Discussion: Overpromises And Litmus Tests: How The GOP Is Boxing Itself In On SCOTUS

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If Hillary Clinton wins,

That should read, “When Hillary ‘Nasty Woman’ Clinton wins.”

:slight_smile:

The GOP is shitting their collective pants over losing control of the Supreme Court.

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By liberal, of course, they mean anyone who they, the elite, disapprove of.

America, they argue, was created by the Founders to empower the elite. The Founders just made a few mistakes — like allowing everyone to vote, and establishing majority rule without a right for the elite to ignore it.

America is liberalism. Nominating a liberal to the Court is continuing to fulfill the wishes of our nation’s Founders.

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How I pray the Dems retake the Senate. It will be so delicious to see Rethuglicans enjoy a taste of their own medicine.

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Everyone enjoy the game that is sweeping America: “Fascism or Gridlock”. Brought to you by the Republican Party.

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Wish I could play poker with these fools, ALL IN, is all they know!

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Besides “guns for all” and, to an ever decreasing degree, “no abortions,” what does the Republican base think the Constitution says? “Originalism” is just mumbo jumbo Scalia would trot out whenever he had to justify a pre-formed opinion. I guess there’s the part where it says that Congress shall make no law that treats anybody but white guys special.

I just don’t see them getting as fired up as they are in their ineffective opposition to hated Obamacare.

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Supposing the GOPers proceed with their anti-Constitution and anti-American actions. They have sworn to uphold the Constitution (and not just their personal version of it!). So what are the consequences…aside from Chuck Todd going full false equivalency on the SCOTUS nominee process? Seriously, how can there not be serious consequences?

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Ted Cruz, John McCain, Richard Burr and the whole lot of Republicans are AINOs:
American In Name Only.

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The politics of Scorched-Earth-Heel-Dragging-of-Diminishing-White-Privilege –
continues unabated without introspection.

It wasn’t Conservatism.
It’s that they weren’t conservative enough.

On your tombstones, bastards.
Sooner, than later.

jw1

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Pauvre Republicans. With the courts the ultimate prize, they nominated a Mango Mussolini.

http://i1302.photobucket.com/albums/ag137/nelsonmonty/booomsuckit_zpsa6b9d9e8.gif

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Where were you from 2001 to 2009? For that matter, where were you from 2009 to 2016? Serious consequences for Republicans destroying the country and making a mockery of the processes of governance? It is to laugh.

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jw1

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So, these Republicans will block any Clinton nominee because they don’t believe said nominee will uphold the Constitution? The very same Constitution that defines the SC as 9 members.

My question to them. What’s their magic number for the SC? 8? As it stands now. Is 6 ok? How about 2? Maybe zero. What a bunch of BS they are peddling.

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Here’s to the Dems winning the Senate, and to them abolishing the filibuster for all judicial appointments.

I’m pretty sure that after the Garland blockade, and now the threats of a Clinton blockade, they have more than enough cause.

Sure, the GOP will whine about how they didn’t really mean it, and what not. But is there anyone left at this time that actually believes that they are “just talking in jest/in the heat of the moment” and didn’t really mean it? Because I’m pretty sure the past 8 months have proved otherwise.

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Minor point: The Constitution does not specify the number of justices. The Constitution allows the Congress to pass legislation setting the number.

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The Constitution is very succinct about the Supreme Court. It merely provides for one.

US Constitution, Article III, Section 1

The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

Congress can’t abolish the Supreme Court, as it can lower courts, but it can fill in the details pretty much as it wants.

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The contempt the GOP has demonstrated over the past several years for every foundational element of our democracy is breathtaking.

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Republicans honor democracy and the constitution only when they win.

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If Clinton Wins, Republicans Suggest Shrinking Size of Supreme Court

November 3, 20164:22 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered