Anthony Kennedy Retires

[Rerun]

Supreme Court has an opening.   Anthony Kennedy has served for 30 years.  He is almost 82.  Bless his heart!  I wish him the best time ever spending time with his family.

Get ready for a vicious confirmation battle.  The President could nominate Jesus and the Dembos will not confirm him. 

Or they will say we have to wait until Trump gets "impeached" so the next president (Pence) gets to nominate.

    

[Jean]

so correct. The Libtards will find fault with who ever Trump nominates.

[MooseMom]

The new McConnell rule will apply.

Are you two being purposely provocative tonight?  Isn't this illustrative of just what is wrong with our country?

"Dembos" and "libtards"?  Really?  Why?

Watch Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

[iolaire]

Does "libtard" also apply to liberal republicans or do you consider only an insult against "Dembos"? 

Also if I call any moderator of this forum a "libtard" will I be banned for life?

[Cowdog]

If the shoe fits..........

[MooseMom]

Perhaps this thread should be closed now. 

[Rerun]

    Name calling is ban worthy if you call a specific person a name.  Like calling me a racist.  But calling all whites a racist is ridiculous but whatever.  I can't take that personally.

But if you want to go to Kitkats and complain and whine, by ALL means go for it.

[MooseMom]

Naw, Rerun, you can just hoist yourself by your own petard. 

[Rerun]

"Petard" means FART for those of you who are Democrats. 

    

[MooseMom]

Oh, dearie me.  Someone needs a bit of a lie down!  LOL!

[MooseMom]

I know that we're not supposed to delete posts, but I just did.  It had nothing to do with dialysis or CKD, so I can't imagine that anyone would care.

This is just a stupid thread that I decline to pay any attention to.

[Rerun]

Quote by MM: 
The new McConnell rule will apply.

I agree.

Also, Judge Scalia passed away in February 2016.  If Hilary had won, would we be having this conversation?

Probably not.

[kickingandscreaming]

The fact that McConnell pulled his fast one with Garland says to me that he was well aware of the micky mousing that Rump was doing with Russia and that he would win and would appoint a right wing fascist

[willowtreewren]

Interesting article from Business Insider.

http://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-son-loaned-president-trump-over-a-billion-dollars-2018-6?r=UK&IR=T

If the investigation had needed to come before the SCOTUS, Kennedy would have had to recuse himself. tRump definitely needed to get him off the court and replace hime with someone who he could "rely" on to have his back.

[willowtreewren]

And this:

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/29/new-claims-justice-kennedy-was-bought-off-and-must-be-investigated.html

or this:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/donald-trump-justice-anthony-kennedy-retirement

[cattlekid]

Regardless of the "Mitch McConnell rule", please explain to me how someone who is under federal investigation should be allowed to nominate a justice who would rule on his eventual case? 

[kickingandscreaming]

Because Mitch McConnell says so.  That's how. 

[Bill Peckham]

I'd like to ask people who didn't vote or voted third party instead of Clinton (Sanders supports in the main) a question. Those of you who didn't vote because:

• Sanders treated unfairly
• the major party candidates are all the same
• it doesn't matter
• Clinton email
• Other
• all of the above

In retrospect, do you feel like you made a good decision?

[Rerun]

   YES   

[Rerun]

We will hear on Monday who Donald Picks.     

[Jean]

Whoever he picks has a hairy life ahead of him, trying to do his job while the Left picks on everything up to and including his nose hairs. I feel sorry for the person.

[Michael Murphy]

Actually this will be more interesting then people think John McCain will probably be absent that means 51 republican senators.  Collins has already said she may not vote for a roe v wade opponent,  that leaves a tie to be broken by pence however trump has not made many friends with republican senators, murkowski, flake, corker come to mind.

[Rerun]

Sad that it just can't be on the person's history on a honest person who knows how to interpret the Constitution.  I can't wait until the mid-terms to get some of those biased congress people out of there and get some new blood who isn't so angry. 

What is the big deal with Roe vs Wade.  It was never voted on by the people.  The Supreme Court made it the law of the land.... period.  All that would happen if it was overturned is the STATES would individually vote on the law.  That is the way it should have been handled in the first place. 

[Simon Dog]

SCOTUS has become a legislative, rather than interpretive, body.    The fact that the votes could be predicted on so many cases (excluding Kennedy who became known as the swing voter) speaks to the intellectual dishonesty in many of the rulings.

Don't forget, it is not just how they vote on cases that matter, but the granting of cert.  It takes four justices to agree to hear a case, and it is probable that some justices vote to deny cert if they feel a case will not go their way.

[cattlekid]

re: mid-terms.  I think you will see a lot of "biased congress people" out of there but on the R side.  My gut says that unless you a Congressperson from a DEEP red district, you better start packing up your non-essentials now. 

And the new blood?  I have a feeling you haven't see the tip of the anger iceberg yet.  Did you see today's POTUS decision that money owed the insurance companies as part of ACA risk adjustment is not going to be paid?  When more insurance companies start pulling out of the ACA marketplaces the anger quotient is going to start ratcheting up to notches unknown.  Maybe even enough for the dyed-in-the-wool R's to finally understand that the ACA isn't the work of the devil.

Sad that it just can't be on the person's history on a honest person who knows how to interpret the Constitution.  I can't wait until the mid-terms to get some of those biased congress people out of there and get some new blood who isn't so angry.