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Amy Coney Barrett: Who is Trump's Supreme Court pick?:
Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the US Supreme Court comes as little surprise.
[...] Donald Trump - who as sitting president gets to select nominees - reportedly once said he was "saving her" for this moment: when elderly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and a vacancy on the nine-member court arose.
It took the president just over a week to fast-track the 48-year-old conservative intellectual into the wings. This is his chance to tip the court make-up even further to the right ahead of the presidential election, when he could lose power.
Barrett's record on gun rights and immigration cases imply she would be as reliable a vote on the right of the court, as Ginsburg was on the left, according to Jonathan Turley, a professor of law at George Washington University.
"Ginsburg maintained one of the most consistent liberal voting records in the history of the court. Barrett has the same consistency and commitment," he adds. "She is not a work-in-progress like some nominees. She is the ultimate 'deliverable' for conservative votes."
And her vote, alongside a conservative majority, could make the difference for decades ahead, especially on divisive issues such as abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act (the Obama-era health insurance provider).
Barrett's legal opinions and remarks on abortion and gay marriage have made her popular with the religious right, but earned vehement opposition from liberals.
But as a devout Catholic, she has repeatedly insisted her faith does not compromise her work.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is facing considerable controversy about his plans to move the nomination forward quickly:
"President Trump could not have made a better decision," Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the majority leader, said in a statement. "Judge Amy Coney Barrett is an exceptionally impressive jurist and an exceedingly well-qualified nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States."
He added: "First, Judge Barrett built a reputation as a brilliant scholar at the forefront of the legal academy. Then she answered the call to public service. For three years on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, she has demonstrated exactly the independence, impartiality, and fidelity to our laws and Constitution that Americans need and deserve on their highest Court... As I have stated, this nomination will receive a vote on the Senate floor in the weeks ahead, following the work of the Judiciary Committee supervised by Chairman Graham."
This is in sharp contrast to McConnell's actions following US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's passing away on February 13, 2016. McConnell waited less than 2 hours to make the first of 5 statements to urging delay in nominating a new Supreme Court justice:
The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president
That statement was made with 342 days (over 11 months) remaining in Obama's term as President. There are 124 days (just over 4 months) remaining before the end of Trump's term.
President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) followed McConnell's lead and never allowed the confirmation process to begin. Thus, no nomination was ever brought to the Senate floor and thereby leaving the vacancy open.
(Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Monday September 28 2020, @02:50PM (3 children)
yes, its 100% about power.
so lets learn that, realize that and remember that.
its 100% bullshit that the R's are any kind of party of 'responsibility'. that is direcly known, if it wasn't known before. we have recordings showing the 180 flip and they are entirely without any shame. they fully know they conned the US and they don't care. the very definition of arrogance.
every time an R is on TV, there should be a crawl on the bottom in red text, "warning, this party is known to lie and cheat and steal, to any degree at all, in order to GET RAW POWER"
that has to be burned into peoples' brains.
and no, BSAB is not applicable here and the dems almost always walk away from stealing power. they have a false sense of fairness and you can't win a gun fight with a knife. that's what its come down to.
I say, take the mitts off entirely (btw, fuck romney, too, that lying sack of shit) and fill the court with progressives, add 2 more states, remove fillibuster, just fuck the R'd as hard as you can over the next 4 years.
we now live 4 years at a time. we no longer worry about 'what would the other guys do if they get this power?'. R's just grab NOW and think LATER. we need to do the same.
time to stop taking things calmly and gentlemanly. if it takes lying and cheating and stealing, well, fight fire with fire.
also: lower the powers of all entities, including AG and president. we should learn our lesson that giving too much power WILL backfire.
final thought: we need 3 parties, now. we can't get rid of the R's (it seems) but we now need a babysitter party to keep the R's in control. a chaparone party of sorts. one that just exists to slap down the R's when (and we know it constantly happens) they act up and pull this shit again, they need to be smacked down. kept in check.
instability always happens when that lunatic party gets control. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
sick of this shit.
if things don't get better soon, we're on the edge of civil war 2. totally not kidding.
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 28 2020, @03:13PM (2 children)
Most assuredly, we do. But you don't seem to grasp why, or even how it works. Maybe some of our members who live with parliamentarian governments can explain that to you.
So, you are agreeing that Barrett is a good SC pick? She, and others like her, would reset the balance of powers to align with the constitution. No more war powers act, etc.
Most of the rest of that is just silly. The idea that the D party is somehow more honorable than the R party is just laughable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 29 2020, @06:43PM (1 child)
Anyone who pays attention sees that the Ds follow the law and traditions of their various roles. They compromise by working towards bipartisan legislation. The Rs repeatedly lie and go back on their own word in naked power grabs.
Yes, Democrats are much better than Republicans, thougg too many Ds are corlorate whores who keep selling out the American public. Still not as bad as the pure corruption if the Rs who also destroy any institutions protecting the people if it gets in their way of appripriating funds. Just pathetic you refuse to see the pattern, but you're probably one of the brainwashed people who says REGULATION BAD! GIVERNMENT BAD! TAXES ARE THEFT HERP DERP!!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 29 2020, @06:57PM
https://nationalfile.com/video-ballot-harvester-connected-to-ilhan-omar-caught-exchanging-200-for-vote/ [nationalfile.com]