Discussion: Whitehouse Rails Again 'Robert 5' SCOTUS Majority

That presentation was excellent. No secret there how the rulings will end up. Might as well have a robot for the Supreme Court candidate.

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I read Whitehouse and ‘Robert 5’ and thought the headline was referencing something Trump said.

Shouldn’t the headline be “Robert’s 5”?

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Well, at least the comments are working on this thread. I gave up on TPM earlier today when I couldn’t comment on 3 out of 3 recently posted articles.

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Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley returned to Whitehouse’s remarks after the lunch break, and said that the press should not tolerate the “double standard” of the senator’s attacks on the Supreme Court, given the scrutiny President Trump’s criticisms of the judiciary are given.

WTF is Grassley talking about? What does Trump’s mean mouthing the DOJ and the courts based on lies and conspiracy theory have to do with Whitehouse’s FACTUAL delineation of Robert’s Court rulings and their impact on the common good? Surely he can come up with better quality bullshit than that. Maybe the GOP is finally running low on bullshit.

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Superb. Factual with numbers. About content, not process. And one more reason the corporations and the rich are winning everything. Does anyone have any idea what Cruz was talking about when he said Democrats wanted to weaken First Amendment? Was it Citizens United? In true Cruz fashion, he “was not forthcoming.”

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Watch Whitehouse closely this week. A former trial lawyer, he’s the best questioner on the committee, and very likely the best in the Senate.

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Sen Whitehouse’s clear, tough, true takedown of Kavanaugh & the powers behind him was one of the strongest, greatest statements I’ve ever- ever- heard from a Senator. Makes me hope someone starts a Whitehouse for President movement. It was that great.

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Looking closely at Kavanaugh for the first time, taking in his career and forming a first-hand impression of his demeanor and judicial record, the portrait emerges of an exceptionally nasty piece of work who for decades has raged with a kind of revanchist anger based on psychological and ideological grievances that bubble up from some warp in his personality. These kinds of guys don’t just make terrible asshole judges. They do other terrible or ugly stuff in their personal lives. I’ll bet this dude has skeletons in his closet.

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They’ll never run out. It’s what they’re made of.

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“The lives of over 300 million Americans are being affected by policies [and SCOTUS and Federal Judges] foisted on them by a Senate ‘majority’ that represents less than one-fifth of them and a president who was elected with three million fewer votes than his opponent.”

And they are almost all wealthy white males.

That is our fake “democracy.” That is our fake “representative republic.” That is our fake “checks and balances.”

That is our Constitution.

What is Whitehouse or any other Democrat going to do about that?

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It’s the classic Republican’t Double Standard, and the Royal Court Stenographers, the lame-ohs who pass for our “free press” these days, will dutifully report that, when it comes to Supreme Court Bashing, “Both sides do it.” What a world we live in…

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I’m thinking he has the whole freakin’ graveyard in there. Ain’t no room for the bogeyman.

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I know this isn’t a popular position at the moment, but Democrats really need to consider expanding the number of Justices on the Court as soon as they once again gain control of both the White House and the Congress (hopefully as soon as 2020). I think this would be a completely appropriate response to McConnell’s Merrick Garland coup.

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Blumenthal also just did a brilliant takedown of Grassley and the GOP handling of the hearing process itself. I know it won’t do any good, but it makes me feel (just a little bit) that the day will come when we will return to some kind of normal functioning of government.

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Yes. And in order to preserve and fortify that option, they need to start talking about the illegitimacy of this nominee and the nomination process. For all the commendable remarks made this morning, I don’t believe anyone has yet uttered that word.

Like this:

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He probably wants offshore oil spills reclassified as “oil painting” and put under first-amendment protection as a form of “expression.”

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Sadly I have to say that the repubs have the votes to confirm kavanaugh. I pointed out to those who just couldn’t vote for Hillary, that the Supreme Court was also in play. I hope they are happy.

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If you assume that either the GOP doesn’t regain control (which it hasn’t lost yet) of government or the GOP won’t further expand the court if it does regain control, then expansion is a good idea.

That seems like an unsafe bet to me, especially if we are unable to unwind most of the partisan gerrymandering that has happened since the 2010 census.

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He has to - he looks way too much like an evangelical preacher on TV not to have closets full of perverse and ugly shit,

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