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Posted By: MissMolly, 1/3/2020 4:44:05 AM

When Justice Antonin Scalia died in early 2016, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell vowed to keep the resulting Supreme Court vacancy open through the elections that November. If a vacancy on the Court arises in 2020, McConnell promises that the Senate will move promptly to confirm President Trump’s nominee. Many folks on the left and in the media are accusing McConnell of the dreaded sin of hypocrisy. But his positions are in fact entirely consistent. A defining feature of the 2016 battle over the Scalia vacancy was that President Obama and the Senate majority were from opposing political parties.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: HPmatt 1/3/2020 6:17:33 AM (No. 277161)
NR writers need to submit articles to different publishers - refuse to go to idiot website.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Rinktum 1/3/2020 6:51:14 AM (No. 277180)
Anytime I see Judge Scalia mentioned in an article, my heart is heavy. His was such a loss. Call me crazy, but his death will always be suspicious knowing what we know about the Deep State now. I am not a conspiracy nut but so many facts surrounding his death smells fishy to me. McConnell has stated he would move to approve a vacancy on the Supreme Court should one arise this year. Good for him. We cannot miss an opportunity to strengthen the court with Constitutionalists.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Kitty Myers 1/3/2020 7:04:08 AM (No. 277185)
#2, I agree about Judge Scalia. He might have had health issues, but he did not die a natural death.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 1/3/2020 7:09:15 AM (No. 277192)
Does it really matter? First they are arguing over a position that is not there. It's a hypothetical argument until looney old lady either steps down or dies. Next If Trump doesn't appoint someone to the spot that doesn't exist this year he can wait until next year when he is re-elected. Without the little old Lady the court is sufficiently Conservative to be safe enough.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 1/3/2020 7:30:48 AM (No. 277219)
Good tactics by McConnell. Aside from this, I have always suspected that both Justice Scalia and Andrew Breitbart did not die from natural causes. Billary, what do you think?
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Paperpuncher 1/3/2020 7:47:45 AM (No. 277234)
There is one really big difference between 2016 and 2020. Obama was a lame duck president and Trump is not. Of course, Obama was lame since elected and the term duck was added for his second term.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: stablemoney 1/3/2020 8:08:50 AM (No. 277257)
I love to hear the left howl. The more the left is defeated, the more winning.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: little guy 1/3/2020 8:09:56 AM (No. 277260)
It's called power ... and you need to know how to use it! Mitch McConnell ---- a/k/a "The Turtle", not because he moves slow but because he refuses to stick his neck out for any one ---- is smart enough to realize that Trump is very popular and will be re-elected. He needs Trump to help campaign for his own senatorial re-election and wants no primary. That will happen. Too bad for us that the little weasel Paul Ryan never helped Trump out. Imagine what could have been accomplished!
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Reply 9 - Posted by: 3XALADY 1/3/2020 8:28:03 AM (No. 277279)
I heard someone on Fox say the impeachment mess is not to keep PDJT from getting re-elected. It is to help the dhims re-take the senate because there will be an opening on the Supreme Court and they can't afford another conservative on board. Never thought of it that way, but it does make sense.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rumblehog 1/3/2020 8:45:14 AM (No. 277298)
The Supreme Court was controlled by the left for decades and decades, so turn about is fair play. The appointment of that sleazebag Ruthie, who had no experience as a Judge, was an ultra-left nutjob ACLU lawyer, who uses "international law" as her "lodestone," instead of the U.S. Constitution makes me cringe to think about all we lost during her tenure. Replacing RGB with another "Constitutional originalist" will give this nation another 20 years to further entrench conservative lawmakers in the Federal government, and with that accomplished will guarantee another 50 years of freedom, liberty, and justice for all.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: cobieone 1/3/2020 8:52:42 AM (No. 277303)
Oh please, Like Chuck Schumer wouldn't do the exact same thing. Playing politics is all he knows.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 1/3/2020 9:21:33 AM (No. 277333)
This debate is moot. Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg may die - - but she will never step down. She will be on the court forever. The Pubbies must look elsewhere to get their next Supreme Court seat.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: bigfatslob 1/3/2020 9:30:50 AM (No. 277345)
It's great that McConnell is playing it right back at the left who always manage to stack the deck when in power but never figure losing power. The left always think they are the most clever in the room. Thinking back in their high life and power when they had all three branches they squandered it while Barack played with his cell phone and his pen. Ruth Buzzard could have retired and let the skinny boy replace her. Ruth Buzzard was like everyone else believing Hillary Clinton was going to win and we would all live in socialist utopia. It did turn out that way.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: starboard 1/3/2020 9:53:38 AM (No. 277377)
#5 Totally agree about Breitbart. With a panic tone in this voice, a week before he "died" I heard him say on a radio talk show, that people were after him and wanted to kill him. The way his body was quickly cremation and arranged for burial to me was very suspicious. Usually a sudden death outside of a hospital or home is investigated by the OIG. In fact, I thought he may have arranged for a fake death to keep the wolves away ala witness protection act process. In the past few years, haven't we learned that we can't believe anything they report to us anymore.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: JackBurton 1/3/2020 10:01:19 AM (No. 277387)
I think it's worth noting that, at the time McConnell refused to vet a SC pick, Hillary was going to win the election. According to ALL the polls.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: natpock1 1/3/2020 10:19:01 AM (No. 277400)
If Hillary had been elected Merrick Garland would have been seated on the Court as he is much less liberal than anyone Hillary would have nominated. McConnell Played it right, he may be slow, but he is not stupid!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Mulhaven 1/3/2020 10:25:39 AM (No. 277411)
#5 You are probably right about Breitbart. Please recall, shortly before his death, he publicly praised to the hilt a dinner prepared for him by Bill Ayers. When Breitbart died it seemed that he had sent an earlier signal that Ayers had served him his "last supper". This would be in conformity with the evil-minded wit of Ayers. It was something of a shock that he had accepted the dinner invitation.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: mc squared 1/3/2020 11:27:07 AM (No. 277506)
#5; At the time of their deaths, we didn't know just how deep the State was - and is. Capable of anything.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Midwest Mom 1/3/2020 12:22:35 PM (No. 277587)
Agree with poster #2
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