McConnell is said to have the votes to confirm a new Justice...
With Chuck Grassley reversing his previous position and Cory Gardner declaring himself on board, short of some other defection, the Republicans have at least 50 votes to confirm a new Justice prior to the election.
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| Current frontrunner to be the most hated person in the minds of liberals |
So far Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are the only Republicans who are on record as being against the President nominating anyone or against the confirmation hearings. Mitt Romney has remained mum, but Mitt Romney being Mitt Romney, he will probably want to buck rather than back the President.
UPDATE: ROMNEY ON BOARD
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That being said, when push comes to shove and if a vote can actually be held before the election Collins, and Murkowski will be put to the test of voting "against" a qualified woman as the next Supreme Court Justice as some matter of principle, which would probably seal the fate of Susan Collins (who needs every conservative vote she can get a state that is increasingly becoming purple).
Now the main question becomes what can Schumer and Democrats in the Senate do to prevent this vote? Ironically, if they prove that a 47 member minority can prevent a vote like this, then they are simply providing a blue-print for how a potential Republican minority could put the same sort of wrench in the Democratic plans to overturn the filibuster and jam through a huge agenda if they win a majority.
Meanwhile Amy Coney Barrett has emerged as the odds on favorite to be the pick with Barbara Lagoa a "distant second". The question at this point isn't whether she is confirmed, but whether Democrats can find a way to prevent a vote.
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Yes Mitch will win this battle.....but the War against the GOP will just begin as the WH and senate go away to the enemy!!!!! Yep, only 62 % want them to wait....I guess that means a big win for the R's......BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! I fully expect the demise of Mitch and his liars are heading toward the end!!!!
If Ginsburg is replaced by someone like Gorsuch or Kavanaugh—and that is exactly what President Trump wants to do to energize his base going into the upcoming election—the median justice ideologically would be Brett Kavanaugh. It would mean not just six conservative justices, but five who are clearly much further to the right than the American people. Were Roberts to join the three more-liberal justices in forthcoming cases, it wouldn’t matter.
History shows that a Court well to the right of the populace is a recipe for disaster. When this occurred in the 20th century, the Court struck down the first child labor law passed by Congress and invalidated countless laws to protect workers and consumers. Facing the prospect of having the entire New Deal struck down, in 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt proposed to increase the size of the Supreme Court. Although that proposal was not enacted, it likely played a role in propelling one justice, Owen Roberts, to switch his vote to upholding New Deal programs. Retirements and deaths then let Roosevelt fill the Court with justices who upheld the laws that previously had been struck down.
I hope that four Republican senators will join the Democrats to keep this seat on the Supreme Court open until after the winner of the November 3 election is inaugurated on January 20, 2021. But if the Republicans, in an exercise of astounding hypocrisy, approve a Trump nominee before then, Democrats must be prepared to act. They must consider expanding the size of the Supreme Court to overcome how the Republicans manipulated the process to block Garland and confirm Trump’s nominee to succeed Ginsburg.
As I read Sen. Mitch McConnell’s statements immediately after Justice Ginsburg’s death that he would push the Senate to approve President Trump’s nominee to succeed her, I kept thinking of the words of Joseph Welch to Sen. Joseph McCarthy: “Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
I think we know the answer to that when it comes to Mitch McConnell. We only can hope that there are four Republicans who do have a sense of decency and will not let this vacancy on the Supreme Court be filled before the inauguration.
--Erwin Chereminsky
Someone like gorsuch and kavanaugh, whatever that means?
She has a name, and a judicial record. And dems can't accuse her of rape 40 years ago.
Money Pours Into Senate Races After Ginsburg’s Death 9:50 am EDT
New York Times:
“From Alaska to Maine to North and South Carolina, Democratic strategists working on Senate campaigns described a spontaneous outpouring of donations the likes of which they had never seen, allowing Democrats the financial freedom to broaden the map of pickup opportunities, or press their financial advantage in top battlegrounds already saturated with advertising.
“At least 13 Democratic candidates or senators raised more than $1.3 million each since Friday from a single fund-raising effort.”
Sanders Sounds Alarm on a Trump ‘Nightmare Scenario’ 9:40 am
Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to mount an aggressive campaign to counter potential attempts by President Trump to delegitimize the results of the November election, warning that Democrats and Republicans alike must do “everything that we can to prevent that from happening,” the New York Times reports.
Sanders said he would spend the next six weeks urging the country to prepare for a “nightmare scenario” in which Mr. Trump declares himself the winner of the election and refuses to step down even if he loses.
Quote of the Day
BY HE'S HIS OWN WORST ENEMY 9:36 am
“When you’re a politician, you have to shake a lot of hands. You have to shake a lot of hands. And these people are disgusting. It’s gross. And so maybe, Covid’s probably a good thing, right? I don’t have to shake hands. I don’t have to do that anymore.”
— President Trump, quoted by former White House aide Olicia Troye on the Today Show.
Jake Schneider
@jacobkschneider
Annnnd there it is: at 9:22 a.m., 42 days before the election, a lid has been called by the Biden campaign
I'm sure Biden is doing this out of respect for RGB.
What is wrong with Biden ???
This is not normal.
He's in the basement more than any historic figure I know and I'll skip naming him as libs ALWAYS bring him up.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Romney Supports Holding Vote on New Justice
“Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he would support a floor vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court, essentially clinching consideration of Trump’s nominee this year despite the impending election,” Politico reports.
“Just two Republican senators have asked for the party to put the breaks on the confirmation. And with a 53-seat majority, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) now has the votes he needs to move forward with a nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.”
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Okay, here we go. A thirteen Justice Supreme Court may be in our future.
Ironically, if they prove that a 47 member minority can prevent a vote like this, then they are simply providing a blue-print for how a potential Republican minority could put the same sort of wrench in the Democratic plans to overturn the filibuster and jam through a huge agenda if they win a majority.
i truly don't think they care.
democrats have reached the point of being political domestic terrorists, and if they have to strap rhetorical suicide vests to themselves and detonate on the floor of the US Senate they're prepared to do exactly that.
as they've said, nothing is off the table.
* any historic figure I know except one
Sen. Bernie Sanders is planning to mount an aggressive campaign to counter potential attempts by President Trump to delegitimize the results of the November election, warning that Democrats and Republicans alike must do “everything that we can to prevent that from happening,” the New York Times reports.
Simple enough...
Then both Republicans and Democrats should be on board with actively making sure that this election goes entirely 100% by the books, all of the relevant laws are followed by all involved, and that we ALL SHUT DOWN any attempts by anyone in EITHER PARTY who attempt to use a myriad of excuses to bypass or ignore or undercut the current laws.
If everyone follows their laws, then there is no need for arguments, for lawsuits, or for anyone to undermine, challenge, or otherwise reject the election results.
But I am pretty sure that this is not what Bernie is advocating. He is likely advocating using Covid as an excuse to undermine every law, ignore them, attempt to go to court to eliminate them, and then demand that the other side is to blame when things don't go their way.
i truly don't think they care.
democrats have reached the point of being political domestic terrorists, and if they have to strap rhetorical suicide vests to themselves and detonate on the floor of the US Senate they're prepared to do exactly that.
as they've said, nothing is off the table.
I saw where a California "non-partisan" official said something like he was ready to fly to Washington and sacrifice his body on the floor.
Fucking nut cases.
And look here.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Any American with any real sense of decency is concerned about the way Trump has been suggesting that no matter how legitimate the election may be, he will call it illegitimate
Any American with any real sense of decency is concerned about the way democrats have been suggesting that no matter how legitimate the Supreme Court nomination may be, they will call it illegitimate
Any American with any real sense of decency is concerned about the way democrats has been suggesting that no matter how illegitimate the election may be, they will call it legitimate.
fixed them for you
ROFLMFAO !!!
Didn't Obama actually make a Supreme Court pick right before an election and then the Senate advised ?
Doesn't everyone agree this is fine ?
The he tweeted #DOYOURJOB
This is what he ACTUALLY DID, not some hypothetical.
* then
https://trumpresearchbook.com/en/pence
The Race Is More Stable Than We Thought
Nate Cohn says an anomaly in the USC-Dornsife tracking poll falsely suggested the presidential race showed signs of tightening.
“The poll now shows a fundamentally stable race, with Mr. Biden maintaining something like a 10-point lead, rather than a volatile race that has swung from Biden plus-13 to Biden plus-7 and back. With U.S.C. showing less change, an important point in the case for substantial tightening can be crossed off the list.”
Mitt Romney caved
Trump
I will be announcing my Supreme Court Nominee on Saturday, at the White House! Exact time TBA.
heh
Preexisting conditions and Roe v Wade are going away because of the hypocrisy of the Republican party of Donald Trump
Texas has once again shattered vote registration records, adding more than 1.5 million voters since the last presidential election.
A huge turnout could have a huge advantage for Biden
(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge ordered Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to treat all election-related mail as first-class and restore overtime for U.S. Postal Service employees -- a fresh courtroom loss for the agency accused in several lawsuits of trying to undermine the coming election.
An injunction issued Monday by U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in New York directs the USPS to pre-approve all overtime sought for workers from Oct. 26 to Nov. 6 and to give first-class treatment to all election mail beginning Oct. 15. The judge cited the potential threat to the right to vote caused by operational changes instituted by DeJoy, a longtime Republican donor.
“The right to vote is too vital a value in our democracy to be left in a state of suspense in the minds of voters weeks before a presidential election, raising doubts as to whether their votes will ultimately be counted,” Marrero said.
This Is Amy Coney Barrett, The Potential RBG Replacement Who Hates Your Uterus
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/amy-coney-barrett-potential-rbg-192532438.html
U.S. Senate Race
The margins have tightened in the race for U.S. Senate with freshman Senator Gary Peters
holding on to a two-point lead over his Republican rival, John James. Forty-two percent of
polled respondents conveyed support for the incumbent, compared to 40 percent conveying their
support for James. The MRG Michigan Poll® conducted in March showed a seven-point spread
in the U.S. Senate race with Gary Peters receiving 42 percent support compared to James’ 35
percent.
WOW, this could easily FLIP from blue to red !!!
GREAT momentum and any incumbent only polling at 42 % is in real trouble !!!
Also nobody I know thinks that Republicans are being overcounted/oversampled in any of these polls...
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/2020/MRG_Michigan_September_2020.pdf
Biden leads in
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Florida
North Carolina
Arizona
Small margins in some of them, but if he gets them, we will see the biggest changes in the history of the United States of America.
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1308390673939410944?s=19
Keep counting your chickens and measuring the drapes in the basement !!!
Why all the gloom on the left ?
ROFLMFAO !!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
(Bloomberg) -- A federal judge ordered Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to treat all election-related mail as first-class and restore overtime for U.S. Postal Service employees -- a fresh courtroom loss for the agency accused in several lawsuits of trying to undermine the coming election.
LOL. election-related mail IS first class mail.
and yes, YES! please... crank up that overtime gouging, IPWU.
drive that beyond fucked up USPS completely into the ground.
it outlived it usefulness 20+ years ago.
Arthur Schwartz
@ArthurSchwartz
Asked if voters have a right to know before the election who he would nominate to SCOTUS, Biden says, “No, they don’t.”
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1308396676667838464
and then he goes down into his basement once again...
63% of Americans age 18-29 say they will “definitely be voting” in the November election, a new Harvard Youth Poll found, marking a substantial increase from 2016 and 2018 and putting youth turnout in November on track to match or exceed the 2008 election.
Students wait in line to cast their ballot at a[+]
AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
KEY FACTS
The percentage of young Americans who plan to vote far exceeds the 47% who said they definitely planned to vote ahead of the 2016 election, 40% who planned to vote in 2018 and 48% who planned to vote in 2012.
The number of respondents age 18-24 who said they definitely planned to vote in 2020 (62%) was nearly identical to the poll’s findings in 2008 (63%), which turned out to be a watershed year for voter turnout that resulted in Barack Obama’s first term and Democratic control of the Senate and House.
The findings also echo the favorability Obama had in the 2008 poll, when 59% of young voters favored him; 60% of young voters in this year’s poll favor Joe Biden.
They are pro choice and support LGBT rights
It's in the Constitution.
If you weren't a hypocrite, you would support it because of original intent philosophy
Romney didn't cave !!!
Must be an extremely strong base of support for him doing his job and representing his state.
Who would have believed it. Of course when he goes marching with BLM maybe he will change his mind.
So I'll wait before giving him real props for doing the right thing.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/09/21/more-young-voters-say-they-will-definitely-vote-this-year-than-prior-elections/
Asked if voters have a right to know before the election who he would nominate to SCOTUS, Biden says, “No, they don’t.”
https://www.bidenshortlist.com/
WOW, this could easily FLIP from blue to red !!!
What many people are forgetting about is that while the Republicans hold a 53-47 Senate advantage right now, they also have another pick up that is not considered a "battleground" in Alabama where Tommy Tuberville is leading incumbent Doug Jones by a wide margin.
So if the GOP were to pick up another seat... anywhere... then it becomes very difficult for the Democrats to regain the majority. They would have to "run the table" so to speak in every close race just to get to 50, much less 51.
Alec Sears
@alec_sears
This is every day so far in the month of September that the Biden Campaign has called a full lid before Noon
CALENDAR:
https://twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1308408738315931658
WOW, makes Hillary look like quite the workhorse.
And a lot of hiws "working" days were one and done with teleprompter answers.
Not a good look
Wonder if he will really show up for debate as well as take a drug test or cognitive test ???
if the GOP were to pick up another seat... anywhere... then it becomes very difficult for the Democrats to regain the majority. They would have to "run the table" so to speak in every close race just to get to 50, much less 51.
That Georgia poll Goddard was touting as good for Biden had Republican Senator Perdue up by 2...
If you or someone you care about are among the more than 50 million Americans suffering from pre-existing medical conditions, you should be aware that the stakes in this year’s election go beyond abstract things like, say, the survival of American democracy. They’re also personal. If Donald Trump is re-elected, you will lose the protection you’ve had since the Affordable Care Act went into effect almost seven years ago.
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has made this even more obvious. In fact, it’s now possible that coverage of pre-existing conditions will be stripped away even if Trump loses to Joe Biden, unless Democrats also take the Senate and are prepared to play serious hardball. But health care was always on the line.
Now, Trump denies this; like almost every other politician in his party, he keeps insisting that he has a plan to protect Americans with pre-existing conditions. But he and they are lying. And no, that’s not too strong a term.
On Trump: In early August he promised that he would soon release a great health care plan to replace Obamacare, probably by the end of the month. We’ve heard nothing since, which isn’t surprising, since he has made and broken similar promises many times.
It’s safe to assume that there was never any basis for these promises; there is not now and has never been a secret skunk works in the executive branch devising a brilliant new health plan.
Among other things, Trump administration officials have been too busy botching their response to the coronavirus. Did I mention that, as we pass the 200,000 deaths mark, cases appear to be rising again?
But we would know that Republicans are lying about pre-existing conditions even if Trump hadn’t established such a remarkable record of serial dishonesty. For the fundamental logic of health policy says that if you want to protect pre-existing conditions, you either have to have the government provide health insurance directly, as it does with Medicare and Medicaid, or use a combination of strict regulation and subsidies to induce private insurers.
And if you do try to rely on private insurers, the necessary system of regulation and subsidies will, inevitably, look a lot like Obamacare.
To protect people with pre-existing conditions, you must prevent insurers from discriminating based on medical history — which includes imposing minimum standards, so that they can’t offer cheap, minimalist plans that appeal only to the healthy while charging exorbitant premiums on plans that help those who really need care.
You also need to induce healthy people to sign up for coverage, which means providing financial incentives to do so — especially generous subsidies to working-class adults.
In other words, you need a system very similar to the one America has had since 2014, when the Affordable Care Act went fully into effect. That system can and should be made better, but this would require spending more, not less — which is, in fact, what Biden is proposing.
None of this is news. The G.O.P.’s inability to come up with a superior alternative to Obamacare was put on stark display in 2017, when Republicans came very close to enacting their own health care plan.
At the time, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would cause 32 million Americans to lose health insurance — and even that number understated the likely damage, because those still buying insurance would have faced sharply higher premiums.
How does Ginsburg’s death affect the health care outlook? The Trump administration is backing a lawsuit, now before the Supreme Court, claiming that a fairly minor provision in the 2017 tax cut somehow rendered the whole Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. It’s a ludicrous argument — but Republican judges in lower courts have backed it anyway, and a court without Ginsburg is more likely to let partisanship override any pretense of respect for logic.
The odds that the court will destroy Obamacare, and with it protection for pre-existing conditions, will obviously go up if Trump is able to install a right-wing partisan to replace Ginsburg. And even if this particular attempt to take away health insurance from millions falls short, it’s a safe bet that a court with a 6-3 conservative majority will find some excuse to undermine the protections Americans have come to count on.
Indeed, such a court might well try to strike down Obamacare even if Trump loses.
So are Americans with pre-existing conditions doomed? Not if Democrats take the Senate as well as the White House. If they do that, they’ll be in a position to quickly reinstate an improved version of Obamacare soon after Biden is sworn in.
And yes, adding seats to the court will have to be on the table. Spare me talk about norms. Between Trump’s lawlessness and Mitch McConnell’s naked power plays, Republicans have forfeited any right to complain if Democrats legally act to protect the well-being of millions of Americans.
So once again, if you or someone you care about has a pre-existing condition, be aware that your fate is very much on the ballot this year.
Paul Krugman
oh boy.
the kiddies really, really promise to get out and vote this time.
LOL.
promise.
LOL.
Graham is in danger. Montana is tired.
Arizona will flip.
If it ends up in the tie,then the Vice President Harris can vote.
Paul Krugman
hey Agolf,
you don't get to bitch about out of control spending & deficits and debt, while peddling keynesian krugman's failed prescriptions.
“If President Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett, Notre Dame Law Professor, Appeals Court judge, mother of 7 (2 adopted from Haiti), clerk for Scalia, devout Catholic, it will pose a unique challenge for Kamala Harris — the most anti-Catholic bigot nominated in over a century,” tweeted Gingrich.
“Are Democrats prepared to say a devout Catholic is by definition unfit to serve on the Supreme Court?” he continued. “If no pro-life Justice is acceptable then no faithful Catholic, Evangelical or Orthodox Jew can be considered. Are Democrats really prepared to alienate that many Americans?”
Harris famously wondered aloud if Nebraska district judge Brian Buescher was fit to serve because he was involved with the Knights of Columbas, a Catholic charity organization.
“Since 1993, you have been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised primarily of Catholic men,” said Harris. “In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of Columbus, described abortion as ‘a legal regime that has resulted in more than 40 million deaths.’ Mr. Anderson went on to say that ‘abortion is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale.’ Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?”
Harris isn’t the only Democrat that has shown an anti-Catholic bias. In 2017, California Democrat Senator Diane Feinstein told Barrett herself that her “domgma lives loudly” within her.
“Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that dogma and law are two different things, and I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different,” said Feinstein. “And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern.”
https://www.redstate.com/brandon_morse/2020/09/21/gingrich-harris-barrett/
yet biden and peloshee never miss an opportunity to tell us what DEVOUT catholics they are.
Georgia is the only Democratic senator is at risk.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trump has announced his pick for Supreme Court justice: Joe Biden. By nominating Biden, Trump has forced the Dems' hands, making them believe the sexual assault claims and allegations of inappropriate, creepy behavior against the former vice president.
The "4D chess" move forced Dems to immediately accuse Joe Biden of sexual assault and reverse their position on the current claims against him.
"We now believe Tara Reade," said a somber Kamala Harris, "and we will do everything in our power to destroy this man's life."
In addition to believing current claims against Joe Biden, Democrats also immediately dug up 417 new accusers against Joe Biden. He has been accused of participating in wild frat parties, drunken keggers, and something called the "Devil's Triangle," which Dems say is either a Satanic ritual or code for a sexual practice or "maybe both."
"It's clear this man is dangerous and cannot be trusted," said Nancy Pelosi. "We call on the Senate to turn down his nomination and run him out of public life."
Biden released a statement, saying, "I just want to go home and see my grandkids again." His mic was cut off and he was pulled off the stage with a shepherd's crook.
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-trump-nominates-joe-biden-to-supreme-court/
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Georgia is the only Democratic senator is at risk.
Seeing as how Perdue and Loefler are both Republicans, I guess it’s our senator that represent the GA gulf coast, eh Alky
Roger Amick said...
Georgia is the only Democratic senator is at risk.
Must admit I'm not to up on this but just to be clear you are saying Jones is safe in Alabama despite being down double digits in the polls ?
Doug Jones(D) — Alabama is at risk
Slow Joe an da Ho are at risk.
LOL.
Another country lead by a conservative leader has a problem.
LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people on Tuesday to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to close early to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of COVID-19 with new restrictions lasting probably six months.
After scientific warnings that deaths could soar without urgent action, Johnson stopped short of another full lockdown as he did in March, but warned that further measures could come if the disease was not suppressed.
"We reserve the right to deploy greater firepower, with significantly greater restrictions," he told parliament following emergency meetings with ministers and leaders of the United Kingdom's devolved governments.
Our esteemed President said that it will just dissapear.
Biden (D) Trump (R) Spread
RCP Average 9/7 - 9/21 49.5 43.0 Biden +6.5
IBD/TIPP 9/16 - 9/19 50 44 Biden +6
NBC/WSJ 9/13 - 9/16 51 43 Biden +8
YouGov 9/13 - 9/15 51 42 Biden +9
NPR/PBS 9/11 - 9/16 52 43 Biden +9
Rasmussen 9/9 - 9/15 46 47 Trump +1
USC 9/15 - 9/21 51 42 Biden +9
Reuters 9/11 - 9/15 50 41 Biden +9
The Hill 9/10 - 9/14 45 39 Biden +6
JTN/RMG* 9/10 - 9/12 48 43 Biden +5
FOX News 9/7 - 9/10 51 46 Biden +5
Now ALL of the Biden double digit leads have disappeared eh.
And we haven't even got to the debate yet
Nor democrat theatrics against a woman Supreme Court appointment.
Nor hearing from the silent majority.
I kind of like our odds.
Georgia
Ga.
Sep 11-20, 2020
1,150 LV
University of Georgia
Loeffler
24%
Collins
21%
Warnock
20%
Lieberman
11%
Tarver
5%
Slowinski
3%
Ga.
Sep 11-20, 2020
1,150 LV
University of Georgia
Ossoff
45%
Perdue
47%
Hazel
4%
Ga.
Sep 11-20, 2020
1,406 LV
Morning Consult
Ossoff
44%
Perdue
43%
A large turnout in November may swing left
Some morning cheer
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1308410362103037952
Collins is another republican running against Loefler the republican
These people are the "silent majority "
In 2016, much of his support came from voters who disliked Hillary Clinton, liked Trump's rhetoric on trade and immigration, but consider themselves abortion rights supporters — especially nonevangelical, blue-collar women. And, these voters remain up for grabs in 2020.
The Republican decision to replace RPG with an anti abortion justice will backfire on the Republicans.
Ninth Circuit Court Overturns Death Of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a landmark ruling, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a close decision, the judges on the court have ruled RBG's death unconstitutional and will block Trump from nominating a replacement.
Kim McLane Wardlaw, the judge who issued the ruling, said in a statement: "Justice Ginsburg's death was an affront to the constitution as well as our God-given right to abort as many babies as possible and sell their body parts for research. Death, at its core, is a construct designed to subvert the rule of law by taking pro-choice liberal judges away from us too soon. We cannot allow Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death to stand. By law, she will now be considered to be still alive."
Trump slammed the ruling as "idiotic" and called the court judges "a bunch of morons." Republicans pounced on this ruling like tigers that pounce on their prey before ruthlessly tearing it to pieces with their razor-sharp claws. "This is a terrible ruling because we're racist and we hate women," said a bunch of Republicans, according to anonymous sources.
Judge Wardlaw followed up on her ruling, saying: "We hereby rule any attempt by President Trump to appoint a replacement to be unconstitutional. We will block any attempt until we figure out a way to resurrect her or maybe clone her and restore her to her already 'legally alive' state. We're still figuring that part out."
Caliphate4vr said...
Collins is another republican running against Loefler the republican
I'm really hoping Collins wins out just judging between the two. Not sure how it plays in general.
https://www.facebook.com/100055586221467/posts/105079764688231/
Republicans are putting out some tremendous videos to try and flip the house back. And I suspect they have a much better chance than people realize.
Example:
Big Dan Rodimer for Congress NV-03
@DanRodimer
US House candidate, NV-3
America is Hungover from Democrat Policies.
I have had enough. I used to fight heavyweights in the ring, now I'm ready to fight for all of Nevadans.
That’s why I’m running for Congress.
Please HELP ME knock some common sense into Washington!
FANTASTIC VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/DanRodimer/status/1308250073063587840
https://youtu.be/8UOzJGPVzRQ
Babylon bee is a fucking propagandist bullshit
Trafalgar Group polls: outliers with uncanny knack for accurately sampling Trump vote
Maverick pollster Robert Cahaly has honed techniques for finding Trump voters veiled by "social-desirability bias."
The Trafalgar Group, a Georgia-based polling firm known for its ability to correctly sample hard-to-reach, conservative Trump voters, shows President Trump with leads in the key battleground states of North Carolina, Florida and Michigan.
During the 2016 presidential race — widely predicted wrong by the mainstream polling establishment —the Trafalgar Group was the only pollster within the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator to show candidate Donald Trump defeating rival Hillary Clinton in Michigan. Their polls in 2016 also showed Donald Trump winning Pennsylvania — again, they were nearly alone in projecting Trump's narrow victory there — and thus taking the White House.
RealClearPolitics founder and president Tom Bevan recently praised the accuracy of Trafalgar's chief pollster Robert Cahaly's prognosticating abilities.
"Cahaly's success continued in 2018, most conspicuously in Florida," Bevan wrote. "He was one of the few pollsters whose data showed Ron DeSantis beating Andrew Gillum in the Florida gubernatorial race and Rick Scott besting incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson in the Senate race. Cahaly's firm, the Trafalgar Group, has emerged from the last two political cycles as one of the most accurate polling operations in America."
Cahaly last week posted a North Carolina poll showing Trump with a slight lead over Biden, though most other pollsters in the RCP average had Biden ahead:
"Our new @trafalgar_group #2020Election #NC #Battlegroundstate #NC #poll conducted Sept 9-11 shows a Trump lead: 47.8% @realDonaldTrump, 46.1% @JoeBiden, 2.0% all others, 2.5% Und. See Report: https://thetrafalgargroup.org/news/nc-pres-0920/ "
continues:
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/trafalgar-group-pollsters-find-hard-reach-trump-voters-shows-potus-ahead
Collins was Trump’s wish but Kemp wanted Loefler, I think Collins will win
Trump called it a lie.
NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg, a longtime friend of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, reported that the justice had dictated the following statement to granddaughter Clara Spera, a lawyer, days before she died on Friday: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed."
Several people were there.
September 22, 2020 at 12:53 PM
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Babylon bee is a fucking propagandist bullshit
It’s called satire Alky, but they really hit close to home
Incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) is trailing her challenge, Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon (D), by 5 points, according to a new Boston Globe-Suffolk University poll.
The poll, released on Monday, found that 46 percent of likely Maine voters said they favored Gideon, while 41 percent said they same about Collins. Additionally, only 45 percent of respondents said they had a favorable view of Collins, while another 45 percent viewed her unfavorably. Gideon, on the other hand, had a favorable rating of 56 percent and a 37 percent unfavorable rating.
The survey comes as a number of polls show an uphill battle for Collins, who has served in the upper chamber for more than 20 years. She was easily reelected in 2014, scoring almost 70 percent of the vote in Maine.
This year, the RealClearPolitics polling average shows Gideon leading Collins by 6 points. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report rates the race as a toss-up. And on Monday, Sabato's Crystal Ball, the election handicapper at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, shifted the race from from "toss-up" to "lean Democratic."
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https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2020/09/21/more-young-voters-say-they-will-definitely-vote-this-year-than-prior-elections/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=16007900192036&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Falisondurkee%2F2020%2F09%2F21%2Fmore-young-voters-say-they-will-definitely-vote-this-year-than-prior-elections%2F
And of course the Alky posts something that breaks the coding for iOS
Lolololol
Your an idiot
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trump has announced his pick for Supreme Court justice: Joe Biden. By nominating Biden, Trump has forced the Dems' hands, making them believe the sexual assault claims and allegations of inappropriate, creepy behavior against the former vice president.
https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-trump-nominates-joe-biden-to-supreme-court/
Learn how to post a url you dumbass
Traitors????
In a dramatic reversal, one of the world's biggest makers of coal-fired power plants is to exit the market and focus on greener alternatives.
US industrial giant General Electric said it would shut or sell sites as it prioritised its renewable energy and power generation businesses.
It comes ahead of a US Presidential election in which the candidates hold starkly different views on coal.
NGO the Natural Resources Defense Council said the move was "about time".
GE has said in the past it would focus less on fossil fuels, reflecting the growing acceptance of cleaner energy sources in US power grids.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54242055?fbclid=IwAR0vLLk7gJ9UXFsdb9dLQkN9_IfYLDlUzk_NZH9V37bnoylBoBHC4ToCKHk
GE has said in the past it would focus less on fossil fuels, reflecting the growing acceptance of cleaner energy sources in US power grids.
there's a reason why GE stock has been dead money for fucking DECADES.
it hasn't been worth a shit since Jack Welch retired.
GE needs to focus on survival.
It’s called satire Alky, but they really hit close to home
the alky is the only person i know who thinks the borowitz report is funny.
And his link broke the thread for anyone using an iPad
We have an impeached president who lost the popular vote and will lose the popular vote a second time in 2020. This will be the third time that has happened in the past six elections.
We have a House of Representatives districted and gerrymandered in such a way that even a large, 6-point victory by Democrats in the popular vote in November wouldn’t give them a majority of seats.
We have a Senate elected by a skewed, unusually white cross-section of America, where the median Senate seat is substantially more conservative than the median American voter.
We have a Supreme Court that is dismantling one party’s political economic base and helping preserve, even strengthen, the other party’s anti-majoritarian hold on power.
We have a political base in the GOP that has willingly fallen prey to outlandish conspiracy theory with full-on religious zealotry. Tribalism and a cult of personality has replaced any political platform. The GOP stands for “Owning the Libs” and little less.
This is what Tyranny of the Minority looks like in real time...
It will just dissapear
https://youtu.be/eY35roPA4Sw
This is what Tyranny of the Minority looks like in real time...
no, this is what the whining of thousands of whiny bitches and antifa/BLM scumbags looks like in real time.
stop trying to cheat your way to permanent power.
and stop trying to make the entire nation succumb to the whims of NY & CA. people are fucking FLEEING those two shitholes.
Effeminate Tantrum
"Okay, here we go. A thirteen Justice Supreme Court may be in our future."
publicly crushed Alky.
"Roger AmickSeptember 22, 2020 at 9:59 AM
Mitt Romney caved"
He said he is following the US Constitution.
"stop trying to make the entire nation succumb to the whims of NY & CA. people are fucking FLEEING those two shitholes."
Exactly correct RRB.
Handmaid's Tale? U.S. Supreme Court candidate's religious community under scrutiny -- AS A CULT?
By Daniel Trotta 4 MIN READ
(Reuters) - Some have likened People of Praise, a self-described charismatic Christian community, to the totalitarian, male-dominated society of Margaret Atwood’s novel “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
Others call it an ultraconservative group with an unusual mix of Roman Catholic and Pentecostal traditions.
In any case there has been renewed interest in the group since U.S. President Donald Trump put one of its purported members, Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh District Court of Appeals, on his short list of candidates for elevation to the Supreme Court.
The group has declined to confirm or deny whether Barrett was a member since a New York Times article in 2017 said she was in the group, citing unnamed current and former members.
The group’s spokesman declined initial requests from Reuters for comment and said Overall Coordinator Craig Lent was unavailable for an interview. The spokesman later agreed to take questions by email but did not immediately respond.
Barrett did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for comment made through a clerk at the Seventh Circuit.
People of Praise has about 1,700 members in 22 cities in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, according to its website, and was founded in 1971 in South Bend, Indiana, also the home of the Catholic-led University of Notre Dame.
“We admire the first Christians who were led by the Holy Spirit to form a community,” the website says, tracing its origins to the late 1960s when students and faculty at Notre Dame experienced “a renewal of Christian enthusiasm and fervor, together with charismatic gifts such as speaking in tongues and physical healing.”
Its most devoted members make a lifelong commitment to the group, known as a covenant.
From 1970 until recently, women with leadership roles in the organization were called handmaids, but the popularity of the 2017-to-present Hulu television series “The Handmaid’s Tale,” based on Atwood’s 1985 book, appears to have led to a change.
“Recognizing that the meaning of this term has shifted dramatically in our culture in recent years, we no longer use the term handmaid,” the group said after the 2018 media interest.
Coral Anika Theill, a former People of Praise member from decades ago, has described the group as an abusive cult in which women are completely obedient to men and independent thinkers are humiliated, interrogated, shamed and shunned.
Theill, who self-published a book about how her ex-husband dragged her through a number of religious groups, said she was campaigning to stop Barrett from being nominated.
Theill left People of Praise in 1984 but said she has remained in contact with others associated with the group, believing little had changed. Last year she wrote a blog post entitled “I lived the Handmaid’s Tale.”
“A lot of us suffered Stockholm syndrome and many of the women were on anti-depressants and tranquilizers,” Theill said. “If you were super submissive, maybe you wouldn’t be dragged in the middle of the night to an interrogation meeting.”
Thomas Csordas, a scholar of comparative religion at the University of California, San Diego, said he would not consider People of Praise a cult, instead saying it was “very conservative.”
IT'S A CULT:
"IF YOU WERE SUPER SUBMISSIVE, MAYBE YOU WOULDN'T BE DRAGGED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO AN INTERROGATION MEETING."
WHAT KIND OF FANATICISM IS THAT?
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