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On 4/23/2021 at 9:04 PM, Chewbacca said:
On 4/23/2021 at 8:53 PM, RPM said:
To be fair to RBG, nobody in their right fucking mind thought Trump would win the nomination, much less the election. She expected Hillary to name her replacement.

She was the worst candidate in my lifetime. Literally the only person Trump could have beaten.

What are his chances against someone like Harris?

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On 7/1/2024 at 10:57 PM, troph said:

This decision has me in full support of a pack the court strategy. Take it to 15. Hell appoint moderates that’s fine. This court is rogue, overturning precedent left and right. This isn’t all about Trump, I don’t want a stronger executive. It’s time to reign the judicial branch back in. 

I assume we are still in favor of doing this? Now that Trump has the House and Senate he could get this done for both R and Ds? 
 

Are you still thinking 15?

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4 minutes ago, Balcones said:

I assume we are still in favor of doing this? Now that Trump has the House and Senate he could get this done for both R and Ds? 
 

Are you still thinking 15?

You won, glad you’re having fun. Go asshole on someone else, I’m not interested. 

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Just now, troph said:

You won, glad you’re having fun. Go asshole on someone else, I’m not interested. 

Fair enough. 
 

The treasure trove of pack the court ideas from a few years ago may have me up for a while. 

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3 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

You're such a pussy coming in to talk shit after the election.  Where were you the past several months?

I read your post below and felt like there was literally no reason chime in....  Seriously, though, could you have been more wrong?

 

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To be fair to RBG, nobody in their right fucking mind thought Trump would win the nomination, much less the election. She expected Hillary to name her replacement.

She was the worst candidate in my lifetime. Literally the only person Trump could have beaten.

 

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

Republicans couldn't block her replacement. Democrats could.

But it doesn't matter. 

 

Yes.  Very frustrating.  If the Democrats wanted to come back into session, vow to work throught T-giving, and Biden nominated some very young progressive, they could have it done very quickly.  McConnell has a few roadblocks he could throw up, but they are temporary.  This is just a lack of desire to retire on her part and the Dems being very Democrat: Playing Checkers while the GOP plays Football. 

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On 11/7/2024 at 3:32 PM, Frank Drebin said:

Have we ever had a SCOTUS justice who failed the bar exam on their first try?

Well, I'm going to really blow your mind: 7 Justices didn't go to law school. Although most were from the wayback.  Lots were nothing more than non-practicing attorney's who were appointed according to political connections. The current supreme court of nothing but Yale/Havard judges who graduated at the top of their class and served as lower court judges is actually atypical in US history. 

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8 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Well, I'm going to really blow your mind: 7 Justices didn't go to law school. Although most were from the wayback.  Lots were nothing more than non-practicing attorney's who were appointed according to political connections. The current supreme court of nothing but Yale/Havard judges who graduated at the top of their class and served as lower court judges is actually atypical in US history. 

Technically, do you even have to be a lawyer?

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8 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Technically, do you even have to be a lawyer?

I don't believe technically, but I do believe everyone has been an attorney of some variety, but many states either didn't have a bar exam, or it was very informal.  So attaching a "lawyer" title to a Supreme Court justice before the 1930s is a pretty damn loose term.  It pretty much meant you either graduated from law school and/or possibly took a relatively simple oral or written test.   

A lot of lawyers in the Colonial/Revelutionary times just read a bunch of books & did some indepth discussions/study with a local judge/attroney, and were declared fellow lawyers. 

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1 hour ago, David Dennison said:

Republicans couldn't block her replacement. Democrats could.

But it doesn't matter. 

I'd be careful counting Manchin as a Democrat, especially on a vote to appoint a liberal SC justice, and we all know Sinema is not to be trusted (especially as an "Independent" with a future at Fox News), which is why I referred the Dems senate majority as fragile. 

I suspect that Sotomayor is assuming the Dems wouldn't be able to get any successor "worthy of replacing her" through the Senate, which is why she's not stepping down.  The liberal justices unfortunately don't seem to be good at objectively assessing their own mortality in connection with these sorts of calculations - to the country's unfortunate peril.  I mean, what could go wrong?

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I'd be careful counting Manchin as a Democrat, especially on a vote to appoint a liberal SC justice, and we all know Sinema is not to be trusted (especially as an "Independent" with a future at Fox News), which is why I referred the Dems senate majority as fragile. 

I suspect that Sotomayor is assuming the Dems wouldn't be able to get any successor "worthy of replacing her" through the Senate, which is why she's not stepping down.  The liberal justices unfortunately don't seem to be good at objectively assessing their own mortality in connection with these sorts of calculations - to the country's unfortunate peril.  I mean, what could go wrong?

This is probably the best reason, tbh.  If you aren't 100% sure that you have a rock solid 50 are going to be with you, it makes the ability of McConnell to draw everything out much more powerful.  You need that 50+Harris standing around basically ready to take votes. 

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28 minutes ago, C-Man said:

New SCOTUS Leak Reveals Who Didn’t Want Ethics Rules Enforced

It was Clarence, Gorsuch and Alito.

I am Jack's complete lack of surprise: https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-scotus-leak-reveals-who-didnt-want-ethics-rules-enforced/

 

so 3-6 against the rule enforcement. Why isn't that enough to move forward with the recommendations? They have to be unanimous when it comes to rules against themselves? They only need a majority to rule over us.

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