The GOP Senate Damn Well Better
Confirm Whoever POTUS Appoints
Townhall,
by
Kurt Schlichter
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
9/20/2020 4:57:12 AM
Perhaps it is glib to observe that, at the end of the day, Republicans should confirm a replacement for Justice Ginsburg because they can confirm a replacement for Justice Ginsburg, but there is a lot of truth to that observation. They can do it because the president has the power under the Constitution to appoint a nominee (I expect it to be Amy Coney Barrett, but Barbara Lagoa is a possibility and a great one), plus because the Senate has the power under the Constitution to confirm said nominee. And they better do it, because the Democrats intend to crush us
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 9/20/2020 5:49:24 AM (No. 546268)
All this hinges on President Trump nominating an acceptable candidate. If he does, by all means vote for him. Just voting yes to anyone is how we get bad judges. Didn't Bush 43 try to get his family lawyer seated? Was that a good idea? Of course it was, since 43 had an "R" after his name.
Get away from the party fixation. That's what got us into all this trouble. Thats what got us a long list of rinos, like McCain, Romney, Flake, Collins, Murkowski, and plenty of others. They all put an "R" after their names too, and we got traitors.
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Just don’t appoint your secretary Mr. President! Remember Harriet Meyers! Good grief!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 9/20/2020 6:32:20 AM (No. 546282)
I trust this president to make a solid decision. So far, it's been two for two. Both have been excellent (Kavanaugh and Gorsuch).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum 9/20/2020 6:38:22 AM (No. 546284)
Come on! Do you actually believe this President is going to nominate someone unqualified? He is all about competence and doing the best you can in your position. He is not a fool. He knows the stakes and wants a strict Constitutionalist because that is the right qualification. It is important after having so many judges using their position to make law, not interpret it. The only thing that brings is tyranny. Nominating persons to serve on the SCOTUS is his duty and he will do it. It is going to get ugly but that cannot and should not deter us. We must seat this justice regardless of the hissy fit that the left will throw. It is time for the contrarians to support this President. Their self-serving sanctimony rings false as we face a democrat party who has lost their minds. They must get on board with this nominee. To dig in their heels and refuse is reprehensible especially when we are dealing with democrats who have promised violence in protest.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
TCloud 9/20/2020 7:18:12 AM (No. 546310)
A Royal Tar and Feathering awaiting RINOs.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jjs 9/20/2020 7:54:03 AM (No. 546347)
You can't ask for a better test than this of who is for the people and who is against. Let the votes be counted.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40 9/20/2020 7:55:15 AM (No. 546349)
#1, getting away from part fixation is a very dangerous business in today's America. You almost certainly find that your magnanimity is not reciprocated. This dishonesty on part of the other side has in fact brought us to this sorry juncture. Luckily, PDT is nobody's fool. Have faith!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 9/20/2020 8:11:25 AM (No. 546367)
I would love to see this President and future Presidents stop replacing federal judges. Eventually the whole rotten institution would wither away.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 9/20/2020 8:55:38 AM (No. 546407)
A retired Denver talk show host said many times, “party trumps person.” He is half right because with Republicans we have the maddening rino factor. Conversely, democrats stick together like a ball of snakes. An exception is red or purple state democrats who veer from the party line with permission from leadership. For example, phony Joe Manchin, who sides with GOP when dems don’t need his vote.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/20/2020 9:00:12 AM (No. 546418)
Pierre, Murko, and Collins, you understand what to do comes the SCOTUS confirmation vote or you still need to be re-educated a bit more.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Phantomll 9/20/2020 9:17:16 AM (No. 546431)
The 'Rats never have the equivalent of RINOs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Arby 9/20/2020 10:02:53 AM (No. 546473)
DJT will do the right thing and appoint a superb person. The question is whether or not the rinos will vote to confirm (and whether or not a small handful of rational democrats will as well).
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MDConservative 9/20/2020 10:21:59 AM (No. 546491)
The biggest question is the unknown. Remember how Backwoods David Souter was a rockribbed conservative pushed by another such named Sununu? Everyone cheered...
There is always a "rockribbed conservative" on the bench who goes rogue at the most inopportune moment. I suspect we could have a 9-0 "conservative" court capable of a 5-4 ruling that allows abortion, for example, to continue as "law of the land." There is a bunch of Republican/conservative Earl Warrens out there...one may already be the Chief Justice.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mean Gene 9/20/2020 10:31:07 AM (No. 546498)
Even if Murkowski, Collins and Romney (all old fashioned non-America 1st, GOPe globalists) vote with the Dems our own VP Pence can cast the tie breaking vote.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Kafka2 9/20/2020 11:14:51 AM (No. 546548)
The way for evil to triumph is for sell proclaimed good men to sit on their arses and do nothing.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
rikkitikki 9/20/2020 11:52:41 AM (No. 546602)
Assuming Trump nominates a truly 'Constitutional' replacement, Murkowski and Collins darn well better vote them in, or their place in hell is assured.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
moonlightflip 9/20/2020 12:22:24 PM (No. 546644)
bravo!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 9/20/2020 12:29:12 PM (No. 546655)
Yes. But we have worthless fools like Murkowsky and Collins who barely pretend to be Republicans, along with several others who are not quite as useless, but have spines made of jello.
I think we have a good chance, but it is no lock.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zigrid 9/20/2020 12:45:27 PM (No. 546694)
Ruth Ginsburg did her job.... now it's time for President Trump to do his.... nominate a candidate.... get Senate approval and seat a new female justice....my only vote in the matter is voting for the President on November 3rd.... the rest is up to President Trump....
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
chillijilli 9/20/2020 1:00:25 PM (No. 546727)
I wish, #15. There's a huge problem that nobody wants to talk about. It's very likely that Pence won't be called upon to break any tie. Martha McSally (AZ) was APPOINTED, not elected, and right now she's running in a Special Election to see who will retain her seat for the final 2 years of her term. Unfortunately, she's trailing Mark Kelly (D) (Gabby Gifford's astronaut husband) by double digits. Because it's a Special Election, different rules apply and if Kelly wins as predicted he could be seated and voting by as early as NOV 30. McConnell has to conduct this orchestra with exquisite timing or the Demos will have the votes they need because of this very strange situation.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hershey 9/20/2020 1:33:09 PM (No. 546761)
And whichever one of them strays from the herd will become hamburger, or more to the point, pork sausage at their next election....
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
A Burrite 9/20/2020 3:41:14 PM (No. 546854)
Do the Republican Senators need to have spine implants before understanding the consequences of their not voting for whomever POTUS nominates? It's time that Gleesome Threesome (aka Murkowski, Collins and Mittens) saddle up and vote for the country and not their selfish interests!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
KTWO 9/20/2020 5:31:24 PM (No. 546919)
Trump will nominate a well qualified person. The Democrats will oppose anyone and use any means to defeat the nominee. So there is no reason to weigh their arguments about rules or procedures or precedents.
That opposition leaves the GOP no choice. The Senate better confirm without delay or the GOP will become the Gone Old Party. And they will have deserved it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 9/20/2020 6:15:19 PM (No. 546955)
I keep wondering when a President and a Congress will FINALLY have the spine to tell the SCOTUS, "NO, you do NOT have the power to decide whether a law is Constitutional or not. If you would like to contest that, please show us the lines in the Constitution which give you that power." They cannot, because it is not there.
The SCOTUS created the power to rule on the Constitutionality of laws out of thin air in 1803 in the case of Marbuery vs Madison, which involved an essentially moot case of one of many federal judge appointments tardily rammed through by a lame duck President Adams, and the newly elected President Jefferson's Sec. of State, James Madison, refusing to seat the judge because the paperwork hadn't cleared in time for the scurrilous appointment to be legitimized.
HARD FACT: The United States Supreme Court DOES NOT HAVE the Constitutional authority to decide whether a law or an action of the President are Constitutional or not. If either the President or Congress were to just say,
"NOPE, we aren't going to do what you say", the Court would have NO recourse, since they do not have the power, and have NO enforcement powers of any kind of their own. They can lay fines (to be ignored) or throw whatever written or verbal tantrums and hissy fits that they many choose, but there is no one other than Congress or the President who can actually command troops or law enforcement to enforce the court's powers.
The Supremes rule because WE LET THEM keep their fiction going. Their "power" is made of cotton candy, wishes, and unicorn farts, with a huge overlay of "we have always done it that way" as the primary ingredient.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/21/2020 1:39:08 AM (No. 547254)
This is the turning point in the saving of this country or its complete destruction. Do or die time. Game playing is over Mr Romney and Ms Snowe and Murkowski. If you don’t vote to confirm Trumps nominee then you are worse than Judas and Benedict Arnold. Choose wisely.
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