Conservative Justice Antonius Scalia Dies; Conservatives Will Try To Obstruct

[Pokesan]

is Orrin Hatch a RHINO?

[Blitzers]

Originally Posted by Pokesan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

is Orrin Hatch a RHINO?

Orrin Hatch is a Big Government Progressive piece of shit!

[Lune]

Believe it or not, the majority of those positions of his are centrist. They only look otherwise to you because you're a radical wacko. This dude was roundly praised by the majority of Republicans during appointments to lower courts, and he's only being blocked now because of gamesmanship.

It's fun to hear you pretend him being blocked has anything to do with him personally, though.

Originally Posted by Blitzers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Constitution

President shall Nominate. - not appoint

Senate shall advise and consent. - no timeline

I would like you all to google "The Biden Rule"

Game, set, match.

Your interpretation is contrary to the consensus of American legal scholars.

And yea, we should totally ignore the spirit of the US constitution and sabotage our own high court for an entire year because the King of Gaffes said something stupid in 1992 (and you conveniently ignore the fact that he said he was willing to compromise on a moderate candidate, something the current Senate won't even consider with Garland)

As long as the SCOTUS is a 4-4 split it can't do its job. If a Senate gets to completely deny SCOTUS appointments to a lame duck presidency, then our form of government simply does not work, and we have an error in our Constitution that requires amendment. Say Hillary gets elected, why not deny appointment for another 4-8 years if you think the Senate has that power? Because it harms the country, just like it does for the 1 year we're looking at now. But Republicans in Congress don't give a shit about that. They were willing to hold the country hostage over their budget and debt ceiling brinkmanship.

Trump's not going to win anyway. They are just delaying for an even worse nomination from Hillary. And since it's a presidential election year, Republicans will possibly get washed out of Congress anyway.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Blitzers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Garland is far from moderate, he sides with big government in every case before him, he wanted to relitigate the Heller decision in an attempt to reverse the 2nd amendment, and he's an Enviro-Nazi.

This. He is an extremist.

Block him. Block him good.

[Daywolf]

0bama knows it won't happen, this is just a political move to stir trouble and enrage the libs to the voting polls... or to civil unrest again. There should be no time wasted on this, time would be better spent to censure this leftist lame duck president. Well, obviously not, but I can dream, which is nicer than the constant nightmares out of the oval office we endure.

[Pokesan]

who are these libs you're always yelling at or about? i want names

[Raev]

I just don't see Hillary winning against Trump. Trump's whole campaign revolves around him standing up for the American people against the corrupt/incompetent elites in Washington. And what better punching bag for him than Hillary Clinton? All we will hear about for the next 6 months is about how Clinton is fomenting wars in the Middle East, how she can be bought (because he did in fact pay her off to attend his wedding!), how she is owned by Wall Street, how she is incompetent (email scandals), how her primary claim to the Presidency is her vagina, how she 'sometimes tries to tell the truth', and so on. Meanwhile the economy will continue to get worse (we're already in a recession) and the average voter will get more and more frustrated and therefore receptive to Trump's 'Make America Great Again' pitch. I think there is a 75% chance Trump is elected President, a 20% chance he's assassinated by the FBI, and a 5% chance the economy miraculously recovers and Hillary wins with the help of rampant election fraud.

Ironically, Bernie probably would have had a better shot vs Trump, but the Democrats have spent the past 50 years demonizing white males, so none of their minority stooges will vote for him.

[maskedmelon]

This whole thing is utterly retarded. The language of the constitution is very simple. The constitution outlines a collaborative process for appointing justices to the SCOTUS.

"he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court..."

The Executive branch is subordinate to the Legislature in this situation.

Should the President nominate justices? Yes.

Should the Senate evaluate them? Yes.

Unfortunately the role of the SCOTUS has been perverted. It now exists as a means of subverting the power of the Legislature.

The simple fact that we openly recognize Justices as liberal/conservative is testament of the corruption.

If the court, the justices and judges of lower courts actually did their fucking jobs and interpreted law in a non-partisan fashion there wouldn't be an issue.

[Daywolf]

Originally Posted by Pokesan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

who are these libs you're always yelling at or about? i want names

"lib"? When I use it, it's usually anyone not a classic liberal or Reagan Democrat, though I usually don't mention classic liberals and just lump them in with Reagan democrats (American neoliberals), though sometimes there I just say "liberal" for them. Anyway, Progressive liberals, progressive left, degressive left, leftist, libtard, pretty much what ever is left. Would be a long list. Yelling? WHO'S YELLING?
Oh but imo most of those neoliberals went off to the libertarian party, so I might just refer to them as libertarians as they are. A few use libtard for libertarian, but I never use it that way and most don't.

[Pokesan]

that's neat that you've invented so many words to amuse yourself with, but all electable candidates are neocons so I'm left thinking you're an idiot, again.