PHOENIX (AP) — If Arizona Democrat Mark Kelly wins a seat in the U.S. Senate, he could take office as early as Nov. 30, shrinking the GOP’s Senate majority at a crucial moment and complicating the path to confirmation for President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
It could be decisive for generations just to get Kelly in there. Trump is egregiously pushing for a nominee to assuage his evangelicals. Amy Coney Barrett would do that. Of course, unsafe abortion is one of the most important causes of death and disability among mothers in countries where abortion is illegal. I think it’s fair to say at this point Trump does not care who dies or how many people die as long as he remains the alpha.
O/T can you spell desperate
Sending money his way. Kelly’s winning would be right in a lot of ways.
OT but Trump was in Fayettville being his usual self last night and he had those brain glitches where he garbled words at least five times, according to clips Aaron Rupar has on his Twitter feed. He said we’d land a man on “Nars,” and he called himself Donald “Prump” at one point. Pretty bad when you have trouble saying your own damn name.
I liked this one.
"The aircraft carriers that cost 10 times more than they should cost, and then they use, you know, the electric catapults. You've heard that, right? They don't want to use steam. Why? B/c it's too simple. B/c it works. B/c it's better ... Elevators that are operated by magnets." pic.twitter.com/AGG1jRUbFU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 20, 2020
His meager reptilian brain is coming apart … pressure and stress will do that to someone with a … ahem … pre-existing condition.
I’m surprised he hasn’t touted the cars that run on water.
What scares me is that the GOP isn’t even making the effort to pretend anymore. There is no more attempt to cloak power moves in slogans like ‘states’ rights’, ‘fiscal responsibility’ or ‘morality’, for example. GOP pols are just saying they will do whatever is in their best interests that they have the power to do. I don’t know if this is overconfidence or simply desperation, but either way it is extremely ominous.
There is a very narrow window for Mitch to pull this one off even if Biden wins and the Democrats get a senate majority. Basically, hold hearings on the Trump appointee before Election Day, then push for an immediate post-election vote. Kelly will not be seated then, and the “vulnerable” GOP senators will have lost their elections so they can fall in line without consequence. The unless one of the retiring Republicans jumps ship, the Democrats can only count on Murkowski, Romney and possibly Collins.
At this point, the next few years will be total nuclear war between the parties.
Yikes … he can’t even articulate a simple idea.
This tells me he’s all improv now.
It’s parallel to Trump talking about eugenics and racial superiority theory right out loud, albeit poorly articulated.
When future psychology professors look for examples of famous people to illustrate sociopathy and projection, I would be really surprised if Mr. Trump’s name doesn’t come up.
Undoubtedly, but that word-garbling isn’t psychology, it’s physiology. He needs a full neurological workup immediately and the fact that this has gone on as long as it has will be addressed by historians and political scientists as well. It’s a scandal all its own.
He has the procerus sign— involuntary deep furrowing between the eyes and in the brow. PSP is accelerating, according to Twitter nutjobs) But I hope it’s true
Unfortunately…then there’s Mitch. Murkowski is on the record saying he will not vote to confirm a Justice until after the election and the winner makes the nomination. That makes it 52 for the GOP. Romney is likely to take the same position. He hats Trump that much. That makes it 51 for the GOP. I think Collins will go the same making it 50. If Kelly is elected, which seems near certain, the GOP will be down to 49 after he takes his seat. I think it’s near certain Mitch will hustle the process up and put the nominee on the floor while Pence still has a chance to place her. If there’s a way to force a delay ( don’t think there is ) and the 3 sitting GOP’ers behave themselves there’s a chance at busting this SCOTUS mess. But there’s Mitch and he’s in a position to make sure that does not happen. Odds must be very long on this going down well.
So where is the tear gas and the rubber bullets against these terrorists?
Isn’t the issue simple? Biden can just call Moscow Mitch. He can tell McConnell that if he wins, the nomination either dies or he will change the number of Supreme Court judges by at least 4 and add judgeships to the lower courts. Isn’t that the simple approach?
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Arizona has a Democratic Secretary of State, so you can be assured election certification will be quick but accurate.
Can’t say the say same for any Republican Secretaries of State, though.
A replacement does need to be found. Just after the election like republicans have said. I think the most important thing the media can do right now is simple let the public know what they said.
In their own words:
February 13, 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice,” McConnell said in a statement released after Scalia’s death. “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.”
February 23, 2016: “I can now confidently say the view shared by virtually everybody in my conference, is that the nomination should be made by the president the people elect in the election that’s underway right now,” McConnell told reporters following Senate Republicans’ first closed-door meeting after Scalia’s death. “I believe the overwhelming view of the Republican Conference in the Senate is that this nomination should not be filled, this vacancy should not be filled by this lame duck president…The American people are perfectly capable of having their say on this issue, so let’s give them a voice. Let’s let the American people decide. The Senate will appropriately revisit the matter when it considers the qualifications of the nominee the next president nominates, whoever that might be.”
Senator Lindsey Graham
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.”
Senator Ted Cruz
“It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don’t do this in an election year.”
Senator Cory Gardner
“I think we’re too close to the election. The president who is elected in November should be the one who makes this decision.”
Senator Marco Rubio
“I don’t think we should be moving on a nominee in the last year of this president’s term — I would say that if it was a Republican president .”
Senator Rob Portman
“I believe the best thing for the country is to trust the American people to weigh in on who should make a lifetime appointment that could reshape the Supreme Court for generations. This wouldn’t be unusual. It is common practice for the Senate to stop acting on lifetime appointments during the last year of a presidential term, and it’s been nearly 80 years since any president was permitted to immediately fill a vacancy that arose in a presidential election year.
2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.): “The very balance of our nation’s highest court is in serious jeopardy. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will do everything in my power to encourage the president and Senate leadership not to start this process until we hear from the American people.”
2016, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): “A lifetime appointment that could dramatically impact individual freedoms and change the direction of the court for at least a generation is too important to get bogged down in politics. The American people shouldn’t be denied a voice.”
2016, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.): “The campaign is already under way. It is essential to the institution of the Senate and to the very health of our republic to not launch our nation into a partisan, divisive confirmation battle during the very same time the American people are casting their ballots to elect our next president.”
2016, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.): “In this election year, the American people will have an opportunity to have their say in the future direction of our country. For this reason, I believe the vacancy left open by Justice Antonin Scalia should not be filled until there is a new president.”
2016, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.): “The Senate should not confirm a new Supreme Court justice until we have a new president.”
2016, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.): “I strongly agree that the American people should decide the future direction of the Supreme Court by their votes for president and the majority party in the U.S. Senate.”
