But now, after doing it, the Republicans are like, PSYCHE! We don't give a shit about the people's vote. Fuck the people.

That is such a fucking joke.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959109)

2. Crooked H knew that the election was decided based on the electoral college. She and Trump decided their campaign strategies based on that, i.e. they were focused on winning the electoral college and therefore neglected strategies that could have improved their popular-vote results. If the election had been based on the popular vote, they would have campaigned differently, and Trump might have won the (official) popular vote in that case. You can't just assume that Crooked would still have won the popular vote under a completely different election scenario. You'd have to go back in time and re-do the whole election under the alternative rules.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959327)

LoL at this 105 IQ rube whining that mean old Mitch isn’t playing fair!

🤣🤣🤣

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959196)

2020 dems: HOW DARE YOU fill the seat in an election year!?!?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959394)

Of course that is DEMS reaction in 2020, because the Republicans in 2016 told the world that you cannot nominate a justice in an election year because the American people need to be heard [A rule they completely made up]. And they then blocked the nominee 8 months out. Now, in 2020, with 5 weeks before the election they're like, just kidding. We can do it.

Only a legitimate retard doesn't see that hypocrisy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959414)

🤣🤣🤣

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959443)

The progressive scholars have written a letter about whether POTUS should nominate someone for a vacant SCOTUS seat!

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https://web.archive.org/web/20161002115204/http://www.acslaw.org/sites/default/files/Con%20Law%20Scholars%20on%20Scotus%20Vacancy.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959220)

Because I'd like to know how you think that matters in regard to these Republican Senators' position regarding this issue.

As an initial matter, your response to the OP indicates a 145 LSAT score.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959286)

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We write as constitutional law scholars to urge President Obama and the United States Senate to fulfill their constitutional duties with regard to the vacancy that exists on the Supreme Court because of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. We do not write in support of or in opposition to any specific candidate. Rather, our position is simply that the President has the duty to ominate a candidate to fill the current Supreme Court vacancy and the Senate has the duty to “advise and consent,” which means to hold hearings and to vote on the nominee.

We urge the President to nominate as soon as reasonably possible an individual to fill the vacancy existing on the Court and the Senate to hold hearings and vote on the nominee.

Signed,

Dmitry Bam; University of Maine School of Law

Erwin Chemerinsky; Founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law; and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law University; University of California, Irvine School of Law

Gene Nichol; Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor; University of North Carolina School of Law

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959299)

Not prestigious!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959383)

But there were lots of preftigious progreffive schoalars.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959663)

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Much depends on Ginsburg

By ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

MARCH 15, 20141:44 PM

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should retire from the Supreme Court after the completion of the current term in June. She turned 81 on Saturday and by all accounts she is healthy and physically and mentally able to continue. But only by resigning this summer can she ensure that a Democratic president will be able to choose a successor who shares her views and values.

A great deal turns on who picks Ginsburg’s successor. There are, for example, four likely votes to overturn Roe vs. Wade on the current court: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel A. Alito Jr. If a Republican president selects Ginsburg’s replacement, that justice easily could be the fifth vote needed to allow the government to prohibit all abortions. On many cases — including ones involving environmental law, healthcare, gay marriage, the death penalty and the rights of those in Guantanamo — the four liberal justices have joined with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy for a progressive result.

But if a conservative had been occupying Ginsburg’s seat when the court heard those cases, the rulings might well have been very different, and if a conservative takes her seat when she leaves, they might not survive.

There likely will be many calls, publicly and privately, for Justice Ginsburg to resign before President Obama leaves the White House to prevent the risk of a Republican being able to appoint her successor. But simply leaving before the next election isn’t enough. If Ginsburg waits until 2016 to announce her retirement, there is a real chance that Republicans would delay the confirmation process to block an outgoing president from being able to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court. In fact, the process for confirming nominees for judicial vacancies usually largely shuts down the summer before a presidential election.

Moreover, there is a distinct possibility that Democrats will not keep the Senate in the November 2014 elections. The current Senate has 53 Democrats, two independents who vote with the Democrats and 45 Republicans. But in the November 2014 elections, Republicans have a far greater likelihood of gaining seats in the Senate than the Democrats. One recent study identified nine seats held by Democrats that could be won by Republicans, but only two seats occupied by Republicans that might be taken by Democrats.

So long as the Democrats control the Senate, President Obama can have virtually anyone he wants confirmed for the Supreme Court. There has been only one filibuster against a Supreme Court nominee, and that was to block Justice Abe Fortas’ elevation to chief justice, not to block his initial appointment. There were 48 votes against Thomas and 42 against Alito, but Democrats filibustered neither. Besides, if Democrats have control of the Senate, they could change the rules to eliminate the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, just as they did for lower federal court judges and presidential appointments to executive positions.

In the end, the only way to ensure that President Obama can pick someone who will carry on in Justice Ginsburg’s tradition is for the vacancy to occur this summer. Indeed, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who will turn 76 this summer, should also carefully consider the possibility of stepping down this year.

Some might question whether a justice should be so calculating in choosing when to retire. But not doing so ignores the reality that ideology matters enormously in Supreme Court decision-making. This is nothing new; ideology always has mattered, and which president fills vacancies on the court can have an impact for decades. If, for example, Al Gore or John Kerry rather than President George W. Bush had replaced William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor in 2005, a liberal majority would likely have endured on the court for the next few decades. Conversely, if John McCain had replaced David Souter and John Paul Stevens, there would be a solid conservative majority and Roe vs. Wade surely would have been overruled already.

I do not minimize how hard it will be for Justice Ginsburg to step down from a job that she loves and has done so well since 1993. But the best way for her to advance all the things she has spent her life working for is to ensure that a Democratic president picks her successor. The way to facilitate that is for her to resign this summer.

Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the UC Irvine School of Law.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40971581)

BUT THEY DID PULL THIS SHIT. So, they don't get to then say, we were kidding 4 years ago. The American people can fuck off this time. It's a joke that isn't fooling anybody other than a retarded RESULTS ORIENTED SHORT-TERM SMALL-DICKED GOP stalwart.

And now, it's going to be a total shit show. A Senate majority will NEVER pass a nomination from the other party ever again.

And the DEMs are going to win the Senate and wreck the fucking country now by packing the court and bringing PR & DC in as states.

All of this shit is going to happen because these retarded Republican Senators are fucking hypocrites to the core.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959354)

There is NO RULE against doing it in an election year, until MITCH DECLARED a new rule. And now, after making up the rule in 2016 and the GOP going on record about it, now in 2020 they're like, FUCK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

That is hypocrisy. The Dems didn't do anything other than take it up the ass in 2016 like a bunch of bitches.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959380)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959402)

Moreover, that is a meaningless distinction.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959425)

That change in phrasing would have completely obliterated the "hypocrisy" charge, yet the result would be the same: Senate does not exercise the option to vote on Obama's nominee in 2016, but does exercise the option to vote on Trump's nominee in 2020. So this whole thing could have been avoided with a simple change in phrasing? And that's what's got libs so worked up?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959407)

His 2 positions in 2016 and 2020 are complete opposites. And frankly, are such a joke, that any serious Republican should have grabbed him in advance and said, don't fucking do this.

It will fuck the country when the Dems win the Senate.

Which they are going to do.

So, fucking dumb. This entire thing will be a disaster for the GOP. Will likely kill their party.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959447)

Like the other guy said, would you feel better if Garland had been voted down by the Senate? What difference does it make if the Republican Senate majority had voted Garland down or hadn't voted on him at all? Libs didn't have the votes to get Garland confirmed, so why bother with the charade of confirmation hearings?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959466)

mitch set himself up to be a hypocrite here. he knew damn well the Rs would gleefully push a nominee in an election year if they had the ability to do so. they should've voted garland down or said there's no point in voting because he didn't have the votes. instead, mitch declares this broad, baseless rule that no one gets appointed in an election year. it was stupid when biden thought it up and it was even stupider when mitch enacted it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959489)

Let me introduce you to the two senators each from the following newly formed states:

Miami

Tampa

Orlando

Atlanta

Birmingham

Memphis

Nashville

Little Rock

Austin

Dallas

San Antonio

El Paso

Rio Grande Valley

St. Louis

Kansas City

Milwaukee

Madison

Cleveland

Columbus

Cincinnati

Indianapolis

Charlotte

Research Triangle

Pittsburg

Philadelphia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959417)

The budget is paid for by the tax revenue of blue states.

Good luck finding loyal soliders as soon as that paycheck, housing allowance, and TriCare DRIES THE FUCK UP!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959496)

Stop, my penis can only get so erect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959430)

libs orchestrated a gigantic smear campaign against kavanaugh, who was universally recognized as a boy scout, with flimsy claims from high school and tarnished his rep forever. let's see an example of the GOP doing something like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959676)

350 legal schoalars have written a letter to the Senate: the undersigned professors of law urge you to fulfill your constitutional duty to give President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a prompt and fair hearing and a timely vote."

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https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Law-professor-SCOTUS-vacancy-letter-March2016.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959364)

lol at that rogues' gallery of TTTs next to the names

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959432)

https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/698675522956607488

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4629655&forum_id=2#40959499)