Ruth Bader Ginsberg has pancreatic cancer

[SectionC3]

2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

So, I am curious... is there anything to prevent them from passing rules that put back the judicial filibuster with some sort of addendum that it takes 60 to get rid of it in the future, do the same with any other filibusters, and the same for not expanding the courts?   And, could it be done in December IF the Republicans lose the Senate? 

 

Sure the Rs could do that.  And then if the Ds get the Sense, in the next Congress they will promptly repeal that rule. 

2 hours ago, Crayola64 said:

I say republicans don’t confirm during election.

 

then if trump wins, you confirm WITHOUT giving the dems the ammo they (may) need to pack the court.  
 

if trump loses, you confirm.  You will get the wrath of dems and give them the ammo to pack the court, but that would happen if you confirmed before the election.

 

I like my idea!

I don’t believe there is any ability for a rule/law to prevent the ability of congress to amend a rule/law?  I could be really wrong on that though 

 

Talked to my dude in DC today.  Nomination this weekend; Senate vote post-election.  

[TakeYouToTasker]

2 hours ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

So, I am curious... is there anything to prevent them from passing rules that put back the judicial filibuster with some sort of addendum that it takes 60 to get rid of it in the future, do the same with any other filibusters, and the same for not expanding the courts?   And, could it be done in December IF the Republicans lose the Senate? 

What Republicans should do, is amend the Constitution to make the popular vote compact illegal, solidify the SCOTUS as a 9, create national

voter ID mandate, make mail in ballots illegal, and mandate the death penalty for election fraud.

[Hedge]

 

 

 

[Alaska Darin]

39 minutes ago, Hedge said:

 

 

 

Awful lotta whiteys, eh lefties?

[B-Man]

 

 

Because the Democrats just had to ruin it.

 

 

Ted Cruz Blocks Senate Resolution Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg

By Karen Townsend

 

The Senate was ready to pass a ceremonial resolution to honor Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg but Senator Ted Cruz blocked the resolution. The wording added by Senate Democrats is unacceptable to Senator Cruz. He accuses them of politicizing the resolution.

 

He’s not wrong. The Senate Democrats put the alleged last wish of Ginsburg, as told by her granddaughter, into the resolution. She allegedly told her granddaughter that she wanted the next president to choose her successor. The implication from that remark is clear – she expected Joe Biden to win the presidential election and she wanted Biden to put another liberal Democrat on the court, not a conservative as President Trump will do. Cruz rightly spoke up against Democrats including the words “purportedly based on a comment Justice Ginsburg made to family members shortly before she passed.”

 

The resolution is supposed to be a bipartisan gesture.

 

 

“This endeavor started with a resolution that the majority put forward that was intended to be a bipartisan resolution commemorating the life and service of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Cruz said as he objected to an attempt by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to pass the resolution. “Unfortunately the Democratic leader has put forth an amendment to turn that bipartisan resolution into a partisan resolution.”

During his days as Solicitor General in Texas, Cruz argued cases nine times before the Supreme Court, including Justice Ginsburg. So, he tried to add her quote about stacking the Supreme Court. She was opposed to that idea which the Democrats now promise to attempt if President Trump moves forward with his choice of a Supreme Court nominee to replace Ginsburg. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer balked and turned surly against Cruz.

Schumer got the last word: “I believe Justice Ginsburg would easily see through the legal sophistry of the argument of the junior senator from Texas,” Schumer said. “To turn Justice Ginsburg’s dying words against her is so, so beneath the dignity of this body.”

Note that Schumer is gaslighting Cruz there. Cruz was acting in response to Schumer and the Democrats using Ginsburg’s alleged dying words against President Trump and Senate Republicans. This should not have come as a surprise to Schumer. Cruz is no shrinking violet and is known for speaking up against Democrat overreaches. This was one of those.

 

More at the link: https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/09/24/ted-cruz-blocks-senate-resolution-honoring-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

 

 

 

 

[Buffalo_Gal]

They'd have slammed him for not showing. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't, so he may as well do as he thinks best.
 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

5 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

They'd have slammed him for not showing. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't, so he may as well do as he thinks best.
 

 

 

 And they have the balls to call the other side a cult  

[Taro T]

12 minutes ago, Buffalo_Gal said:

They'd have slammed him for not showing. Damned if he does, damned if he doesn't, so he may as well do as he thinks best.
 

 

 

WTF let all the mewling cats out of their cages?

[Deranged Rhino]

1 minute ago, Taro T said:

 

WTF let all the mewling cats out of their cages?

 

Demonic. 

[SoCal Deek]

I waited to see how the Left would react, but we didn't have to wait very long.

Screw them all!

Appoint and confirm a Justice. 

[Wacka]

How  disrespectful of the left.  Trump went there to give a very respectful tribute to her and the bunch of tards on the left  had to do that. 

 Back in 2000 I marched FOR Bush  in SF (when the Bush-Gore thing was being decided). We marched and obeyed every order the police gave.  We were in the median of the Embarcadero in front of the SF Port Building at the foot of Market Street.  There were a few  lefties across the street yelling at us. One of us noticed a funeral coming down the Embarcadero. They yelled  funeral and all of us put down our signs and bowed our heads until it passed. The lefty idiots kept right on yelling.

Edited September 24, 2020 by Wacka