Amy Coney (Dog) Barrett: My opinion regarding the supreme court pick ABC: she should do better than the 🍺beer drinking sexual assaulter 😈. But the Dems are going to drag her in the mud about her Religion, sad.
Post by goldenlions on Oct 15, 2020 23:12:21 GMT -6
I find it amazingly hypocritical that the senators who demanded that a SCJ could never be confirmed in an election year have all flip flopped this year.
The Supreme Court should never have been politicized. Yet it is, and another reason why the US is becoming the Roman Empire circa 350 AD.
Goldie, if you are referring to Merrick Garland and Obama, Obama appointed him but didn't have a majority in the Senate. If he would have via the election Garland would have been in, but he didn't. Trump has the Senate, so there you go.
Republicans put themselves is a bad position with not giving Garland a hearing and then not leveling that it wasn't just because it was an election year but also because the Senate had flipped in the midterm and Republican now controlled it, personally I think the Republicans are within their right to have declined hearings on Garland and also to push through hearing now for Barrett but they have been ham fisted with their communication. At minimum Democrats will reply in kind should they gain control of the Senate and that's fair but should they attempt to expand the Supreme Court I think we'll have a real crisis on our hands.
Golden makes an excellent parallel to the Roman republic, but i'd use the earlier Roman example of the Gracchi brothers vs. the Senate, the strong arm politics, violating political norms, competing to give the most hand outs to voters, even the riots on the streets.