President Obama nominates Merrick Garland for Supreme Court

[about_average]

1) The GOP are probably aware that no GOP president will be elected in the next generation. Demographics are totally against them. Thus they have no fear of payback for stonewalling.

They're quoting a senator from 56 years ago as a reason to not hold hearings. I guess they think they are the only ones with long memories.

 

[Jessie_Pinkman]

1) The GOP are probably aware that no GOP president will be elected in the next generation. Demographics are totally against them. Thus they have no fear of payback for stonewalling.

Garland is the most moderate option the Republicans will see.

If they were smart, they would take it, because Clinton's choice would be much more liberal.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Garland is the most moderate option the Republicans will see.

If they were smart, they would take it, because Clinton's choice would be much more liberal.

That's the beauty of Obamas move.....

Either we get a moderate and we scootch just an itty bit to the right and most of the (R)s will keep their jobs.

OR

Clinton is putting Taniqua Mercedes Watts the Obsidian Hammer of the Liburhul Judiciary Order in the SCOTUS like a wooden stake right through the heart of the GOP as most of them are fired for being prideful idiots.

 

[JackLuis]

Youre a coward, Jack. Basketball is nuthin but niggers, and the Supremes are all Jews and Mackerel Snappers, and you see no problem.

Fuck you, with a splintery hickory stick, Jimmy Bob.

 

[Sean Renaud]

That's the beauty of Obamas move.....

Either we get a moderate and we scootch just an itty bit to the right and most of the (R)s will keep their jobs.

OR

Clinton is putting Taniqua Mercedes Watts the Obsidian Hammer of the Liburhul Judiciary Order in the SCOTUS like a wooden stake right through the heart of the GOP as most of them are fired for being prideful idiots.

So a German black God of thunder member of Hydra? Man I'd love to have been at the meeting where Redskull and Odin decided this.

 

[JackLuis]

Senate Majority Leader McConnell rules out any action on filling Supreme Court vacancy this year

Republican U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday ruled out Senate confirmation of Democratic President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee this year, even if after the November election it appears the next president may pick a liberal who Republicans would like even less.

In television interviews, McConnell said Republican senators had no intention of confirming Democrat Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, even if Democrats win the White House in November, putting them in the position to nominate someone more liberal than Garland when the new president takes office in January.

“I can’t imagine that a Republican-majority Congress, in a lame-duck session, after the American people have spoken (in the election), would want to confirm (Garland),” McConnell told CNN.

“That’s not going to happen,” McConnell told Fox News on Sunday. “The principle is the same, whether it’s before the election or after the election. The principle is the American people are choosing their next president and their next president should pick this Supreme Court nominee.”

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid told “Meet the Press” that he thought the Republican facade against Garland would break, because some Republican senators already have said they would be willing to meet Garland, and one Republican – Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois – has said there should be a vote.

“McConnell is leading his Senate over the cliff. And I am telling everybody that’s watching this, the senators aren’t going to allow that,” Reid said.

Lemmings?

 

[JackLuis]

Fox News Guts Mitch McConnell As GOP Destroys Itself Over Obama SCOTUS Nominee

Transcript via Fox News Sunday:

WALLACE: I am going to ask Mr. McDonough about the Biden rule in a moment. But, frankly, isn’t there a fair amount of hypocrisy on both sides here?

Right now, President Obama is calling for an up or down vote on his nominee. You oppose that. But back in 2005 when George W. Bush was president, you made exactly the same argument that Obama’s making now. Take a look, sir.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MCCONNELL: In a democracy, an up or down vote should be given to a president’s judicial nominees. It’s not complicated. It’s simple. It’s fair. It worked for 229 years. And it has served us well.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: Senator, if an up or down vote for a judicial nominee was simple, fair, and a principle that has served us for 229 years — I guess now it’s over 230 years now — if that’s true then, it is still true?

MCCONNELL: Yes. We’re talking apples and oranges. That comment was not in connection with the Supreme Court vacancy.

What we’re talking about here here’s a factual situation —

WALLACE: But it’s still a judicial nominee, sir.

MCCONNELL: The Supreme Court — no, they’re not the same. The Supreme Court is very different from the other courts.

What we’re talking about here is a Supreme Court vacancy in the middle of a presidential election year made by a lame duck president who is on the way out the door and the impact that will have on this court for the next quarter of a century. That is the issue before us right now.

The Republican Party is a complete mess and on the verge of burning itself to the ground. Fox News is pushing McConnell to change his obstructionist position because they believe that he is about to hand the Senate back to the Democrats on a silver platter.

Mitch McConnell has been a disaster as Senate Majority Leader, and even Fox News is rebelling against his obstructionist path to Republican defeat in November. What is unfolding before the eyes of the nation is nothing less than the complete self-destruction of the Republican Party.

Way to go Mitch, burn that fucking shit hole down!

 

[Hypoxia]

Fox News Guts Mitch McConnell As GOP Destroys Itself Over Obama SCOTUS Nominee

Way to go Mitch, burn that fucking shit hole down!

We should all encourage Sen McConnell to maintain his hardline, principled stand. Never give a inch! [sic] No, no, never compromise, never retreat, never try to actually govern a nation. Show the voters how brave GOP leaders are as they go down with the sinking ship. Ignore the fleeing rats.

 

[BotanyBoy]

So a German black God of thunder member of Hydra? Man I'd love to have been at the meeting where Redskull and Odin decided this.

mmmhmm.


Well it hasn't happened yet so you might still get to see it

Except it will the Emancipator and Obamanator doing it, not Redskull or Odin.

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All just to watch conservative heads explode.

 

[Sean Renaud]

That Is The Coolest!

 

[BotanyBoy]

That Is The Coolest!

Yep, and when I go I'm wearing my FDR T shirt.
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I'll get you a Clinton shirt if you roll with meh
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[Sean Renaud]

I am fucking there!

I got us a ride

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[BotanyBoy]

I am fucking there!

I got us a ride

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[JackLuis]

Cenk Uygur rips Merrick Garland: If he were nominated by a Repub ‘I’d want to filibuster him’

Young Turks host Cenk Uygur slammed the idea that Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is a boon for progressives or that his nomination was a clever move by President Barack Obama.

“I’m supposed to support this guy because somebody with a (D) next to their name said that that was the ‘party line,'” Uygur asked. “‘Hell no’ is not strong enough. If he was proposed by a Republican president I’d want to filibuster him.”

While activists are staging rallies to pressure Republicans to vote on Garland’s nomination, Uygur argued that Garland’s record concerning the Citizens United ruling and habeas corpus rights make him unfit to serve on the high court.

Obama's trick won't work. The Rethuglicans won't allow him to fake out the American people by appointing someone the right likes, if it means Mitch has to appear reasonable!

Uygur noted that, as Just Security reported, Garland was the only Democratic appointee who chose not to dissent when the DC Circuit Court of Appeals refused to rehear a case involving US detainees’ right to a hearing “before being transferred to countries in which they might credibly fear torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.”

“All the other Democratic appointees said, ‘No, you’re not allowed to transfer these detainees to a place where they’re gonna get tortured;’ Garland disagrees,” Uygur explained.

Garland also joined in a 2003 decision stating that detainees at Guantanamo Bay prison were not entitled to habeas corpus protections. The decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court.

“If the government has someone, they have to actually try them; they have to bring them before a judge. They can’t just make them disappear,” Uygur argued. “If you allow the government to do that, that is as tyrannical as it gets. Habeas corpus is the core of what people call ‘Western civilization.’ What I call any civilization.”

 

[Hypoxia]

Cenk Uygur rips Merrick Garland: If he were nominated by a Repub ‘I’d want to filibuster him’

Obama's trick won't work. The Rethuglicans won't allow him to fake out the American people by appointing someone the right likes, if it means Mitch has to appear reasonable!

There was never any danger of a Justice Garland. This is what the CIA calls a "nice clean hit". Fuck, I forget the term for the chess position where every move option is a loss. The GOPs are in that corner.

 

[JackLuis]

There was never any danger of a Justice Garland. This is what the CIA calls a "nice clean hit". Fuck, I forget the term for the chess position where every move option is a loss. The GOPs are in that corner.

I wonder if this is a ploy by Obama to insure that Garland isn't appointed. I mean Obama knew that Mitch wouldn't even consider his appointee, so he appointed Garland to make the Rethuglicans react this way. It's Obama's way of insuring that the Rethuglican majority in the Senate is destroyed and Bernie can have two years to push thru his plans for a Social Democracy, world peace and deporting Trump.

 

[about_average]

Well, they've certainly been able to convince the low information voters that he's anti-gun.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Well, they've certainly been able to convince the low information voters that he's anti-gun.

That's all the legwork they did convincing them Obama is coming for their gunz.

Since O nominated him *instant belief* he's obviously anti gun.

 

[sr71plt]

Being hung up 4-4 is working out pretty well so far. In Virginia alone, a Republican attempt to maintain a gerrymanded congressional district that painfully lumps all majority black voting precincts into just one district is about to lose at the SC level and very soon the former Republican governor's appeal to overturn a bribery conviction he was counting on Scalia to deliver for him is going to be denied too. The Republicans can't win for losing on this SC seat issue.

 

[about_average]

That's all the legwork they did convincing them Obama is coming for their gunz.

Since O nominated him *instant belief* he's obviously anti gun.

That's one of the things that really pisses me off about the NRA. The utter bullshit they are spreading about Garland.
Anyone who bothers to check will know it's bullshit, so they just end up ignoring them. Then when there really is a legitimate complaint or concern people are just used to not taking them seriously.
The boy who cried wolf.

Plus it makes them as crazy extremist as some of the anti-gun people.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Except that's demonstrably false. Everytime Obama sneezes gun sales go through the roof. This like the boy cried wolf so his dad would buy him a gun. And now 365 cries later he's not sure where to store them all.

 

[about_average]

Except that's demonstrably false. Everytime Obama sneezes gun sales go through the roof. This like the boy cried wolf so his dad would buy him a gun. And now 365 cries later he's not sure where to store them all.

No, I don't mean NRA members don't believe them, I meant thinking people. People who don't have knee jerk reactions to every alarm bell, people who might otherwise be able to be reasoned with on 2nd amendment issues.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Thinking people are sufficiently few and far between as to not matter. I don't even claim to always be one because there is a lot going on in the world and some stuff I have to simply outsource to people I trust and hope they don't fuck it up.

 

[about_average]

Well, if it's an issue you care about I'm sure you give it at least a little thought. At least I hope you do.
In this case I care about my right to own firearms, and carry one when I choose to, and the NRA BS about Garland pisses me right off.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Oh on issues I care about I do exhaustive research.

Merrick is "anti" gun. Just because he never took an official stance because it didn't come to that doesn't mean we can't accurate predict what he most likely would have done if he had been forced to make a play.