While you were locked-in and focused on #Obamagate, the judicial confirmation train kept rolling towards November
It’s now a mad rush to “fill every vacancy” (and maybe create more vacancies) in case Republicans lose the Senate and/or presidency.
The “while you were focused on [fill in name of event or crisis]” paradigm for posts about Trump judicial nominations is now an unofficial series:
- While you were focused on COMEY, Trump nominated another group of CONSERVATIVE Judges (June 7, 2017)
- While you were focused on … Republicans kept moving judicial nominees through pipeline (February 18,2018)
- While you were distracted by [insert news cycle], Trump continued to reshape the federal judiciary (May 19, 2019)
- While you were watching the Democrat debates, Mitch McConnell rammed through more judges (August 1, 2019)
- While you were focused on Impeachment, Trump continued to transform the federal judiciary (November 4, 2019)
- While you were watching Gordon Sondland, Trump flipped the 11th Circuit (November 20, 2019)
- This week federal judiciary became one-fifth Trump-appointed, while media focused on Jerry Nadler (December 7, 2019)
- While you were focused on New Hampshire, more Trump judicial nominees were confirmed (February 12, 2020)
- While you were focused on the pandemic, Trump nominated two more Court of Appeals judges (April 5, 2020)
While you have been locked-in and focused on Obamagate, Mitch McConnell has continued to shepherd nominees through the process, and Trump has continued to nominate judges.
https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/1260972969037303810
There is, according to the media, a mad rush to push through as many judges as possible out of fear that Republicans could lose the Senate and/or the presidency, either of which event would tank the generational project to rebalance the federal judiciary.
Leftist Democracy Now laments that McConnell called the Senate back into session for the judicial confirmation process:
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell brought senators back from an extended, six-week recess this week but did not schedule any coronavirus-related measures. McConnell’s first order of business was a confirmation hearing for 37-year-old Justin Walker, President Trump’s nominee for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
Bloomberg Law notes that Republicans are rushing against the November clock:
An agenda disrupted by the coronavirus and squeezed by the election calendar pose new obstacles for Republicans in their drive to confirm dozens of judges to federal courts.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s motto is “leave no vacancy behind,” but the list of nominees idling outside the floor or awaiting action by the Senate Judiciary Committee or yet to sit for a confirmation hearing is getting longer. The last confirmation was nearly three months ago.
President Donald Trump has selected nominees for just over half of the 78 current or future federal district court and two appellate vacancies, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of federal courts data. The Judiciary Committee will on Thursday consider sending several more trial court nominations to the floor for consideration. There are 10 of them awaiting action. But most of the president’s pending picks have yet to have a hearing.
Carrie Severino writing at National Review has more on the current head count to date.
But before you can achieve a true generational change before the next election, Republicans need even more vacancies to fill. Business Insider writes that Fearing the White House and Senate are lost, GOP insiders want these 80 judges to retire now:
Fearing an electoral bloodbath in November, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are working frantically to secure as many lifetime appointments for conservative jurists as they can while the GOP still holds the reins of power in the Senate and White House.
As the clock ticks, the effort has intensified beyond filling vacancies to creating them: Conservative activists and GOP political insiders are mounting a sotto voce campaign urging older conservative judges to retire now before it becomes too late for Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to swap them out for younger models.
And they have a target list.
Insider has obtained a list of more than 80 judges that Republican activists have identified as candidates for the pressure campaign….
It names Republican-appointed judges who’ve reached the sweet spot in their careers where they are now eligible for retirement or senior status — a sort of judicial semiretirement — and the lifetime pension that comes with it. The full list is published below.
The judicial confirmation train has slowed down, but hasn’t stopped. While you were locked-in and focused on Obamagate, Mitch McConnell was going about his business.
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Electoral bloodbath in November? Where did that come from?
Isn’t that the Leftist fantasy?
Frankly just filling the current vacancies is likely to be a time consuming chore!
The current makeup of the Senate is 53-47. About 2/3 of the Senate seats that are in cycle this year are held by Democrats, and the majority of those are “safe” seats in which something incredible would have to happen for any of them to lose.
Of the seats currently held by the GOP that are in cycle, 2-3 of those are already looking like they could flip (AZ, CO, and I’d add MT to the list by virtue of the strength of the Dem candidate).
So it is not hard to fathom a 50-50 Senate with the VP breaking ties or a Dem majority. If the latter happens and Trump remains POTUS, the Dems will only confirm the nominees they absolutely have to. The only conservative judges that get through would be ones that are part of a deal that includes liberal ones.
I’m not a student of the at-risk senate seats, but from the casual observer, you have to be a really really horrible GOP Senator to be at risk right now.
I’m seeing lifelong democrats flip over the lock down.
You also have to figure in what RINOs like Mitt Romney would do in a 50/50 or 51/49 senate.
Complacency and not putting up a fight.
Quite a few teams thought they’d won a game against the Pats, and that old QB and older-than-dirt Coach had clearly lost it. Then, @ 4th and 12 minutes, B&B see an opening. BOOM, Game Over!
If we do not get out every vote and fight this thing, the clueless team will be us.
Plan for the worst, work for the best. #SlaughterDonks
Back to the old broken record….
Judges
Not Hillary
Everything else is gravy
BUT WHAT GRAVY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Make Gravy Great Again!!!!!!!
So….that gravy a good thing for Conservative or a bad thing for Conservative? please expound on what you are thinking with your vague post.
The Senate came back May 4. Yes, there have been hearings this month, but no judges have been confirmed since March. So far this month they have been having to confirm other people who are kinda needed right now elsewhere but because the Democrats are so stubborn they have to go through the cloture and confirmation process on them instead of just confirming them by voice vote if things were normal. The Senate also considered a few bills.
There will be 4 judges confirmed next week.
Electoral bloodbath? We are seeing democrat politicians acting like power mad dictators. The only way they’ll win is if they steal it and they are 100% going to try.
And if they do steal it, and/or are perceived to have done so, it kind if makes the legitimacy of government . . . questionable. It takes far less than 50% of the 50% that makes up one side to make a violent counteraction likely.
Subotai Bahadur
Subotai, the uniparty has been screwing us for decades. They kicked it into overdrive after 2008, and bho rubbed everyone’s faces in his lawlessness. The corruption was so bad they had to go all-in with obamagate to ensure an hrc win. It’s going to get a lot worse for them before November, cheating ia all they have left.
Will Justice Thomas retire? I think he has mentioned the possibility in the past. Hopefully he will and allow PDJT to appoint a 40 some year old to fill his spot. A RBG replacement will happen and that would neutralize Roberts and hopefully have the SCOTUS locked in for several decades.
Two interesting results in California this week. The one most people know is the US House district 25, where Republican Garcia beat his democratic opponent by 12 points. Most predictions were toss-up; another one had it leaning Democrat.
A less known race was for California Senate, district 28. It was a Republican seat vacated when state Senator Jeff Stone resigned to take a position with the Trump administration. So, in the special election on Tuesday, the Republican candidate Melissa Melendez (a strong supporter of Trump) won 56-44. But what’s remarkable about it is that less than 2 years ago, in 2018, Stone won by just 3 points.
Is there something finally happening in California?
Yes.
Its Dict…Dict…Dictator Gruesome the former son in law of Nancy Pelosi…..
No, he’s her brother-in-law’s former nephew. His ex-wife is certainly no daughter of Pelosi; she’s working for the Trump campaign, and is dating Donald Trump Jr.
Davidm, I’ve mentioned the prop187 issue here many times as an example of how California is more conservative than many people realize. gavin newsome is about to kick a large part of the democrat base in their teeth, state workers. When those good democrats start getting furloughed, lose 10% of their pay and experience more democrat induced financial pain, just to see illegals receive US taxpayer money, he will be in serious political trouble. newsome is already on record promising he will pay illegals. PDJT has indicated sanctuary states and mismanaged states will not receive any more bailout money. newsome was on TV today, essentially demanding federal government money. He’s in a world of hurt whether he realizes it or not suspect he knows.
Can’t Gruesome just borrow it from his inbred double cousins like Jerry Brown and Nancy Pelosi?
Gavin Newsom’s keeping it all in the family
Newsom is succeeding someone who could be considered his quasi-uncle, since his inauguration continues the decades-long saga of four San Francisco families intertwined by blood, by marriage, by money, by culture and, of course, by politics – the Browns, the Newsoms, the Pelosis and the Gettys.
The connections date back at least 80 years, to when Jerry Brown’s father, Pat Brown, ran for San Francisco district attorney, losing in 1939 but winning in 1943, with the help of his close friend and Gavin Newsom’s grandfather, businessman William Newsom.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://calmatters.org/commentary/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjFrNmYmrXpAhUIRa0KHanwBzIQFjAAegQIAxAB&usg=AOvVaw1ZaPtJRVe2byruMw73n6qF&cf=1
District 25 flipped from R to D in the last election. It’s not surprising that it flipped back to R in the special election. The district I live in (formally Issa) flipped D last election. I’ll be surprised if it flips back. Most of San Diego county is becoming more and more D.
The vile Dhimmi-crats are showing their true, totalitarian colors and ethos, their apparatchik, power-mad nature, and, their utter contempt for working men and women and entrepreneurs. This is how they act, when handed the reins of political power — like a bunch of pathological narcissist-infants and tinpot caudillos.
Only a lunatic masochist would cast a vote for a Dhimmi-crat, in November.
That’s what I thought in November 2012.
Unfortunately, large portions of the electorate suprised me.
Hoping the American people can overcome election fraud to keep the Dems out of power. But I like to prepare for the worst.
Eeyore is my spirit animal.
Trump Train!
Everybody get on the Trump Train.
It’s got soul!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Drh7XVaNpcAQ&ved=2ahUKEwiD5oOe9rTpAhUFQK0KHVt0ACQQo7QBMAJ6BAgEEAE&usg=AOvVaw3bcGcre6bCP84shH8E8LOl
I worry. The electorate is fickle, and it’s a long way to the election in a terrible economy. Trump himself is probably safe and beyond reach unless he’s found with the electoral equivalent of a live boy in his bed or a dead hooker in his car truck (I speak figuratively, children). However a lot of people may still be suffering and frustrated and looking for some way to show their unhappiness with the situation, saying by voting out their Congressman and or Senator.
Yup. I had a bud who thought he’d hit on a magic trick by just voting every time for anyone but the incumbent. I tried to explain …. it was like talking to gravy.
What happens in November has nothing at all to do with confirming judges now.
But, as always, the Repubs seem near-paralyzed, moving at a mere crawl.
Fer krissakes, get a move on and do your goddam jobs.
But he’s safe if he shoots someone at high noon on Broadway. And if it’s Dictator Cuomo- he’s a shoo-in.
Hmmmmmm…..
“As a rabbi of 40 years and a person who believes that most people have the potential for goodness, and who tries to find the good even in people who disappoint until they absolutely close off the possibility of goodness being discovered within them, I now have learned to hate.
The Bible certainly does not encourage hate. “Do not hate your brother in your heart. [If he does wrong, go ahead and] Rebuke your compatriot, but do not sin because of him” (Leviticus 19:17). “Do not seek revenge, and do not bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). But the Bible acknowledges the existence of viciousness and cruelty, and it demands of decent people that we not sit on the fence in the face of evil: “Those who love G-d hate evil” (Psalm 97:10). King Solomon laid it out best in that magnificently poetic third chapter of Ecclesiastes, which inspired not only The Byrds but even Pete Seeger and Judy Collins.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. There is a time to hate.
I have come deeply to hate. I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be president of the United States for even one day’s honeymoon. I hate that, long before he won the presidency — fair and square — corrupt crooks and criminals in the United States Department of Justice, its Federal Bureau of Investigation, were actively plotting to take him down. I hate that there are so few outlets in the media that give voice to condemn the criminality and corruption that broke every accepted societal norm by which we play the game. I hate that Obama was in on it, yet continues to pontificate on what is just and on what threatens freedom.
I hate that they all keep getting away with it. Every single one of them gets away with it. There is absolutely no price to be paid on the left for perjury, for conspiracy to overturn a legitimate election, for treason……”
A Time to Hate
It’s not too late.
Dov Fischer by DOV FISCHER
May 11, 2020, 1:02 PM
President Obama in 2014 (Drop of Light/Shutterstock.com)? Listen to this article
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to guard, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
— Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) 3:1-8
Through eight years, I accepted the rules of the game. Obama was president. He won fair and square because the Republicans serially put up two milquetoast opponents who were incapable of offering a vision or articulating a message that inspired. John McCain had been an American wartime hero who stood by his men, refused early release, and withstood torture in the “Hanoi Hilton” 40 years earlier. But he had no business running for a presidency two generations later for which he was not prepared to fight and for which he had no vision. And then came Mitt Romney, his etch-a-sketch candidacy, his binders full of women, and his Romneycare, which served as the model for the Obamacare and which was the single most galvanizing issue in 2012 for Republican conservatives. In order to throw out Obamacare, the Republican Party offered us conservatives … what, Romneycare? Tough for us conservatives to sing in that tabernacle choir.
I accepted Obama. I never articulated his first name, and I never called him “president,” but I accepted the results and accepted that this Pretender was our country’s lawfully elected chief executive. I watched his arrogance, the unctuous way he carried himself literally with his nose up, the way he never held a railing while walking a stairway because he was too cool, the kinds of human dreck he regularly invited as his White House guests, and I accepted it all with the soft whisper, “This, too, shall pass.” I watched the Corrupt Journalist Corps idolize him, crown him a king, admire him as a messiah and a deity, and I accepted the milieu. This, too, in time would pass. It meant living through eight years of the deepest public corruption. Lois Lerner stealing an election by leveraging the awesome power of the Internal Revenue Service to close down legitimate conservative political groups. Eric Holder — the nobleman who urged people to kick enemies — bringing lawlessness and corruption into the Justice Department, even approving the “Fast and Furious” idea of releasing lethal weapons to Mexican drug lords in the cockamamie scheme to find out how they access and move their weapons. Glenn Beck exposed Obama’s Maoist communications director, Anita Dunn, who walked children through the White House. There was ACORN. Just one corruption after another.
I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be President of the United States for even one day’s honeymoon.
Amid my speeches and writings throughout the Wasted Obama Decade, I never published a piece aimed at bringing down Obama before his term was up. He won. Although he is despicable beyond words, the rules of our game, as set forth in our precious Constitution, made him our president. That meant Americans would die needlessly because we had a commander in chief who was a Pretender and an Incompetent. But he won fair and square. So ISIS grew from a small terror band to a caliphate. ISIS-inspired terror attacks occurred in our homeland. Western Europe sustained terrible deadly attacks. Our American economy went nowhere. We micturated half a billion dollars down a toilet with Solyndra while trying to close down our energy sector, attacking the genius of our hydraulic fracturing, obstructing our oil exploration, blocking the construction of new pipelines that offered even more oil and more thousands of jobs. Instead, we got shovel-ready jobs that were not ready but rather were chummy payoffs to union heads and other political insiders. We got windmills suitable for blowhards. We got Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and Benghazi as testimonial to her vision. We got Susan Rice, an idiot, raised paradoxically to head of national security after spending a day lying on five television stations about Benghazi and later going on to describe Bowe Bergdahl, a coward and deserter, as a hero who had served with honor and distinction. We got Loretta Lynch, who some thought would clean up Holder’s corruption of Justice, only to find that she ended up in bed with the Clintons at the height of the probe of Hillary’s corruption. We saw the world’s worst murderers freed from Gitmo so that they could rejoin the war against America.
And yet I accepted it all. Because if there are only two main parties in this country, and if the Republican RINOs refuse repeatedly to nominate a bona fide conservative who truly reflects the will of the rank-and-file voters whose ballots send them to Washington, then we are left with a Pretender like Obama, and he won fair and square.
The waters did not stop rising on Obama’s watch. The Earth was not healed. On his watch, a country that finally had healed itself from the shame and scourge of imposing slavery on human beings more than a century earlier, a country that had atoned and that had created and institutionalized a new social infrastructure by which people no longer were denied because of their skin color or religion — a country that reflected that healing by electing a Black man president despite his manifest lack of personal achievement, close ties with an organized-crime felon, and questionable biography — suddenly erupted into a new era of racial bitterness. Michael Brown and Ferguson aflame amid the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” lie promoted by Obama and by Eric Holder but shot down by a Missouri grand jury. Freddie Gray and Baltimore aflame followed by a series of outright judicial exonerations handed down by a Black judge who saw that every accused cop had acted properly and lawfully. A lowlife killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, a thug whom Obama told us would have been the likes of his own son if he had had a son. Eight years of racial divide, social division aimed at tearing us up as a color-blind and religion-blind American People, just to promote electoral successes.
And yet I accepted that Obama had won. No derangement syndrome for me. It was what it was. As a New York Mets fan from their founding in 1962, I understood what it was to wait patiently and to endure eight years of unmitigated disaster. As a boy, I waited then, and then came Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, and Nolan Ryan. As an adult I waited. And then came Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
When the Mets finally took it all in 1969, the other teams accepted the results. They lost gracefully. Now it was the Mets’ turn, and they had won it fair and square. But these past three years have been something different. Trump and Pence won fair and square. But there was no grace. Rather, there was instant character assassination, instant war, instant denial. Advertisements urging electors to violate their Electoral College oaths. Fabrications of collusion with Putin. Investigations that hamstrung a presidency. Lies and innuendoes leaked and published by the unindicted co-conspirators we call the “mainstream media.” A never-ending hunt to find scandals and Trump accusers: a bimbo who pole-danced at bars, her lawyer who now dances behind bars, another crooked lawyer who tape-recorded his own clients and now is locked up, disbarred from the Bar. One cartoon character after another.
As a rabbi of 40 years and a person who believes that most people have the potential for goodness, and who tries to find the good even in people who disappoint until they absolutely close off the possibility of goodness being discovered within them, I now have learned to hate.
The Bible certainly does not encourage hate. “Do not hate your brother in your heart. [If he does wrong, go ahead and] Rebuke your compatriot, but do not sin because of him” (Leviticus 19:17). “Do not seek revenge, and do not bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself” (Leviticus 19:18). But the Bible acknowledges the existence of viciousness and cruelty, and it demands of decent people that we not sit on the fence in the face of evil: “Those who love G-d hate evil” (Psalm 97:10). King Solomon laid it out best in that magnificently poetic third chapter of Ecclesiastes, which inspired not only The Byrds but even Pete Seeger and Judy Collins.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. There is a time to hate.
I have come deeply to hate. I hate that Donald Trump never was given a chance to be president of the United States for even one day’s honeymoon. I hate that, long before he won the presidency — fair and square — corrupt crooks and criminals in the United States Department of Justice, its Federal Bureau of Investigation, were actively plotting to take him down. I hate that there are so few outlets in the media that give voice to condemn the criminality and corruption that broke every accepted societal norm by which we play the game. I hate that Obama was in on it, yet continues to pontificate on what is just and on what threatens freedom.
I hate that they all keep getting away with it. Every single one of them gets away with it. There is absolutely no price to be paid on the left for perjury, for conspiracy to overturn a legitimate election, for treason.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn may or may not be a great American hero. Yes, he has the medals and the military career for which we all say, “Thank you for your service.” But so did John McCain, and so does that Vindman guy. OK, so thank you for your service. Absolutely. But Michael Flynn, whether a hero or simply, merely just a lifelong patriot who has devoted his entire adult life to the protection and betterment of the United States, wanted to serve his country. So he served honorably in the military under Obama as commander in chief. He accepted the chain of command. And then, after his active military service, he stepped forward to participate politically under Trump.
Lt. Gen. Flynn never deserved what was done to him. He was targeted for destruction by criminals and crooks in the FBI. They set out to destroy him. The FBI is not allowed to bother law-abiding people like you and me, to set us up, and to induce us to commit a crime. They are permitted to pursue criminal investigations only when they have a predicate before them. In the case of Flynn, they had in their possession a complete recording and transcript of his phone call with Sergey Kislyak. Yet they interviewed him and asked him to tell them what was said during the call. The Bureau of Investigation was not investigating; they already knew the answer. Rather, they were setting him up to speak a falsehood, to commit the crime of lying to the FBI, an act whose criminal dimensions he did not appreciate as a layman. They dissuaded him from having an attorney at the interview so he would slip into the trap. A competent attorney would have protected him. Frankly, a competent attorney would have killed the interview in the first place or would have wrangled terms that would have negated its purpose, much as Hillary did.
For each question, even if such an interview ever would have happened, an attorney like me would have been saying, alternating between my client and his interrogator: “Lieutenant General, you do not have to answer that question. Go ahead, what’s the next question?” Or “Lieutenant General, please wait a moment. What is the purpose of this question? What exactly are you asking?” Or “My client, the Lieutenant General, is delighted he could give you eight minutes of his valuable time today. If you want to ask him any more questions along these lines, send us a subpoena. We will study it and let you know our thoughts.”
They took advantage of a good man who suddenly found himself combating in a different kind of military theater outside his field of expertise. He knew the jungles of Afghanistan, not the jungles of the Justice Department in Washington. The slime dregs of Justice, the Peter Strzoks and Andrew McCabes of the FBI, knew this. They had the lieutenant general on their terrain. He never should have been questioned about the call. He never should have been sucked into an interview without an attorney present. He never should have been lulled into what he said to the FBI.
Donald Trump has been the chief executive of this country for more than three years, and he has proven to be a great president in so many ways, but he sadly has proven incapable of cleaning the swamp. He at least identified the swamp’s existence, and he is fighting its effort to swallow him within its muck. But he has proven that, despite the glorious slogan he inspired, he cannot drain it. Not one single slime in the swamp has been brought to justice.
There is something so evil in a society that tolerates a dual standard of justice, dual standards of everything. On the one hand, we political conservatives harbor profoundly deep feelings, but we do not destroy people’s lives based on abstract politics. Yes, we oppose them and expose them, and we hope that contemporary society and history judge them for the evil they represent. But we do not destroy them in their lives. They get away with everything. Hillary Clinton spoliated 33,000 emails amid a federal probe, a federal crime that always ends up with prison time — but not for her. It is a federal crime to lie under oath to Congress. Comey, Clapper, Brennan — how have they all avoided prison time? Strzok, Page, the whole bunch of them? Adam Schiff. The outliers on the Mueller team. Not one single slime among them in the swamp has been brought to justice.
These animals destroyed the life of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. They drove him into such financial ruin that he had to sell his home to pay his legal bills. They went after a good boy, Nick Sandmann, and they cruelly made him into the face of racism. His own Catholic diocese in eastern Kentucky sold him out and sold out all the boys who stood with him that fateful day in Washington, D.C., when he was harassed by a messed-up Indian with a drum. And they did everything they could to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, a good man, a family man, a man who has devoted time throughout his life to his church and to the need. They endeavored through outright perjury to destroy him. The perjurers all got away with it. Name one single perjurer against Justice Kavanaugh who ever was brought to justice by Charles Grassley or Lindsey Graham of the Senate Judicial Committee.
The liars destroy with impunity because they know they always will get away with it. Republicans watch the character assassination and then go on Sean Hannity to sound brave for five minutes. “These people will pay a steep price, Sean.” “I won’t let them get away with it, Sean.” “Let not your heart be troubled, Sean.” “We will investigate every crime and every perjury, Sean.” Three years of hearing this from Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Trey Gowdy, Charles Grassley, Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani, Jason Chaffetz, Kevin McCarthy. Well, Fox News Alert: They all got away with it. Comey. Brennan. Clapper. Blasey Ford. Schiff. Hillary. Strzok. Page. McCabe.
If the Left truly believed in the truth of the slogans they chanted in their failed effort to destroy Justice Kavanaugh, does anyone truly believe that Biden still would be standing today? Does anyone truly believe that Sonia Sotomayor could not have been completely destroyed at the time of her SCOTUS nomination if she were conservative? If the media were not a division of the Democrat Party, does anyone doubt that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo today would have been forced from office like his immediate predecessors, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson, if only for presiding over so extraordinary a health catastrophe that his one state accounts for half the coronavirus illnesses and deaths in the whole country? Cuomo ordered nursing homes in his state to admit coronavirus-infected seniors into facilities that were woefully unprepared to handle the medical ramifications, and that order singularly caused mass death. And yet the same media that seek any and every angle to blame Trump for not wearing a mask lionize Cuomo, who not only should wear a mask but also should change his fingerprints, undergo plastic surgery to reconfigure his appearance, and hide for dear life in some El Chapo cave from the children and grandchildren left behind by the more than 5,000 defenseless seniors whom he has martyred so far on the altar of Democrat liberalism.
There is a time to love and a time to hate. This is a time to hate.
A Time to Hate
It’s not too late.
Dov Fischer by DOV FISCHER
May 11, 2020, 1:02 PM
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We’ve confused actors with heroes, currency with wealth, diplomas with intelligence, propaganda with news, indoctrination with education, demands with rights, tyrants with leaders, conformity with diversity, and slander with debate.
It’s a fake world.
As long as they aren’t in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts,leftards in drag.
Then screw all that nonsense. Just get an omnibus list of all nominees that still need to be confirmed, throw them all to a vote, confirm all their nominations, and get them sworn in to the courts. And to hell with all the screaming from the Chuckles and the rest of the democrats. End of Problem.
Strategically, pushing the judges who are eligible to transition to senior status, creating vacancies makes sense. My question wood be the Senate calender. Assuming the d go full throttle in insisting on using the maximum amount of time for each nomination, how many judges could be confirmed?
Another point is that other vacancies remain in the administration. Targeting the most important executive branch positions is crucial. Radcliff to DNI is just one example. Many others in significant administrative agencies exist. These rule making positions are equally important.
My recommendation to McConnell would be to push the calender by revising the work hours of the Senate to a a 16 hour day if not a 24 hour day. Develop a rotation of Senators to hold the floor and force the d to work around the clock. Collegiality be damned.
Yes and no – mostly no. First, you’d be pushing out conservatives, because the leftists aren’t going to do anything to benefit us – witness Ginsburg. Second, the Republicans can’t be trusted to fill these slots at all, much less with conservatives – witness the current backlog and slow pace. Stop trying to push Thomas out of the court. He’s the ONLY one I completely trust. He’ll leave when he’s ready, not at the request of a bunch of self-serving politicians so he can be replaced with another Roberts.
txvet2,
I didn’t say Thomas. SCOTUS doesn’t have a SR status.
This action of nudging judges eligible for SR status to do so in order to create a vacancy would be at the Appellate level. That’s where the true value is anyway in terms of restoring balance. The appellate courts hear thousands of cases while SCOTUS only a hundred or so each year.
Realistically most cases have a ceiling at Appellate court level. This also generate decisions that are split (differ) between the circuits which is one factor in getting SCOTUS to hear the case.
So if you can create a vacancy by having a 75 year old Bush appointed judge go to SR status and get a 45 or 50 year old replacement appointed and confirmed, go for it. If a workable plan to ram through the nominees doesn’t exist, then don’t.
Greta job on the judges, but McConnell is still weasel numero uno. I do not trust him one iota.