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Post by Repat Van on Sept 23, 2020 9:56:14 GMT
Do you really believe that an 87 year old women was on her deathbed with her family and her last words were about who was taking her job at the office ? It could well have been. Or among the last things she talked about. It’s fairly dismissive to call being a Supreme Court judge merely “a job at the office”. It’s far more of a vocation than that. (Although that said her last words are irrelevant. They shouldn’t be pushing through a selection without proper vetting and taking the proper needed to do that.) |
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Post by mids on Sept 23, 2020 9:56:53 GMT
The wrong sort of equality.
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 23, 2020 9:58:05 GMT
There was quite an interesting coincidence on Wiki this morning: an article about a female murderer who was executed in the US. She was guilty as sin but only two supreme court judges dissented when it came to the final appeal. Both women. One of them RGB. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_LewisOr a coincidence as we call them. (Or you could turn it around. The only ones who did not dissent were men.) |
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Post by mids on Sept 23, 2020 10:04:20 GMT
Or men have a greater sense of justice and decency. Not that I'm saying that. But, you know. Just sayin'.
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Post by jimboky on Sept 23, 2020 13:15:04 GMT
RGB often ruled when there was no law to support her, I don't think she ever consented in a death penalty case, I don't think it was a girl thing, just unwilling to follow law when she personally disagreed with the law,
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Post by flatandy on Sept 23, 2020 13:24:50 GMT
The death penalty is inherently unconstitutional. RBG was correct to rule against it in every instance.
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Post by jimboky on Sept 23, 2020 13:33:01 GMT
it was/is not unconstitutional, thus she was usually overruled,
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Post by flatandy on Sept 23, 2020 13:35:59 GMT
No. The extremist justices are wrong. The death penalty is clearly unconstitutional.
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Post by mids on Sept 23, 2020 13:40:26 GMT
Anyway, it will be good to see Trump get a less extremist judge in there.
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Post by jimboky on Sept 23, 2020 13:46:31 GMT
yeah, Barrett, if she is the choice will make a great choice, Wonder who Biden would chose? guess that is like the Obama Care thing, have to pass it to know what is in it, doubt that Biden has been told yet who his choice would be
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Post by jimboky on Sept 23, 2020 13:53:13 GMT
who ever wins President is likely to fill 2 seats during their term, weather it be Trump or Harris
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Post by flatandy on Sept 23, 2020 13:56:05 GMT
Breyer's going soon. I don't know who else. Is Trump planning on killing Elena Kagan because, like Ginsberg and Breyer, she's too Jewy?
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Post by jimboky on Sept 23, 2020 14:31:16 GMT
Thomas, I heard somewhere he had some health issues and considering retiring, as far as I know the Obama judges have no health issues,,,,,,,,,,,,, you do know that Trump's daughter is a Jew,,, right?
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Post by flatandy on Sept 23, 2020 14:39:26 GMT
It's weird that all the Republican justices are catholics (Gorsuch technically isn't but he grew up catholic) and Barratt would be another. That would be 7 catholics on the court.
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Post by flatandy on Sept 23, 2020 16:30:01 GMT
Actually, it's also interesting that the Republicans are approaching this as if they already know that the election is lost. They're behaving like losers who can't wait a couple of months to when they'll have the Presidency and Senate again. They're acting like they know that Joe Biden will win.
It's sad.
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Post by jimboky on Sept 23, 2020 16:45:25 GMT
bird in hand
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Post by flatandy on Sept 23, 2020 16:59:02 GMT
Admitting defeat. Here's an interesting article pointing out that these are basically the final death throes of the Conservative Revolution of the 70s and 80s - the Republicans are in a clear minority, and their power for the last three decades has only rested in institutions designed to keep power from the democratic majority. They know they have no hope electorally in the future, so they're using their last grips to entrench what power they can, and to blow up the system, before they're gone for good. www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/09/23/mcconnell-losing-side-of-history-420354 |
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Post by rick49 on Sept 24, 2020 1:53:40 GMT
obama filled a vacancy before the 2016 election. so why can't trump?
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Post by Repat Van on Sept 24, 2020 2:04:11 GMT
obama filled a vacancy before the 2016 election. so why can't trump? How many months ahead of the election did he have to properly search for and vet a suitable replacement? |
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Post by flatandy on Sept 24, 2020 10:34:52 GMT
obama filled a vacancy before the 2016 election. so why can't trump? Did he really? Are you sure? |
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