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Someone explain Obama-Reid's nuclear long-game.

-The DC Circuit, while important, has a very low caseload, a...
Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  11/21/13
Slide and let do.
diverse rebellious range
  11/21/13
I have to wonder if the GOP won't have a majority of senator...
Sienna lascivious candlestick maker
  11/21/13
We'll find out in about 15 minutes. They voted to end clotur...
Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  11/21/13
Dems think they will have both senate and WH at last through...
green wild blood rage step-uncle's house
  11/21/13
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At-the-ready Senate Gunner
  11/21/13
lol
olive set famous landscape painting
  11/21/13
lol is this a fucking joke? Hillary is literally UNTOUCHED f...
floppy ceo cuck
  11/21/13
not to mention the electoral math simply doesn't favor the r...
olive set famous landscape painting
  11/21/13
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irate beta messiness circlehead
  08/14/18
Come back harry
Claret shrine
  08/14/18
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Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  04/17/19
Lol
Mildly Autistic Comical Nibblets
  04/17/19
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s.e.g.a.
  04/15/26
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  11/21/13
I believe this is called the "QUICK DO SOMETHING...ANYT...
unholy irradiated institution
  11/21/13
(Karl Rove)
floppy ceo cuck
  11/21/13
But, but, Benghazi!!!
titillating geriatric philosopher-king
  11/21/13
death to israel
180 regret chapel
  11/21/13
supposedly: they expect the Republicans to eliminate the fil...
Hairless boltzmann
  11/21/13
the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral c...
Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage
  11/21/13
dems do not have a structural advantage in the senate
Hairless boltzmann
  11/21/13
I know, but my point is that they have a structural advantag...
Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage
  11/21/13
Elaborate, shitlib
floppy ceo cuck
  11/21/13
Obama has done all sorts of things using the EPA and the Dep...
Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage
  11/21/13
"the democrats have a structural advantage in the elect...
Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  11/21/13
VA going blue seems to make GOP done here.
vivacious carnelian fortuitous meteor
  11/21/13
demography is destiny
Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage
  11/21/13
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Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  11/09/17
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Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  08/14/18
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  04/17/19
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Mildly Autistic Comical Nibblets
  04/17/19
(chuck grassley aide)
swollen corner personal credit line
  11/21/13
How you been, friend.
Pungent Azure Abode Macaca
  11/21/13
how mad are you that john roberts thinks dc circuit requires...
swollen corner personal credit line
  11/21/13
Stupid to say DC Circuit requires 11--when it had 12, they c...
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  11/21/13
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Mildly Autistic Comical Nibblets
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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:50 AM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca

-The DC Circuit, while important, has a very low caseload, and these three judges are not going to have a very significant impact, especially with a lot of senior Reagan-era nominees still staffing cases.

-Maybe his goal is to staff the bench with 50- to 52-year-old judges who'll be shortlisted for the next Democratic administration for SCOTUS. But that's a very very long game and assumes that no one else in the wings is any good for a short list.

-There's only a couple of years left in his term for him to even get nominees through, and he's nominated at a lower rate.

So while I get that Obama and Reid have advantages to going nuclear, doesn't this, in the long run, likely fail a Rawlsian test in terms of long-term advantage?

Anyone liberals want to defend on the basis of something I'm missing. tyia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481933)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:51 AM
Author: diverse rebellious range

Slide and let do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481959)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:55 AM
Author: Sienna lascivious candlestick maker

I have to wonder if the GOP won't have a majority of senators pretty soon, in which case Reid will be glad to have been bluffing. He's a shrewd, craft parliamentarian, so I assume it's a bluff.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481974)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca

We'll find out in about 15 minutes. They voted to end cloture on a nominee (failed), they vote to adjourn (failed), they're voting on whether to reconsider the cloture vote at the moment. Endgame now, unless a last-second negotiation comes through.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481985)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:57 AM
Author: green wild blood rage step-uncle's house

Dems think they will have both senate and WH at last through 2020

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481986)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:01 PM
Author: At-the-ready Senate Gunner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482004)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:29 PM
Author: olive set famous landscape painting

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482162)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: floppy ceo cuck

lol is this a fucking joke? Hillary is literally UNTOUCHED from this rollout 3 years before the election

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482166)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:32 PM
Author: olive set famous landscape painting

not to mention the electoral math simply doesn't favor the republicans anymore no matter how you arrange the swing states. Even if they could take FL, OH and VA back they'd still lose

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482182)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: irate beta messiness circlehead



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#36618339)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:41 PM
Author: Claret shrine

Come back harry

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#36618343)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:16 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102393)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:17 PM
Author: Mildly Autistic Comical Nibblets

Lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102401)



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Date: April 15th, 2026 12:14 PM
Author: s.e.g.a.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#49819243)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:02 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca

(Ruth Bader Ginsburg)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482007)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 11:58 AM
Author: unholy irradiated institution

I believe this is called the "QUICK DO SOMETHING...ANYTHING...TO CHANGE THE CURRENT MEDIA NARRATIVE" tactic.

Or perhaps that tactic's cousein, the "WE'RE GETTING DESTROYED IN THE MEDIA ALREADY, MIGHT AS WELL CRAM IN AS MUCH BAD SHIT AT ONCE AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THEY ONLY HAVE SO MANY MINUTES OF AIRTIME TO BLAST US" gambit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24481995)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: floppy ceo cuck

(Karl Rove)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482172)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: titillating geriatric philosopher-king

But, but, Benghazi!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482602)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:00 PM
Author: 180 regret chapel

death to israel

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482001)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:05 PM
Author: Hairless boltzmann

supposedly: they expect the Republicans to eliminate the filibuster when they win a narrow majority (possibly as soon as 2014), so just do it now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482027)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:06 PM
Author: Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage

the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral college and will probably hold the white house for the foreseeable future, even though gerrymandering and rural districts will keep the gop in control of the house. if a democratic president has a friendly DC circuit he can simply do whatever he wants and get them to rubber stamp it.

obama is already going this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482034)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:27 PM
Author: Hairless boltzmann

dems do not have a structural advantage in the senate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482156)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:30 PM
Author: Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage

I know, but my point is that they have a structural advantage in the electoral college. They want to get these DC circuit nominees confirmed so the president act unilaterally.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482167)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:31 PM
Author: floppy ceo cuck

Elaborate, shitlib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482181)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 12:33 PM
Author: Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage

Obama has done all sorts of things using the EPA and the Department of Justice. He's done everything from imposing new coal regulations to unilaterally stopping the deportation of "Dreamers." He's become an imperial president.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482184)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:41 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca

"the democrats have a structural advantage in the electoral college"

lol@ this post-November 2012 meme.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482539)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:47 PM
Author: vivacious carnelian fortuitous meteor

VA going blue seems to make GOP done here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482574)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:51 PM
Author: Thriller Sickened Old Irish Cottage

demography is destiny

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482608)



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Date: November 9th, 2017 8:58 AM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#34641763)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 10:39 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#36618330)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:17 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102394)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: Mildly Autistic Comical Nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102403)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:55 PM
Author: swollen corner personal credit line

(chuck grassley aide)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482633)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:56 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca

How you been, friend.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482644)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 1:59 PM
Author: swollen corner personal credit line

how mad are you that john roberts thinks dc circuit requires 11 judges and that "lowest caseload" is a crock of horseshit as a metric

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482666)



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Date: November 21st, 2013 2:24 PM
Author: Pungent Azure Abode Macaca

Stupid to say DC Circuit requires 11--when it had 12, they cut a vacant seat and moved it over to the Ninth Circuit in 2007 because the DC Circuit caseload is so low. They should cut it to 9. But the GOP is stupid for saying "well it's so low so we should just leave it vacant." No, the solution is to statutorily amend the number of seats on the DC Circuit, not to refuse to fill vacancies.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#24482851)



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Date: April 17th, 2019 4:18 PM
Author: Mildly Autistic Comical Nibblets



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2419495&forum_id=2)#38102404)