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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RIP

18 September 2020

George Rebane

Justice Ginsburg was a great lady and a great jurist. Her record speaks for itself. The paeans to her accomplished career have already started, and deservedly so. As most readers know, I did not share her social and political orientation. Nevertheless, I can say that she was from the age when Democrats and Republicans still believed whoever the American electorate voted into office, that they were then the legitimate holders of that office and deserved to serve without the other party launching a campaign of subterfuge to sabotage their term and malign their character.

So with 46 days until the election, now starts a whole new political battle over her successor. The choice and timely empanelment of the new appointee to fill Justice Ginsburg’s seat will be a critical requirement, since it is almost certain that SCOTUS will have a hand in determining November’s outcome at more than one level. And for those rulings we need a full court that cannot be irresolute.

My own preference is that President Trump immediately puts forth an appropriately vetted and qualified conservative jurist, and that Majority Leader McConnell gets the Senate to hold hearings and give its imprimatur to the new justice with all prudent haste.

Posted in Critical Thinking & Numeracy, Culture Comments, Happenings, Our Country

97 responses to “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg – RIP”

Gregory

18 September 2020

If the seat isn’t filled before the election, there will be a record turnout of Democrats.
If the seat is filled before the election, there will not be a record tunout of Democrats. Dems may collapse.
Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!

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Bill Tozer

18 September 2020

Well, if nothing else, Joe Biden will catch another break. All the attention will be on arguing about wait or not, have Scotus hearings in the Senate or not to have hearings, old quotes from Biden himself…..while Joe escapes the attention and spotlight. Man, it’s that guy lucky or not? He dodged another bullet. And that’s no malarkey.
Did find Chucky Schumer’s tweet somewhat puzzling. No vote until we have a new President? But, but, but I don’t think our nation can hold off until 2024. We need a fully seated Supreme Court. It’s one of the three branches of government Punchy told us and I can’t imagine our country going 4 more years without a full court. It would hurt trust in our institutions.

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scenes

18 September 2020

Is Amy Coney Barrett the leading contendah? It’s not the sort of thing I keep track of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Coney_Barrett
Not bad at all. I like this ‘originalist’ word of which they speak.

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scenes

18 September 2020

ooh. lots of wikipedia edits today for Judge Barrett. It’s starting.

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Bill Tozer

18 September 2020

“It’s starting.” Not much for them to do. Trump, unlike Biden, has put out his list of candidates for public consumption many many moons ago. Every one on the list or not on the list but rumored to be under consideration already has had mega megabucks negative research on each one of them. The Dossiers have been completed years ago, (with the occasional updates) and all they need to do now is to blow some dust off the files— exactly like the Obama Administration did as soon as soon as they heard that Manafort might be considered for the volunteer unpaid Trump Campaign Manager…..but I digress.
If they can turn Brett Kavanaugh into some monster heartless teen age rapist ring leader in high school, just imagine what we can expect next. I believe it will be blatantly transparent. Wonder who the next Great White Hope Michael Avenatti will be? Bet he or she gets featured over 110 times on CNN within a 60 day timespan. Then we will know.
But it’s those wild stories that I live for.. ‘Children, please leave the room’ warnings wild.
Wonder what those Hollywood script writers will come up with next. Only limited by one’s imagination. Wasn’t Ben Rhodes a Hollywood script writer before he jumped straight over to Team Obama? Go directly to WH, do not pass Go. By Golly, he was. From Hollywood to top aide. Peddled some real good ones over in the White House.
Did like how Rhodes told NY Mag that the press today doesn’t know anything about the world around them, believe everything you tell them, airheads. He basically said the Press he met are just a bunch of young college kids about 26 who recently had followed some campaign and that’s all the journalism experience they have. Now they are covering WH Policy, lol. Yum, yum.
The Steele Dossier script (with obvious name and place corrections to reflex current times) can be found as written peddled in 2008 to Hillary Clinton to go after Obama….by one Glen Simpson. Great script. Hillary said she didn’t need it against Barrack, being the Chosen One and all.
Lay those good ear twitching stories on me.

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Barry Pruett

19 September 2020

“ Harry Reid will go down in history for having handed the court to conservatives when he took the first step toward eliminating the 60 vote requirement for confirmation.” #truenews

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Gregory

19 September 2020

The Ugliness Started With Bork, Thanks To Joe Biden (who has taken all the credit)
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/opinion/nocera-the-ugliness-all-started-with-bork.html

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scenes

19 September 2020

It’ll all be extra exciting if you get the following.
. (D) ‘investigating’ team proves Russian prostitutes were enjoyed by (let’s say) Barrett in an exotic fashion. All on Putin’s VISA.
. Paul and all the strong powerful women let their freak flag fly
. 4 (R) Senators vote agin’ the candidate (I think this is the right number)
. Pence votes for
. Presidential election is contested resulting in some sort of Supreme court decision.
. Flammable things burn throughout the land. Fire is the Left’s new method of voting.
All perfectly legal, but the Blue Mob has thrown law aside as a mere nicety.

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scenes

19 September 2020

The Democrats speak:
https://twitter.com/JoshLekach/status/1307200251787313152

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Bill Tozer

19 September 2020

Scenes @ 9:17 am
Lol. That white gal on your post is all upset that RBG died and she is now blaming Justice Ginsberg for not holding on longer and kicking the bucket before the election. Well, wack job lady, take Ruth to court and sue her for dying, you lefty screaming bag of grunt sandwiches.
RIP Justice Ginsberg.
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The pragmatist in me says it’s too close to the election to even think about appointing a replacement for Justice Ginsberg, not to mention going through the quite ugly nomination process. Salem Witch Trails, Year Zero edition. But, then again, there is always that awful bull in the China Shop with a Twitter machine that may see things differently.
‘Trump isn’t likely to shrink from Supreme Court fight in election year: Goodwin’
https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/trump-not-likely-to-shrink-from-supreme-court-fight-in-election-year-goodwin/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd85ozj0p8o

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Barry Pruett

19 September 2020

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ginsburg-death-burn-it-down-threats
Democrats are simply domestic terrorists.

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Gregory

19 September 2020

Toes 934am
McConnell just needs the short-short version
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5X4HYA-lB-U

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Walt

19 September 2020

Still no picks from Joementia? Gotta elect him to find out who they are?

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

That’s right –
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2020/09/19/marsha-blackburn-there-precedent-short-confirmation-process/
😉

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scenes

19 September 2020

If they fire up some judge confirmation hoohaw, we should have a pool for when the Democratic Senators all fire up their Segways and roll out. You know there’s bound to be some sort of made-for-TV deal similar to that, probably already in the plan. It’ll be like a high school student council making some sort of silly political statement.

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Barry Pruett

19 September 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/19/politics/package-poison-ricin-addressed-to-trump-intercepted/index.html
Democrats are domestic terrorists

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scenes

19 September 2020

“But, then again, there is always that awful bull in the China Shop with a Twitter machine that may see things differently.”
. IF YOU HAVE A NOMINATION WE’LL BURN DOWN YOUR HOME
. IF YOU DON’T HAVE A NOMINATION, well, WE’LL BURN DOWN YOUR HOME
We’ll have to look to our local news team for guidance on this. Maybe there’s some way forward where we can save the garage or something.
Now they’re even going after dogs.
“Philadelphia: #Antifa black bloc militants smash up a car that has a dog in the back. Far-left rioters gathered today to oppose a right-wing event at Clark Park. ”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1307397954655776769
Truth is, it was probably a right-wing dog. (hint: they all are)

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

Discussing Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement doesn’t ‘dishonor’ her, Brit Hume says
https://www.foxnews.com/media/brit-hume-ginsburg-replacement-dying-wish
😉

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

Here is why –
Graham, who posted his comments to Twitter on Saturday afternoon, said that his decision to back President Trump was driven by two factors — former Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-NV) judicial confirmation rule changes and the Democrats’ ultimately unsuccessful attempt to derail Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanugh’s nomination to the high court.
“The two biggest changes regarding the Senate and judicial confirmations that have occurred in the last decade have come from Democrats,” Graham wrote. “In light of these two events, I will support President @realDonaldTrump in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/19/lindsey-graham-says-he-backs-trump-in-any-effort-to-move-forward-on-rbg-vacancy/
😉

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paul emery

19 September 2020

Well at least Lindsey Graham won’t support a appointing a new Justice til the election is over. He can’t be more specific than this:
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,”
https://www.businessinsider.com/lindsey-graham-2016-vacancies-should-not-be-filled-election-years-2020-9
And here:
“I’ll tell you this – this may make you feel better, but I really don’t care – if an opening comes in the last year of President Trump’s term, and the primary process has started, we’ll wait until the next election,” Graham said during a forum with The Atlantic. His comments came at the tail end of the confirmation process for Trump’s most recent Supreme Court pick, Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-09-18/lindsey-graham-in-2018-senate-wont-vote-on-scotus-pick-in-last-year-of-trump-term
And here:

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

Uh you seemed to have overlooked @147 oh great pony tail of ignorance.
😉

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Gregory

19 September 2020

Regarding RBG’s desire to not be replaced by the current President… I’m surprised that she’d make that request known to her granddaughter, who is also a lawyer. RBG had every opportunity to resign during the Obama years when she could have been replaced by a ‘friendly’… and she took a risk that Trump would beat Hillary C. in 2016. Who knows, after her bench buddy Antonin passed away, she might have been able to swing a deal to get Garland a hearing if she’d resign then, but she didn’t, preferring to roll the die and hope to live until Jan 2021.
That didn’t work out. Oh well, lesson learned. It won’t help RBG secure a legacy more to her liking, but maybe Justice Thomas will take heed…

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scenes

19 September 2020

“I’m surprised that she’d make that request known to her granddaughter, who is also a lawyer.”
I expect that it’s a bit of a fib, but it doesn’t really matter.
This is her, no?
https://www.equaljusticeworks.org/fellows/clara-spera/
All of these people are partisan up to their eyebrows.

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Bill Tozer

19 September 2020

Let’s see how our friends on the Dark Side are taking the news of RBG’s passing. I assume they are in deep mourning, probably feeling down. That’s normal. My condolences. I assume our friends are handling the loss in a dignified adult manner in this hour of sorrow.
Darn it. Never assume.
‘You Killed RBG’: Leftists Attack Couple Who Had Supreme Court Justice Officiate Their August Wedding
https://www.dailywire.com/news/you-killed-rbg-leftists-attack-couple-who-had-supreme-court-justice-officiate-their-august-wedding
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Standing in solidarity with Scenes’s 9:17 am this morn, I feel a wee pit of piling on might lift my spirits as I am bummed out and in the first of three long long days of mourning. There goes my weekend plans. Bet Trump has the cure for RBG’s cancer, but is holding off for some late October Surprise to steal the election. Bastard. Trump puts politics before people’s lives! He couldn’t wait until her body was cold!! Or maybe not.
Nothing that Scenes from Year Zero has not already posted. Even a mention of the twitter freak out white woman driver video. The early bird catches the worm.
THE DEMOCRATIC SUPREME COURT FREAKOUT
“A real portrait in self-control. Just imagine her reaction if Trump is re-elected. Let the memes commence!”
“P.S. Yes—it has occurred to me that the shrieking woman in the video is fake—a right-wing performance artist. I suspect we’ll find out that it is genuine and not a fake, and the problem with faking something like this is, how could you tell? You can find crazy shrieking like this in videos from just about every “peaceful” protest of the last few months, usually white women screaming at black police officers, because racism or something.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/the-democratic-supreme-court-freakout.php

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

Now that’s interesting –
“a substantial majority” of respondents, or 67 percent, believe the Senate should proceed with confirmation hearings this year if a vacancy occurred. Most notably, the survey found that the majority view does not tend to vary by party affiliation.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/19/majority-said-senate-should-hold-confirmation-hearings-this-year-fill-scotus-vacancy/
😉

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

Will they follow this advice from RBG? –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/19/ruth-bader-ginsberg-denounced-democrat-push-to-stack-supreme-court/
😉

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Don Bessee

19 September 2020

Someone has to be the adult in the room –
Penny Nance: After Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death conservative women are ready to fight for Trump’s nominee
Senators, like parents, must ignore the tantrums from the left after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-trumps-nominee-penny-nance
😉

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Bill Tozer

19 September 2020

Thanks for letting us know who is behind the riots, lol.
‘Media Figures Threaten Riots If GOP Tries To Fill SCOTUS Seat: Burn It All Down’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-figures-threaten-riots-if-gop-tries-to-fill-scotus-seat-burn-it-all-down?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dwbrand
They don’t call him the Grim Reaper for nothing. Or Cocaine Mitch or Moscow Mitch.

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Bill Tozer

19 September 2020

@BuckSexton
“Would seem almost impossible for the Democrat base to be more psycho and destructive than they’ve been so far this year-
But everyone knows that they will 100% find a way to reach new heights of lunacy over this SCOTUS vacancy.
Be like injecting meth into a rabid squirrel”
https://mobile.twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1307396146780950528

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Walt

19 September 2020

Nadler is about to strangle himself with his own belt.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/19/democrats-pack-supreme-court-trump-nominates-ruth-ginsburg-seat/
“Prominent Democrats are threatening to expand the size of the Supreme Court to cancel out President Donald Trump’s court picks if Republicans vote on late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s replacement this year.”
Just think. Trump wins anyway,(without seating a replacement)
The mary band of lunatic LIBS will demand “the next President” have the honors.

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scenes

20 September 2020

Paul Emery: “Well at least Lindsey Graham won’t support a appointing a new Justice til the election is over. He can’t be more specific than this:”

I wouldn’t work too hard to find clips of Republicans calling for waiting for choosing a Justice. It works both ways old son.

“Just dug up this clip of Obama in 2016:
“When there is a vacancy on the SCOTUS, the President is to nominate someone, the Senate is to consider that nomination… There’s no unwritten law that says that it can only be done on off-years. That’s not in the Constitution text.””

https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1307325966314864651

“@JoeBiden in 2016:
“I would go forward with a confirmation process as chairman, even a few months before a presidential election, if the nominee were chosen with the advice, and not merely the consent, of the Senate, just as the Constitution requires.””
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1307349593710120966

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Barry Pruett

20 September 2020

Attacking Amy Coney Barrett over the fact that she believes in God and is a devout Catholic is not going to go over well in a nation where nearly 90% of the citizens believe in God as well. Her nomination will expose Progressive democrats for what they are – atheists who don’t share the most common beliefs held by the vast majority of Americans.
Also Barbara Lagoa is a Cuban-American. Politically her nomination puts race-baiting Democrats in a box. How do they oppose a Latina when they need such voting block?
I say go for it. Let’s have the debate. #filltheseat

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Larry Wirth

20 September 2020

Maybe Republicans should pre-empt and enlarge the Court themselves, packing it with enough conservatives the Dims can’t undo it for a century…
How about it, Keach, Rx, evil twins? If it’s good idea when you do it, it must be a good idea, right?

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George Rebane

20 September 2020

LarryW 1023am – What a concept Lar. Doubt it could be done before January, but if Repubs keep the WH and Senate, it should at least receive serious considerations given the Democrats’ stated intent.

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D

20 September 2020

RBG Matters!

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D

20 September 2020

Collins and Murkowski come out with a “no on SCOTUS vote” prior to the election.

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D

20 September 2020

Lindsay Graham already said in 2016 he was against that idea,
“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,” he said four years ago when arguing against then-President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland.”

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D

20 September 2020

Barry, religion is a non-issue to all but the most wackydoodle. SCOTUS needs a Muslim jurist, or two.

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George Rebane

20 September 2020

D 1103am – Another sample of liberal logic – why would SCOTUS “need a Muslim jurist, or two” if “religion is a non-issue”?

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Scott O

20 September 2020

Duh 11:03 “Barry, religion is a non-issue to all but the most wackydoodle.”
Yep – those ecologists are a bunch of wackydoodles!
scenes 7:46 – “It works both ways old son.”
Ah – but Republican hypocrisy is BAD hypocrisy, and Dem hypocrisy is GOOD hypocrisy.
It’s the same thing as when the Dems lie. That’s GOOD lying.

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Don Bessee

20 September 2020

Where is your list creepy grampa joe –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-condemns-push-to-fast-track-ginsburg-replacement-as-exercise-in-raw-political-power
😉

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Bill Tozer

20 September 2020

Can you say dumber than a sack of hammers?
“Barry, religion is a non-issue to all but the most wackydoodle. SCOTUS needs a Muslim jurist, or two.”
Of contraire, my good fellow/madam with no noticeable matter between the ears. I have been following the rumored Amy pic for least 26 months. Senator Harris and the Dem Senators have steady grilled the shit out of any Catholic or religious person Trump has appointed to the circuit courts. Not just judges, any high ranking Cabinet member nominee. And not just on abortion.which the Catholic Church believes is cold bloodied murder. Kind of the old JKF Catholic Test…or Mitt Romney. It’s he going to follow the Pope or the Grand Mormon leader or the law??
It now has gotten sooo bad on the Dem side (the children of the Father of lies and darkness) that somebody on the R side had to pull out the US Constitution a year or two ago and read to all the most WACKKYDODDLES that it is unconstitutional to require a religious test for office/position.
And now Duh, the fence post with a face painted on it says, says that we need a Mooslum jurist or two. Stupid is as stupid does. No religious test allowed. Period. My apologies to disparaging a fence post…and a sack of hammers.

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Don Bessee

20 September 2020

In her own words –
Flashback: In 2016, Ginsburg said Senate should hold SCOTUS confirmation hearing during election year
Ginsburg remarked in 2016 that ‘nothing in the Constitution’ precludes 11th hour nomination.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/flashback-in-2016-ginsburg-senate-election-year-vacancy
😉

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Bill Tozer

20 September 2020

WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO
“In the coming weeks, as the struggle to confirm a Supreme Court nominee fires up, we will be inundated with facts about past confirmation timetables and other “precedents.” Advocates will try to elevate past practices to matters of principle, and maybe even to matters of morality.
I think all of these arguments should be ignored. The only rule that applies, and it’s a reasonable one, is that Supreme Court nominees get confirmed when the president’s party has secured enough support from the electorate to muster the 50 Senate votes needed to confirm.
Voters didn’t give Democrats enough Senate votes to confirm Merrick Garland (or to get him the waste of time a hearing would have amounted to). That’s all there was to that story.”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/09/what-it-all-comes-down-to.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9434BoGkNQ
Spoon pounding, food throwing, high chair temper tantrum time. What are they going to do? Hold their breathes until they are blue (mob) in the face? Grab their dolls and run away from home? Lots of anger issues amidst our Enlightened Betters…our moral superiors, aka, the white liberal Supremacists.

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Don Bessee

20 September 2020

At least there is that –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pelosi-says-she-will-not-leverage-government-shutdown-to-avoid-senate-vote-on-supreme-court-seat/ar-BB19edPE?ocid=msedgdhp
😉

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Bill Tozer

20 September 2020

GregGutfeld
@greggutfeld
seeing the unstable, flabby few threatening violence if the WH fills a vacancy says to me, that it’s time to call them on it. I’m honestly tired of being extorted by douchebags who couldn’t punch their way out of saran wrap.ttps://mobile.twitter.com/greggutfeld/status/1307481373939302400

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Bill Tozer

20 September 2020

Lol. He just wants people to like him.
‘Jeff Flake: Republicans Should Not Fill SCOTUS Seat Until Election’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeff-flake-republicans-should-not-fill-scotus-seat-until-election

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Barry Pruett

21 September 2020

CNN is back on the COVID rants. As the protagonist of Trump, they must think the Supreme Court is a losing issue for them.

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Bill Tozer

21 September 2020

@LindseyGrahamSC
US Senate candidate, SC
“Being lectured by Democrats about how to handle judicial nominations is like an arsonist advising the Fire Department”

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paul emery

21 September 2020

How low can Trump go??? Here’s a new threshold of scum from our Liar in Chief’
“Just days before Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death last Friday, she dictated a note to her granddaughter saying her “most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.” Several Republicans, eager to fill her now-vacant seat, dismissed Ginsburg’s request the same night as her death, and on Monday President Donald Trump was trying to allege that the justice never made the request at all.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-spreads-disinformation-about-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-dying-wish_n_5f68c341c5b6480e8972af1f
During a Fox News interview Monday morning, Trump baselessly claimed Ginsburg’s request, first reported by NPR, was actually written by Democratic politicians. In reality, Ginsburg herself relayed the statement to her granddaughter, Clara Spera, NPR reported.
“I don’t know that she said that. Or was that written out by Adam Schiff, and Schumer, and Pelosi?” Trump asked. “That came out of the wind. It sounds so beautiful but that sounds like a Schumer deal,” he added. There is no evidence to support Trump’s accusation that California Rep. Adam Schiff, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were involved in ghostwriting a posthumous plea from a deceased Supreme Court justice.

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