satire alert Constitution To Be Replaced By List Of Ginsburg's Last Wishes WASHINGTON, D.C.—At a somber ceremony this morning, leading government officials announced that the US Constitution, the oldest surviving national constitution and the founding document of the world’s leading democracy, will be entirely replaced by the last wishes of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “She was a super lady and everybody loved her,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I think the least we can do to honor her memory is get rid of that musty old Constitution, which I’ll remind you nobody likes anyway, and replace it with the last wishes of Justice Ginsburg. https://babylonbee.com/news/constitution-to-be-replaced-by-list-of-ginsburgs-last-wishes
It's a very exciting time in American history to be this close to getting a 3rd conservative on The Court with a possibility of a 4th in the near future due to Breyer retirement. This can only be good for The US with Trump shaping the direction of the country for at least a generation.
The other thing that gets overlooked all to often is that Trump and Mitch have taken care of a lotttt of bidness in the lower courts - which have allowed far too many lefty cases to advance -and then they rule that a decision in their district shall be binding upon the whole country until or unless it is overturned by a higher court. There is a lot of tidying up in that area that still needs to be done but a lot has also been done. Not sure how that one-jurisdiction-covers-the-whole-country scam gets cleaned up - whether that can be changed by the higher court itself or is a legislative thing.
Well, that is an interesting story. Reid's eliminiation did not but I believe Mitch was savvy enough to see the battle for Gorsuch shaping up so, ironically, it was Mitch who had it added/eliminated for the judicial appointments, including lower courts, I believe. I don't think Harry even eliminated for the supreme court. It was Mitch that did that because he saw their game coming where they were trying to pick and choose where the fillibuster elimination would help and hurt them. I am a little shaky on that, but I think that is correct.
https://time.com/5324365/harry-reid-filibuster-reform-supreme-court/ In 2013, Reid invoked the “nuclear option,” a historic move that changed a long-standing Senate rule, dropping the number of votes needed to overcome a filibuster from 60 to a simple majority for executive appointments and most judicial nominations — a decision he justified because of trouble getting through court confirmations in the latter half of the Obama Administration. At the time, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and many other Republicans warned Reid that he would regret implementing the nuclear option.
Yeh, I don't remember the exact sequence of events but it was a one-two punch where Reid did the bigger picture, then Mitch tidied it up for the Supreme Court. "In 2013, Reid eliminated the use of the filibuster for most federal judicial nominees — except for the Supreme Court. McConnell then nuked the filibuster for Supreme Court and Cabinet appointments once Republicans regained control of the chamber." https://www.axios.com/mitch-mcconne...eid-418a1d21-c21a-4b3a-adf1-0d5cfc11ddc1.html
So he was drunk with power and thought Idiot Dems would always be in control and couldn't see that an unexpected Republican president could then get massive court appointments approved?
I think all politicians should have shut the fuck up after she died. In her life she fought for women's rights when women were not thought highly of as law students, lawyers or professors. If you have a wife, girlfriend or daughter then she fought for her right to be treated as an equal. Most of you don't have the guts to fight for the things she fought for. You don't lik her views on abortion? Well tough shit. She served this country and deserves respect and the Dems and Trump should have kept their mouth shut for 3 fucking days before they went all stupid...but no...could not even wait an hour.