Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passes away at 87

[Dusty Bake Activate]

 

[DirtyD]

Win enough votes. Control the electorate. Push your agenda through.

Most of the nuclear talk operates under the assumption that democrats can't approach the same threshold at Republicans have.

If that's the case, maybe the country isn't where you want it to be or you aren't selling your vision well enough.

At the end of the day liberals voters stayed home and allowed this to happen.

Elections have consequences.

As I've said before I find it funny that literally everyone, but the professional political actors that helped make this happen and will do nothing about it in the future can be blamed for this situation:

I wish democratic politicians gave as much of a fukk about the supreme court as their online fan clubs do. Unfortunately, their actions show that's not the case.

By failing to call favorable witnesses or solicit affidavits from experts on sexual harassment, Biden was as responsible for Hill’s “character assassination” and Thomas’s place on the Supreme Court as anyone. “He did everything to make it be good for Thomas and to slant it against her,” Georgetown University law professor Susan Deller Ross observed to the Times in 2008.

Joe Biden’s Half-Baked Political Gimmicks

Another shining moment in Biden’s progress in the current presidential term was his conduct in the hearings on Judge Alito’s nomination to the US Supreme Court. From the opening moments of the Judiciary Committee’s sessions in January, 2006, it became clear that Alito faced no serious opposition. On that first ludicrous morning Senator Pat Leahy sank his head into his hands, shaking it in unbelieving despair as Biden blathered out a self-serving and inane monologue lasting a full twenty minutes before he even asked Alito one question. In his allotted half hour Biden managed to pose only five questions, all of them ineptly phrased. He did pose two questions about Alito’s membership of a racist society at Princeton, but had already undercut them in his monologue by calling Alito “a man of integrity”, not once but twice, and further trivialized the interrogation by reaching under the dais to pull out a Princeton cap and put it on.

In all, Biden rambled for 4,000 words, leaving Alito time only to put together less than 1,000. A Delaware newspaper made deadly fun of him for his awful performance, eliciting the revealing confession from Biden that “I made a mistake. I should have gone straight to my question. I was trying to put him at ease.”

"Change," "Hope" ... Why They Must be Talking About Joe Biden! - CounterPunch.org

Come January, President Barack Obama will be consigned to the sidelines as Donald Trump occupies the Oval Office and begins the work of dismantling his legacy. But there is one action that Obama could take on January 3, 2017 that could hold off some of the worst potential abuses of a Trump administration for up to a year. Obama can appoint his nominee Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court on that date, in between the two sessions of Congress.

Even though he'd have been out in a year with how important the court is wouldn't that year have been a large net positive?



Obama Can and Should Put Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court

Kelly, an Iowa native like Grassley, a former public defender and the embodiment of a public servant, had been unanimously approved by the GOP-led Senate for the federal bench in 2013. Just north of 50, she was considerably younger than the 63-year-old Garland. Progressive groups begged Obama to appoint Kelly, whose story touched hearts, but Obama listened to Republican Orrin Hatch instead, who counseled a centrist choice could get seated by the Senate his party controlled and still does.

“Who listens to Orrin Hatch?” a liberal activist exclaims, still angry at Obama for “taking the path of least resistance. He didn’t want to make waves.” Hatch had given his blessing to President Clinton naming Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Obama thought history could repeat itself. “He was fooled by Orrin Hatch, who then turned around and betrayed him,” this activist says. “He made a terrible mistake, the biggest mistake of his presidency.”

Will Obama Ever ’Fess Up to His Merrick Garland Mess?

“We should have shut down the Senate,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said Tuesday. “We made a calculation that we were going to win the 2016 [presidential] election and confirm a nominee. And it didn’t work out.”

“Hindsight’s 20/20,” said Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.). “I think I would have liked us to take an even harder line.”

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But no amount of swag or hagiography can obscure the fact that, while Ginsburg is responsible for a great number of landmark legal decisions, her legacy may be sorely tarnished by one truly terrible one: refusing to retire when President Barack Obama could have named her replacement. That decision came into stark relief this month when Ginsburg fell and broke three ribs—and half of the nation took a collective gasp. Women took to Twitter to offer the justice a rib.

But Carmon and others who’ve helped turn Ginsburg into a pop-culture icon are deluding themselves. Ginsburg is a mere mortal. Falling down is the leading cause of accidental death in people over age 85. The actuarial table is not in her favor. There’s a real possibility Ginsburg will not outlast the Trump administration or live long enough for a Democrat to replace her. The situation today is one many liberal lawyers feared years ago and worked hard to avert. But the feisty justice rebuffed them all, a decision that makes all the hero worship hard for some of us to stomach.

What the cult of Ruth Bader Ginsburg got wrong

As far as voting goes, Republicans are currently putting their voter suppression tactics on front street for all to see, but as everyone should know, this is nothing new and again this same professional political actors failed to protect voting rights when they had the opportunity:

This struck me when, in Obama’s State of the Union address, he announced the creation of “a non-partisan commission” to put an end to hours-long lines of black people attempting to cast ballots and other voting horrors. Most Americans were sick and upset about seeing this ugly throw-back to the days of segregation, the suppression of black voting by “Jim Crow” laws.

That election night – as the victory confetti fell decoratively on him – Obama thanked voters, including “those who waited in line a very long time”. Hey, thanks for noticing, Barack. Then Obama added an aside: “By the way, we have to fix that.”

When a President really, really doesn’t want to do something, he calls for a non-partisan panel, appointing Republicans and Democrats who, together, take a couple of years to write a paper no one reads because we’ve all forgotten about whatever the hell it was the panel was created to agree on.

Besides, we’ve done this “non-partisan panel” flamingo a dozen times before. Did you forget about George “Victory-in-Florida” Bush’s commission headed by Jimmy Carter and Jim Baker?

Bush created a new non-partisan Elections Assistance Commission. On this panel sat the very two white guys Obama appointed to the new commission: Ben Ginsberg, Mitt Romney’s lawyer, and Bob Bauer, Obama’s campaign lawyer. (That’s “non-partisan”? Whatever.)

Let me tell you about how the panel with your two pale-faces did it last time, Mr President. In 2006, they hired an expert, Dr Tova Wang, to find out what’s wrong with America’s elections. She concluded that Jim Crow still runs voting in much of America. Dr Wang titled her report, “Voting Fraud and Voter Intimidation,” detailing and quantifying widespread racist trickery.

The non-partisan panel, with your two current appointees, changed the title of Dr Wang’s report to the vague and pulp fictional, “Election Crimes”.

You’re asking Republicans to clear the booby-trapped voting obstacle course that keeps millions of Hispanics, blacks, students and other minorities from voting. You know, and Dr King’s ghost knows, that you’re asking the GOP to sign their party’s death warrant. And you know they won’t.

Does Obama Really Care About Black Voters?

 

[mitter]

fukk Lindsey Graham

 

[the cac mamba]

if the democrats take the wh and senate, the chuck and nancy era needs to end. immediately

the idea that the democrats "have" to keep nominating this power crazed grandmother every two years until her death is unacceptable. and schumer doesnt have the heart to do what needs to be done. fukk both of them

 

[mastermind]

As I've said before I find it funny that literally everyone, but the professional political actors that helped make this happen and will do nothing about it in the future can be blamed for this situation:



As far as voting goes, Republicans are currently putting their voter suppression tactics on front street for all to see, but as everyone should know, this is nothing new and again this same professional political actors failed to protect voting rights when they had the opportunity:








Does Obama Really Care About Black Voters?

Exactly

 

[jj23]

Just popped in to see how everyone is doing. I see some folks are still in denial, while others are at the stage of anger or depression.

Some are at acceptance.

I think based on the last two pages, the most disappointing thing is, outside of AOC, no one is really floating what the revenge of the left would look like.

Biden really shouldn't be doing it either. This should be a concerted push from the senate and the house so the GOP understands no quarter will be given. Disappointing that the Dems can't even be united on this front.

Either way. If you can afford it get some private healthcare and hope for the best.

 

[DirtyD]

 

[Dat Migo]

Justice Barrett, come on down.

 

[NaijaProdigy Redux]

Game over.

 

[acri1]

They're confirming Trump's justice no matter what.

Maybe when Roe v. Wade gets overturned Dems will be motivated to expand the SC.

 

[The G.O.D II]

Well Mittens have caved. Lets see how BSNBC reacts to "maverick" mitt now

 

[wire28]

Mitt revealing himself. Only so long fake thugs can pretend

 

[hjnm]

someone correct me if im wrong, but i feel like overturning roe v wade isnt gonna make much of a difference

wouldnt it just mean that states CAN make abortion illegal if they want to? so all thats gonna happen is 5 or 6 of these redneck shytholes with like 2 abortion clinics anyway are gonna get rid of them. its not going away in any blue states, and republicans in swing states would be committing political suicide if they proposed it; they dont have the balls

Pretty much, abortion was already legal in 30 states before Roe v. Wade but we'll see how it goes.

 

[Loose]

Double

 

[Loose]

Just start impeachment everyone fukk it , since they want to play dirty dems should too. Just make it so they have to do impeachment hearings the next 3 months