New broke yesterday that 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire at the end of the high court’s term this summer, much to the relief of progressives worried about President Joe Biden losing a Supreme Court vacancy like Barack Obama if the GOP were to take back the Senate in 2022.
This Supreme Court nomination process can proceed in a dignified fashion on a still-accelerated timeframe - unlike the prior one with the ghoulish announcement of the replacement nominee while Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s body was still warm.
RBG should of retired in 2014 as President Obama asked her.
I wish they could of a done “Weekend at Bernies” thing for a few months so Trump couldn’t steal that seat.
Would have.
Could have.
Confirmed in three weeks! Now you’re talkin’, Chuck!
I felt dread when I saw the Feinstein quote that “there’s no rush” in confirming an appointment. I visualized another year plus of Manchinema-style prevaricating and procrastinating, and finally, Mitch McConnell’s Senate calling a permanent halt to the whole process.
Maybe not!
Nobody thought that former guy could get elected. Not even him.
True but 2016 was no guarantee of a democratic win and another Republican would of still placed right wing judges on the Supreme Court.
The process can move at lightning speed if Biden chooses Judge Jackson, because she went through the full field investigation stuff and Judiciary Committee hearing just last year in 2021. Any updating that needs to be done can be done quickly, with a Committee vote in February. With the average age of Democratic Senators just shy of Moses at 120, there is enormous urgency to get the new nomination confirmed in lightning speed.
Grant Stinchfield, a host on the right-wing outlet Newsmax, floated this mind-blower on his program and Twitter yesterday: What if Breyer’s retirement was planned before the 2020 election so that he could retire at the right time for Biden to replace him, then Biden appoints Vice President Kamala Harris to SCOTUS, then taps Hillary Clinton to be his new vice president, then steps down before 2024, allowing Clinton to become president before she runs as an incumbent in 2024???
Stinchfield even managed to get George Soros in there.
“This is one potential strategy that I promise you, who’s thinking [about it]: Barack Obama, Susan Rice and George Soros. They’re the ones considering this. After all, they’re the ones pulling the strings,” he declared on his show.
Good god but these people are stupid.
Tin foil origami
<snerk<
I know I’ve posted this before, but it always seems to fit the current situation.
Not seeing a downside there, though… 
True.
Yeah. It was pretty obvious that Hillary never wanted the job when she ordered Comey to make big announcements about her e-mails when it looked like she was at risk of winning.
“Stinchfield” is kinda like “Seinfeld”, except it’s a show about less than nothing.
The funny thing is that “Kamala on SCOTUS, position Hillary to run as incumbent” is actually a pretty good plan and is completely lawful, but it will never happen. That’s a weird sort of conspiracy theory to try to get people freaked out about.
Didn’t you mean lignified? Half of the Senate is dead wood…
It’s the Soros hat trick.
Breyer steps down. @JoeBiden appoints @KamalaHarris and taps @HillaryClinton to be VP. Then “Gravy Brain” Biden steps down, handing the White House to Hillary. You watch!
This is genius. And then @HillaryClinton divorces and remarries @GeorgeSoros, while @ChiefJusticeHarris issues a decision that all members of the GOP have to surrender all their belongings as reparations, and @discobot is made emperor of the internet.