Democrats warn GOP: Don't fill a Supreme
Court vacancy in 2020 or we'll retaliate
NBC News,
by
Sahil Kapur
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/3/2020 2:12:14 PM
WASHINGTON — Democrats are warning Republicans not to fill a possible Supreme Court vacancy this year after denying President Barack Obama the chance in 2016, saying it would embolden a push on the left to add seats to the court whenever they regain power. "We knew basically they were lying in 2016, when they said, 'Oh, we can't do this because it's an election year.' We knew they didn't want to do it because it was President Obama," Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in an interview. Kaine, the party's last vice presidential nominee and a lawmaker with a reputation as an
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MMC 8/3/2020 2:18:21 PM (No. 498709)
What? Are you going to burn down major cities? Hold your breath? Stomp your feet?
#beentheredonethat
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/3/2020 2:20:30 PM (No. 498712)
What are democrats going to do if they win the senate? Pack the court anyway?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/3/2020 2:22:07 PM (No. 498714)
If the shoe were on the other foot, the Dems would not hesitate to put another justice on the Supreme Court. Retaliate, hey? Nice. Such top-shelf folks, these Dems.
Plugs Biden and San Fran Nan need to have their diapers changed.
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So the last four years haven't been retaliation enough forTrump to win the election?? My advice is to the the commie democrats to stuff it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 8/3/2020 2:26:31 PM (No. 498726)
Hey, Dimwits! You ALREADY ARE retaliating, so we'll just do whatever we want, and you can suck it up.
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That's not a warning, that's a threat! Go for it! RBG hid her return of cancer [I've prayed for her, don't like to see anyone have to go through this kind of trial]. If she or Breyer were people of integrity, they'd have retired by now. But, they, too, are politicians to the end.
DC corrupts absolutely. SC, Congress, or the WH, people change. It's a very sad thing. They cease representing the people and, instead, represent parties. PDT seems to be the once in a lifetime anomaly.
MAGA!!! KAG!!! TRUMP 2020 AND BEYOND! I'll take three more vacancies for the win! RBG, Breyer, and Chief In-Justice John Roberts [the great morpher].
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/3/2020 2:34:45 PM (No. 498740)
Be very afraid…. Oogly, boogly….
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/3/2020 2:38:43 PM (No. 498745)
Ummm - - suppose - - suppose we fill it with Merrick "Judgy" Garland?
Yes - - you won't object to Judgy Garland - - will you?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
brother ram 8/3/2020 2:44:12 PM (No. 498754)
Do they know something we don't? Tim Kaine "institutionalist"? - more like Tim Kaine needs to be institutionalized.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Plex 8/3/2020 2:48:23 PM (No. 498759)
The size of the court is set by law. It takes full control of the government to pack the court. Of course if the democrats gain full control again court packing will be the least of our worries.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/3/2020 2:53:36 PM (No. 498766)
Retaliate how? Kill another SCOTUS justice “in their sleep?”
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
TXknitter 8/3/2020 2:57:00 PM (No. 498771)
They should immediately retaliate - How dare you threaten us. Zip it. The stupidity of putting up with Democrat leaders and their continual vile threats! Mitch and the Republican Senators need to firmly grow a pair and stoutly respond fora change.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 8/3/2020 2:58:56 PM (No. 498773)
The Dems are going to expand the court regardless Its the only way to impose policies since they can't win elections.
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Are they expecting some SC Justice will die this year, in the next 2 months?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
sw penn 8/3/2020 3:01:28 PM (No. 498778)
Big Boy Politics:
If you could have done, you would have done it.
Corollary:
If you can do it, you will do it.
GOP should be looking to fill Supreme Court vacancies
up to and including Election Day.
Softball is an amateur sport.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ronniethek 8/3/2020 3:04:49 PM (No. 498781)
Stop with your threats pipsqueak. Pipe down.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
kdog 8/3/2020 3:05:02 PM (No. 498783)
I would not be surprised if McConnell "plays fair" and does not confirm a Supreme Court nominee until after the election. Just the type of bs that makes me really suspect of the RNC.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 8/3/2020 3:07:29 PM (No. 498787)
Things that make you go HMMMM....Dems warning not to fill a SCOTUS vacancy in 2020? Do they know something we don't (like RBG dying of cancer or Breyer retiring...)? But even if someone, uh, leaves, the Court, the election is only a few weeks away and Trump will get to pick WHOMEVER HE WANTS after he wins re-election.
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I don't think that he should either. Don't get buffalloed by the fake, manipulated polls. Biden has never had the ghost of a chance to beat Trump, even with the epidemic. McConnell should gracefully say that a Supreme Court seat should be awarded to the winner of the election. That way, once Trump wins re-election, he can nominate who he wants and the Democrats can say nothing about it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
curious1 8/3/2020 3:28:09 PM (No. 498807)
#20, the agreed-upon so-called 'rule' was a president at the end of his second (and last) term of office should allow the next administration to fill the seat. It was of benefit to the leftards when it first came up, but when their ox got gored in 2016 they didn't like it as much as they had. So they can shut up and smile. Too bad, so sad. And cry me a river. It's Karma.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/3/2020 3:30:23 PM (No. 498810)
Ruthie's lab report must have come back bad.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
MorningStar 8/3/2020 3:31:22 PM (No. 498811)
The Leftist-Progressive Socialists have been RETALIATING ever since their first glance of The Donald and Melania Trump impressively descending the golden escalator @Trump Tower. Following that scene of impending triumph, the Dems descended into a hellish, feverish pitch of malevolence to derail the Trump Campaign!! It succeeded not; but this time with all the underhanded plotting via Voter Ballot Mail Fraud, we could be in for an upsetting election result! PRAY!!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Rob_NC 8/3/2020 3:37:22 PM (No. 498814)
Huh.. Donald the dems really came up with a great idea...expand th SC...
add 3,6,9 a year...aren't you tired of...5 people being the arbitrators of our Republic
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Nobody talking about CJ John Roberts, whose name showed up on the Epstein flight logs. He also had a fall on Fathers Day and is said to possibly have epilepsy.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
red1066 8/3/2020 4:00:03 PM (No. 498832)
Like they wouldn't pack the courts all over the country anyway, even if Trump didn't get another Supreme Court pick.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
bobn.t 8/3/2020 4:04:06 PM (No. 498839)
The more the better.
The sooner the better.
Trump 2020
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
bobn.t 8/3/2020 4:05:13 PM (No. 498842)
#3 - their game plan is to impeach everyone.
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#16, they should be looking to fill any void until they aren't in office any longer, including after the Nov election.
Let the Democrats complain, it will help in the next election.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
ScooterTrash 8/3/2020 4:10:02 PM (No. 498849)
I wonder what Tim Kaine knows that we don't know. Just how sick is Ruth Bader Ginsberg really?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
hershey 8/3/2020 4:19:08 PM (No. 498861)
Just like woke liberal pantywaist weenies to try and blackmail Trump to not replace RBG when she finally gives up the ghost...I hope he tells them to shove it...they are going to 'retaliate'??? What, foment riots, fund BLM, fund Anti-fa, lockdown their democrap controlled cities and states? Been there, done that...go suck an egg...
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
andyboy 8/3/2020 4:24:08 PM (No. 498868)
Retaliate? The Dems already retaliate every chance they get. No different from Middle East radical Muslims who are forever vowing revenge for whatever. Beat the Dems down whenever possible and don't look back.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/3/2020 4:39:35 PM (No. 498878)
Go for it Commies, your days are numbered, in single digits!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Luandir 8/3/2020 4:49:15 PM (No. 498888)
#25, please substantiate your claim about Chief Justice Roberts.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
varkdriver 8/3/2020 4:51:27 PM (No. 498891)
#30, exactly my thoughts. Is RBG 'suddenly' unable to fog a mirror? And what are the Dems gonna do to 'retaliate'? Go on CNN, PMSNBC, NBC/CBS/ABC and 'start' trashing the President?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/3/2020 5:58:16 PM (No. 498938)
#34, it is well established that chief Judas John Roberts has a seizure disorder, having had two known public seizures. the seizure disorder is also known as epilepsy.
since you didn't know that, #34, did you know that we had a chief justice who was a drug addict? His name was Rehnquist. (He became addicted to sleeping pills after undergoing back surgery, when he was an associate justice. He went through drug rehab prior to becoming chief justice.)
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/3/2020 5:58:50 PM (No. 498940)
We still have some Obama-induced damage to counter, like the Wide Latina and the New York Lesbian fella, both of whom were nominated for their superior legal minds.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Jeff Caruso 8/3/2020 6:44:27 PM (No. 498982)
It's a no brainer to ignore threats by the Democrats.
They will do anything they want if they regain the Senate. We need to press on with protecting the judicial system and the Republic.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Venturer 8/3/2020 7:05:44 PM (No. 499003)
Take this threat and SHOVE it.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
or gate 8/3/2020 7:22:56 PM (No. 499017)
Now the criminals are out in the open.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 8/3/2020 7:26:16 PM (No. 499020)
Pound sand, Democrats. Trump has to make up ground after Roberts & Gorsuch turned out to be stealth lefties.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/3/2020 8:51:29 PM (No. 499091)
Retaliate? .....like looting those stores at the mall?
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
swarfer 8/3/2020 9:14:34 PM (No. 499103)
You gotta be kidding. If a vacancy opened up tomorrow, Trump would have a nomination to the a Senate by the end of the day and Mitch would have a vote within 30 days. In politics it’s all about winning and Trump is the master. The Democrat controlled House has no say, period.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
dwa 8/3/2020 10:58:58 PM (No. 499149)
Gee, don'tcha know, only Democrats are allowed to bust tradition first and do what hasn't been done before. Characterless and corrupt Democrats wouldn't hesitate do do whatever they wanted if they could increase their power. Remember it was that little weasel Harry Reid who got rid of the filibuster for some of the Senate votes so he could get what he wanted. Scum is too good a word to describe most Democrats.
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Expecting a vacancy real soon, are we? Dems are owed nothing but contempt after the Kavanaugh confirmation.