President Donald Trump can immediately nominate a replacement for the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can ram that nominee through the confirmation process. But Republicans for the Rule of Law spokesman Chris Truax says Democrats threaten retribution that will be “swift, predictable and dire”…if they take control of the Senate and White House. Will Trump risk it?
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Filling Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Supreme Court Seat Would Be a Disastrous Republican Move
[USA Today, Chris Truax, September 20, 2020]
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You guys have PROBLEMS WITH YOUR SITE……….. while typing a long and comprehensive response I was dropped mid sentence. NOT THE FIRST TIME…. you might want to look into that as it DISCOURAGES dialogue.
It might have something to do w/ the expansion of initial comment to 100 words that Scott/Admin did earlier??
I’ve seen this sort of thing happen in my past experience in software: fix one problem, half a dozen new problems emerge!
The whole thing is so damn simple: The Constitution stipulates that the President nominate someone to fill the vacancy and the Senate approves or denies that person. It doesn’t matter who said what and when – in 2016 the President nominated and the Senate denied. That’s normal. This year, the President will nominate and the Senate will probably approve. That’s normal.
Nothing that anyone said before or is saying now that differs from “the President nominates and the Senate decides” makes any difference whatsoever. The process is the process. There are no meaningful threats to the process. Even violence won’t matter unless there’s one or more actual assassinations of key officials. If that happens, though, we have a lot more to worry about than a SCOTUS nomination.
Any other rhetoric about this is a distraction.
In the matter of this Supreme Court vacancy the Democrats are trying to do what they always do. Which is steal by coercion the power granted to others by the Constitution of the United States of America for purposes of furthering their own agenda and imposing it on all of us, against our will.
In this particular instance they seek to nullify the power of the President of the United States of America, clearly laid out in the Constitution, and prevent him from doing his duty as it is prescribed.
The Constitution, by it’s very name, is the foundational, immutable law of the U.S. It is the legal document by which all other laws derive their authority. The U.S. Constitution arose as an agreement among a majority of American peers. There are provisions in the Constitution for altering its character and application. The means to do that require a super majority consensus of the various states in one form (ratification process) or another (Constitutional Convention). If you cannot succeed in plans to alter the Constitution by amendment you cannot change the Constitution because you cannot get a majority of Americans to agree with your proposed changes.
Democrats know that they cannot use this process to successfully impose their agenda. They know they cannot convince a super majority of the States to ratify their proposals and we all know that a Constitutional Convention would become a political free-for-all wherein either side could lose in a big way, with no guarantee of the outcome for either side.
Thus the legal means to alter the foundational laws of the U.S. are closed to the extremist left that now controls the Democrat Party. No, I will not call them the “Democratic Party”, there’s naught democratic about them. Were the Democrats with a capital “D” actually democratic with a lower-case “d” then they would bow to the will of The People. They do not bow to the will of The People because they refuse to accept the will of The People and effect change by the legal, open, clear means provided for in the U.S. Constitution.
This leaves them with only one alternative if they wish to impose their will on the rest of us. That other single alternative is backstabbing, underhanded, double-dealing political maneuvering. This is the route they have chosen because this is the only route that will yield the results they desire.
Which happens to be exactly the same motivation for terrorist organizations. Terrorists know they cannot achieve their goals by traditional, legal, peaceful means and so try to push the changes they desire by extra-legal means.
The Democrats started down this road decades ago. This road only leads to one destination — The collapse of the United States of America in its familiar, historic format. The format that makes this nation greatest among all political entities ever devised by the mind of man and with the guidance and approval of The Almighty. So what the Democrats want, despite their claims, is a lessening devolution of America. We must not let them achieve that goal. Nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.
Anyone else think the meeting between Trump and Barrett was pretty short?
PDT: Mrs. Barrett, you saw what they did to Justice Kavanaugh. They will likely treat you worse. Are you ready to face them down?
Barrett: I put my faith in God. People cannot harm me permanently. Ready and willing, Mr. President.
End of meeting.
I would like to see a Justice confirmed before the election to take that issue off the table for the Democrats and deflate any energy the Democrat base would have if the position were still open.
A great discussion on the authority of the Supreme Court in relation to the Legislature and the Presidency.
I think the timing for these hearings are going to be critical. Kavanaugh was nominated in early July and sworn in the first week of October. I think that the three short weeks were long enough before the midterm election that many voters hadn’t really started paying close attention. I hope McConnell and Graham are savvy enough to let these hearings go on just a little bit longer. We need to give the Democrats enough rope to hang themselves with. Because if you thought Kavanaugh’s hearings were ugly, this is going to make them look like a warm-up act. And I don’t think that the American people, whatever their political opinions, are going to react well to vicious attacks on a Christian mother.
Contrary to the talking point, if Roe were overturned abortion wouldn’t be ‘banned’ , the issue would just go back to the states , some would have it, some would not. This issue would then be subject to the public will which, of course the leftists hate.
Yes, and whether they could get a majority to pass a federal law “overtuning” Roe v. Wade isn’t really relevant. The current reading of Roe would make such a law flatly unconstitutional. The real solution to “overturning” Roe is a constitutional amendment, and there has never been any energy put into that.
Such a federal law would only be relevant in that it would immediately be challenged in court and work its way quickly up to the Supreme Court for a the Court to have a chance to overturn Roe. But since Roberts is now very clearly an institutionalist rather than a textualist, originalist, or even a conservative, this next nominee is the only one who will make overturning it more than a theoretical possibility.
I fear the weak kneed republicans will cave to the left as they have for at least a century. They will go along to get along because they want the democrats to love them and stop saying about them. As a consequence, they stand for NOTHING! They have almost given away our republic for the price of a bowl of moldy three week old oatmeal.
Trump is neither a republican nor a democrat. He simply says the constitution says what it says and it MUST be return to its central position in our laws. Individual rights are central and must be respected.
Trump 2020!
Lionel – this statement: “I fear the weak kneed republicans will cave to the left”
There is no doubt that Romney, Collins and Murkowski (at least) will side with Schumer. Out of “reasonableness” and a return to “congeniality”. But we know it will be due to a lack of spine and a desire to be a Senator rather than standing for something, even if it means losing an election.
I think it’s possible that any or all of them will vote for the nominee. As I recall, none of their statements said how they would vote if the vote came before the election. They said they did not want the vote to happen before the election. Those are two very different things.
Well, color me completely shocked but Romney released a statement stating he would vote if a nominee reaches the floor. Maybe that means the fix is in and a nominee won’t reach the floor, thereby protecting some folks. But he made a pretty unequivocal statement.
Can you really believe anything Romney says beyond the moment he says it? Give him 20 seconds and he will change for what passes for his mind.
No, I don’t believe him. That’s why I think he was assured it wouldn’t make it to the floor before the election. Gives him leave to say he would do something when there is no chance of having to actually do it. I think he wording is too precise. I will vote if there is a vote on the floor. That’s very specific language.
That’s VERY good to hear. I sure hope you’re right!
Michael Anton in American Greatness ‘ If Republicans are good at anything, it’s finding “principled” reasons to betray their constituents …….’
Trump 2020!!