyway. They need to focus on the independents and Trump is going to cause some dandy roadblocks.

  2. They beat the drums on Sotomayor too about how they were basically going to beat her down and her nomination process almost included a foot massage. I understand that’s a different scenario, but I really think it’s all bluster.

Will the road be totally smooth? No, but I think they’ll cave, sooner rather than later, and Sri/Garland will get a vote.

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What you describe isn’t something the right would go for because to them that isn’t a conservative, that is a liberal. They have swung so far right that every decision the SC makes must support their agenda. If they don’t, then they are traitors to the party and will be vilified.