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  • #61
    Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    If POTUD goes off the statutes, he needs to be corrected/stopped. If you disagree on moral grounds, sorry. Tried that for 45 years - doesn't work.
    You're not listening.
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    • #62
      Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

      BTW, the GOP doesn't want to overturn Roe. It's been one of their best fundraising tools for 40 years. They want abortions to keep happening so they can keep fulminating against them so their dupes will keep paying them in coin and votes.

      The day science renders abortions OBE will be a very sad day at the RNC.
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      • #63
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Both Roberts and Scalia were consummate politicians, so I hope Gorsuch has some of those instincts but will use them for good as so far Roberts has and Scalia never did. Gorsuch appears to be principled, which is good as far as it goes (Stanley Fish wrote an excellent book about how limited principle is). I look forward to him disappointing conservatives when they go nuts and not being a rubber stamp like Thomas and Alito.
        Agree with this. A lot of people are getting themselves worked up when it is completely unnecessary.
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        • #64
          Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

          Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
          Agree with this. A lot of people are getting themselves worked up when it is completely unnecessary.
          I don't think anybody is getting worked up about Gorsuch. We're getting worked up about Cinnamon Hitler's combination of idiocy and entitlement, and the GOP's cynicism and cowardice in shirking their duty to bring him to heel.
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          • #65
            Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            As I've said a hundred times, I'm fine with the politics. We lost and you guys get your political choices because elections have consequences. You had to live with us for 8 years, now we have to live with you. Sucks but OK.

            But the process violations and the dictatorial personality, style and actions of Hair Fuhrer are a different story. That's something we should all be opposed to. The rules and the law are there to protect us all. You may laugh now because you have the ax, but do you trust us with it? America is more important than politics. Your side is losing sight of that because of temporary convenience and that is a huge mistake.

            John Wayne is great in Stagecoach and True Grit and Quiet Man and Liberty Valence. In most things he just mails it in like most actors. I'm OK with watching him for fun, but several generations of reactionary dingbats built their personalities around aping his characters because they superficially fit in with the reactionary mindset. That's as dumb as being an Elvis impersonator.
            Be more like David Frum. Don't be like Mitch.
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            • #66
              Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              BTW, the GOP doesn't want to overturn Roe. It's been one of their best fundraising tools for 40 years. They want abortions to keep happening so they can keep fulminating against them so their dupes will keep paying them in coin and votes.

              The day science renders abortions OBE will be a very sad day at the RNC.
              They can replace abortion with Muslims and get the same fundraising. They practically already have.
              **NOTE: The misleading post above was brought to you by Reynold's Wrap and American Steeples, makers of Crosses.

              Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
              Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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              • #67
                Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                They can replace abortion with Muslims and get the same fundraising. They practically already have.
                yup. I think they are going to try to deliver on the abortion promise and roll back rights for gays too. Pence is a true believer in Christian Sharia Law. Now they have the Muslims!! as the bogeyman instead of the baby killers!!.

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                • #68
                  Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                  Originally posted by BassAle View Post
                  yup. I think they are going to try to deliver on the abortion promise and roll back rights for gays. Pence is a true believer in Christian Sharia Law.
                  And they can fund raise till the cows come home on that.
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                  Originally Posted by dropthatpuck-Scooby's a lost cause.
                  Originally Posted by First Time, Long Time-Always knew you were nothing but a troll.

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                  • #69
                    Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    The self-image of the Strong Man Standing Against The Wind is quite narcissistic.
                    Rural cousin of Coastal Ubermensch?
                    That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by ScoobyDoo View Post
                      Gee, I wonder why that could be?
                      If I had to guess, it's because it gets harder to overturn your own precedent than it is someone else's. As a junior justice, you generally only get to write boring opinions that the senior judges pass on. And you have no personal precedent, so you're free to go wherever you wish.

                      But after 5-10 years, it gets tougher to act as a firebrand because then you'd have to overrule yourself.

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
                        It's obviously your right to fear the worst, but I don't think it will happen. Even if it did come to pass you're still not in that bad of shape. I don't think Kagan, Sotomayor, Breyer, Ginaburg, Roberts will let anything very extreme get through. I wouldn't be surprised if Gorsuch is more along the lines of Roberts than Scalia.
                        Roberts sided with Texas last year in that abortion case. You have more faith in him than is warranted.

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                        • #72
                          Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                          Originally posted by unofan View Post
                          If I had to guess, it's because it gets harder to overturn your own precedent than it is someone else's. As a junior justice, you generally only get to write boring opinions that the senior judges pass on. And you have no personal precedent, so you're free to go wherever you wish.

                          But after 5-10 years, it gets tougher to act as a firebrand because then you'd have to overrule yourself.
                          Huh. Interesting. Makes sense.
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                          Originally posted by SanTropez
                          May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                          Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                          I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                          Originally posted by Kepler
                          When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                          He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                          • #73
                            Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                            Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
                            Rural cousin of Coastal Ubermensch?
                            No, it's Coastal Sensitive Man Who Discovers He's Strong In A Crisis Yet Still Doesn't Lose His Spiritual Generosity.

                            Geez, man, try to keep up.
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                            • #74
                              Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                              Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
                              Agree with this. A lot of people are getting themselves worked up when it is completely unnecessary.
                              Remember the backdrop. If this were a constitutional appointment, this would be a dem nomination.
                              Go Gophers!

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                              • #75
                                Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day

                                What would be the impact if we changed "critical" appointments to the following:
                                --require 60 votes
                                --require a committee hearing within 30 days
                                --require full floor vote within 90 days
                                --remove the filibuster

                                Is something like this workable? Any other requirements?

                                Complete pipe dream?
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                                Originally posted by SanTropez
                                May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                                I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                                Originally posted by Kepler
                                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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