Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[perrykneeham]

Sept 19, 2020 17:17:21 GMT perrykneeham said:

Sept 19, 2020 15:39:38 GMT whitewine said:

Yeah I saw that , the book was written by Groom, but the film was written by Eric Roth.

Oy! I expect he got his 3%.

Turns out he didn't. Neither did many of the creative side. Again, can't see them being too troubled by missing out on Oscars.

[whitewine]

Read a review about the book online and here is one reviews dated December 2019.


I saw the film before I knew it was based on a book. Always enjoyed the film as one of my favorites so I bought the book. Big disappointment. Why? The book was not like the film and this spoiled the book. However, I decided to re-read the book again, six years later. This second reading, putting aside what was shown in the film, was pure pleasure. Groom's style is fluid, engaging and very humorous. The book characters, for me, took on the face and voice of the film, which in turn made the book even more enjoyable. Gump's adventures in the book are quite nutty but Groom's imagery and Southern drawl for Forrest (interspersed with Forrest Gump's grasp of things), carries the story brilliantly. Very well written and thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. You need to read the book as a distinct entity from the film and then you will enjoy both. Cracking good read.


LINK

[perrykneeham]

Often the way with novels and films. Actually, that's often the way with history books and films. And indeed history books and other history books.

[unclejunior]

JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG URGED THE SENATE TO VOTE ON A REPLACEMENT FOR DECEASED JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA PRIOR TO THE 2016 ELECTION: “THAT’S THEIR JOB”
by Kevin Ryan
In a July, 2016 interview with the New York Times, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “chastised the Senate for refusing to act on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.”
While the other seven Supreme Court Justices said nothing in public about President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy left when conservative justice Antonin Scalia died prior to the 2016 election, Justice Ginsburg was unequivocal.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year,” she said when asked if the Senate had an obligation to vote on Judge Garland.
“That’s their job,” she said.

[Repat Van]

Sept 20, 2020 9:41:08 GMT unclejunior said:

JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG URGED THE SENATE TO VOTE ON A REPLACEMENT FOR DECEASED JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA PRIOR TO THE 2016 ELECTION: “THAT’S THEIR JOB”
by Kevin Ryan
In a July, 2016 interview with the New York Times, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “chastised the Senate for refusing to act on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.”
While the other seven Supreme Court Justices said nothing in public about President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy left when conservative justice Antonin Scalia died prior to the 2016 election, Justice Ginsburg was unequivocal.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year,” she said when asked if the Senate had an obligation to vote on Judge Garland.
“That’s their job,” she said.

9 months vs. 1.5 months?

[flatandy]

He’s going to nominate Barack Obama, isn’t he? A man to follow in Willian H Taft’s footsteps, but an even better President and an even better legal mind.

[mids]

I hope he nominates James Delingpole.

[Repat Van]

Sept 20, 2020 11:29:52 GMT mids said:

I hope he nominates James Delingpole.

I had almost forgotten that human cricket existed.

[mids]

You're welcome!

[Repat Van]

Now I have that image of him on his 50th, half naked in my head.

I think I just threw up in my mouth.

[mids]

Again, you're welcome.

[voice]

[reverend]

Sept 20, 2020 10:02:00 GMT Repat Van said:

Sept 20, 2020 9:41:08 GMT unclejunior said:

JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG URGED THE SENATE TO VOTE ON A REPLACEMENT FOR DECEASED JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA PRIOR TO THE 2016 ELECTION: “THAT’S THEIR JOB”
by Kevin Ryan
In a July, 2016 interview with the New York Times, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “chastised the Senate for refusing to act on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.”
While the other seven Supreme Court Justices said nothing in public about President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy left when conservative justice Antonin Scalia died prior to the 2016 election, Justice Ginsburg was unequivocal.
“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year,” she said when asked if the Senate had an obligation to vote on Judge Garland.
“That’s their job,” she said.

9 months vs. 1.5 months?

“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year,”

His right to pick stops when he leaves office.

[flatandy]

Yeah. The problem isn't Trump not nominating to replace RBG. In terms of the legislative timeline it's tight, and tough, and it's politically dangerous for Republican senators in tight races who may not want to be on record either supporting or opposing a controversial nominee - oppose and lose the Trumpers, support and lose the moderates. That means that Steve Daines, John Cornyn, Susan Collins, Corey Gardner, Lindsay Graham, Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Martha McSalley and David Perdue might want Trump to hold his fire.

But the real problem is the wave of lies and bullshit and specious excuses the Republicans gave in 2016 for not advancing Merrick Garland's nomination. That's where the monstrous hypocrisy is. If they'd allowed Garland's nomination to proceed to the floor and see if their members would have supported it, there'd be much less bellyaching about the double standards.

[reverend]

""But the real problem is the wave of lies and bullshit and specious excuses the Republicans gave in 2016""

No good reason not to now then.

[flatandy]

A good reason to highlight their lies, bullshit, inconsistency, nonsense and the fact that they’re throwing out the so-called guidelines they created for themselves 4 years ago.

[mids]

Funny to see the left losing their utter sh*t over something they also did 4 years ago. Hilarious, really.

[Repat Van]

Sept 20, 2020 19:32:47 GMT reverend said:

Sept 20, 2020 10:02:00 GMT Repat Van said:

9 months vs. 1.5 months?

“There’s nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year,”

His right to pick stops when he leaves office.

9 months vs. 1.5 months?

Note I have not said anything about what the president can and cannot do.

But you do see a difference right in 1.5 and 9 months?

Please tell me you do? And if you don’t I hope to God you are never in a position where you are in charge of recruitment for senior level positions.

[jimboky]

no president has ever failed to name a Supreme, there has been over 20, I give Mitch even money on getting them through,

[flatandy]

Trump will name. Mitch will vote in the lame duck session before Ttrump is out of office and before the Republicans lose their Senate.majority in January.