Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
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Your kidding right. Are you referring to that sham of a hearing that Moscow Mitch held? A witness came forward and who was given the opportunity to ne heard and cross-examined. That is the way hearings work.
Please explain what the difference is between now and prior to the 2016 election when mist Republicans lined up and said that the Senate should not conform a nominee in the year before the election.
LOL. The biggest complaint among the Republican voters in the old, pre Trump era was the failure of the Republican elites and the "conservative leaders" to fight back. That goes 30 years back and it has always been on the front burner among the Republican rank and file. All noise and no action. Well, it's over.
Ginsburg on Kaepernick protests: 'I think it's dumb and disrespectful'
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, never shy to weigh in on the controversies of the day, said she thinks "it's really dumb" for San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others to refuse to stand for the national anthem.
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Washington and Puerto Rico can both be turned into states, adding in 4 more likely dem senators.
You mean the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Good luck with that. Grasping at straws.
The bill is already sitting in Mule Piss' graveyard.
Why Democrats need to prioritize statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
While Friday's bill passed in the House in favor of Washington DC's statehood isn't going forward now, says Nicole Hemmer, it's a demonstration of why statehood for DC and Puerto Rico should be an urgent priority for Democrats, not just something they support in theory. It's a way to defend...
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Once he's gone....
What's with Dakota anyway? They don't need two states and four senators. They barely have a population for one stated combined.
Wyoming - 1 Wyoming voter has 70 times more political power than a California voter regarding US Senate representation.
- 2 Wyoming votes in the US Senate for just 567,000 residents of that state whereas 2 California votes in the US Senate for 40,000,000 residents of their state
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Two more senate races the dems could now win.
The difference is obvious. In 2016 the sitting President could not be re-elected. It's the President, not his party, who nominates SCOTUS judges. In 2020, it's pure speculation whether Trump will be re-elected, but he is at least running for the office. The two circumstances are not comparable. Obama was a lame duck president in 2016 regardless of who won that election. Also, in 2016 the GOP controlled the Senate, and were not going to vote for Obama's nominee in those circumstances no matter what, so why put Garland through a sham hearing?
I think both expanding the court and giving representation to disenfranchised territories is likely. Spliting California or New York into smaller states is also on the table.
If only. If Republicans fought like Democrats, it would be great. Respect for procedure and norms, a belief in representative democracy and institutions, wow.
What a lovely dream.
LOL. As I said in another post the gymnastics that you and your friends will go through to rationalize the hypocrisy is really quite predictable and amusing. Why not just own it. You have the power and you will use it. Why go through the silly exercise of trying to justify it when you only embarrass yourself.
Nonsense. Neither Mule Piss Mitch, Senate majority leader, nor Liesndy Graham, chair Senate Judiciary Committee gave any of those reasons why they SHUT DOWN the SCOTUS appointment confirmation process in 2016.
Simply and unequivocally stated that the Senate SCOTUS appointment confirmation process cannot occur during an election year.
The problem w splitting CA and NY is that you're likely to make the smaller states politically competitive thereby. Upstate NY could go red. Ditto Northern CA.
What they should really get to do is to combine WY, MT, UT, ID, ND and SD into 1 normal sized state, instead of tiny political entities with clout ludicrously disproportionate to their small size.
