Regardless as to how you may feel about having an indefinite conservative lock on the Supreme Court, there is one very important reason why Donald Trump should not be allowed to appoint one:
He is under investigation by the special counsel for conspiracy with a foreign power, election law violations, money laundering and other crimes we don’t know about yet. If there is any possibility that the US Supreme Court has to render a judgement on the legitimacy of a subpoena or indictment or even as to Mueller himself, allowing him to pick and get another justice confirmed has the potential of putting a criminal president above the law.
I guess it’s always possible that the Sarandon Court would do right thing. But there is too much at stake as far as our elections going forward and our economy and foreign policy for us to allow Trump to appoint his own judge.
Now is the time for Jeff Flake, Susan Collins and others to take a stand.
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Yes, Duncan, Obama will go down in the history books as a phenomenally bad choice for president in 2008. It had nothing to do with his race and everything to do with the things he was willing to do to climb the ladder. He had no record of accomplishments before he ran. He had a lot of money pour into the DNC coffers from his wealthy donors to buy the nomination for him, and he did more to cripple the DNC than the Republicans could have done on their own.
It was all about Obama aspiring, Obama succeeding, Obama fulfilling dreams of his “New Coalition”. We didn’t have a messiah. We had a milquetoast. And all of us who saw it coming were called racists and pushed practically out of the party. He didn’t care.
I think someone owes us an apology. Specifically all those bloggers who tepidly supported Obama without uttering a peep about how bad he really was until he left.
Yeah, I’m not counting on it. Even bloggy pundits won’t ever admit they were wrong.
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That is a very good point. I think that if Mueller could start indicting more people quickly, it might help the argument. But of course there are different rules for Democrats and Republicans. Republicans just do what they want, and who is to stop them? Other Republicans? They have not yet, though I guess one could always hope. Collins is worthless in such situations. Flake might somehow step up, but as with all Republicans, he is afraid that he will be destroyed, literally or figuratively, if he does anything against Republicans in power.
He’s not running again.
Yes, but he has a family to protect. The Republican “base” is insane.
But the more I think about it, your argument is very strong, because how can a President be allowed to appoint a Court which would rule on whether he could be indicted, or forced to testify, or whether he had to answer to any legal or judicial body? It is absurd. But of course logic does not prevail now, they just roll o ahead with the circular tyranny. It is an argument which should be used by the Democrats in Congress and by the better people in the media, because I think it resonates. But we are testing whether any rule of law holds up. It doesn’t in Russia.
No doubt, Jeanine Pirro is sitting by the phone.
Sorry guys: two scoops, two terms, two womps, two Justices. Remember, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Maybe follow this guy’s lead:
A lot of Germans followed Hitler, too. This is America, not Nazi Germany. Think of that the next time you look at the flag.
The guy in the pic is somewhere in India, a third world poor illiterate fool and trump supporters in this country are no different. They are turning this country into a third world.
Well, old Adolf did preside over an economic miracle. Trump is bringing back manufacturing – things looking up!
Unless Blizzy posts something else before midnight, of course. 😉
Tell that to the Harley workers who will be getting laid off because Trump Tariffs forced the company to move some production facilities out of the country.
Bottom line he is under criminal investigation— I like what you’re saying.
I’ve been wondering if Kennedy’s retiring is a maybe a too sublime message to liberals to go out and effing vote in November, especially after this last session, it’s been one gut punch after another
That is an awfully big risk to take considering he could have stayed another term and waited.
I get that, my first reaction at first was WTF??!! Then it was ohhh was this a message? Then finally, holy shit! I hope he’s ok 😦 we live in sad times that it went in that order
I left this comment on the last thread but considering his opinion in the travel ban case where he seemed to realize things were out of wack and stakes were too high, this is too sudden and I wonder whether he was ‘forced’ to retire now. Go spend the time with your lovely family.
Because, the very next day, the NY Times broke the story about how Kennedy’s SON loaned Trump Inc. zillions of real estate dollars from Deutschebank. They are buds.
My sister always said that the true deep date had a reason for allowing Obama’s election. Now we know. Backlash , backlash, backlash.
Does anybody know if trump in 2020 has to be on ballot in all 50 states or can he get away with running only in red and purple states? He will get his electoral college votes. MD and RI have passed laws that the candidate must show tax returns.
Things like this make you go ‘that blubbering idiot trump is not the mastermind of all this’ which then begs the question who else is thinking up all this?
https://twitter.com/IntelOperator/status/1012049126907883523
Who else? 👿
Harry Reid’s CoS.
Hi all, I’m taking a break from the horrors, the horrors. Someone I am having dinner with wants to know what I’m really like.
I need references.
Be honest.
Go!
Witty, smart… just the kind of person I would like to have dinner with
RD:
I can not thank you enough for pointing out the truth about “Obama the Messiah”.
Though America was very wary of the Rep-os -after the W Cheney’s manipulation into war; they gave Obama a pass knowingly.
I did not vote for Obama and I was chastised as racist.
I attended to an Obama-Hillary Debate presented by University of Texas at Austin. His lack of knowledge on the issues and overall incompetence was so obvious, that the students’ board gave its support to Hillary and conveyed in The Daily Texan paper, that maybe in the future he would have more possibilities and support.
Wish I’ve kept a copy of the paper…
The anointing of Obama is what is going to cause the court to go right for another 30+ years… the good news (for me) is I am old and wont have to live with the consequences.
https://twitter.com/woody_tobias/status/1012151483490619398
Lol… his buddy Rudy would help him with his corset.
We are as stubborn as those garbage bags that time cannot decay.