Senate confirms Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, cements 6-3 conservative majority

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Am I the only one who can’t tell what’s satire and what’s “real” these days? The 'Bee has some pretty good ones!
 
“6-3 conservative majority”
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Who’s the 6th?
Thomas and Alito: Yes. Extremely high levels of judicial integrity.
Barrett: yes, we think
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh: yes, I guess they lean conservative, more often than not
That’s 5.

Who’s the 6th?
 
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Yes, that’s what I suspected. But I’ll respectfully disagree.
Yes, Roberts clearly has more judicial integrity than Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor (and Ginsburg), but that’s not saying much.
 
Theo520 said:
“Judge Barrett seems very biased toward the Constitution,” said Senator Mazie Hirono. “She’s not only read it but seems to have some sort of allegiance to it. She can’t be impartial on any case involving the Constitution as she’ll always side with it.”

Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris amplified the concerns. “We would prefer to have someone who has never read the Constitution,” she told reporters while loudly cackling at an inappropriate time in the conversation. “We can’t have a justice who is biased about what the Constitution does and doesn’t allow the government to do.
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The Democrats should be upset that Ginsberg did not retire while Obama was still in office … she certainly should and could have given her health and age … I think their [the Dems] rage at the Republicans is misplaced and obviously their icon was perhaps more narcissistic than Trump … she could not trust the Democratic President Obama to nominate a judge to carry on her legacy … no she - Ginsberg decided that she needed to stay on the Court - no matter what …

God Bless her … she did the right thing IMHO … she gave President Trump the privilege to nominate her replacement
 
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YADA said:
The Democrats should be upset that Ginsberg did not retire while Obama was still in office … she could not trust the Democratic President Obama to nominate a judge to carry on her legacy …
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The problem was the same as for Garland–a Republican controlled senate (unless you are talking way back in 2008). I think she wanted someone as left as she was and knew such a person would never get through the Republican senate. So she held on until 2016 with the hopes of a Democrat takeover of the senate and presidency. But that didn’t pan out, so she was stuck trying to ride it out until the 2020 election–again with the hopes of a Democrat victory in both.
 
YADA . . .
The Democrats should be upset that Ginsberg did not retire while Obama was still in office … she certainly should and could have given her health and age … I think their [the Dems] rage at the Republicans is misplaced and obviously their icon was perhaps more narcissistic than Trump . . .
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Yep. They are PROJECTING their anger at themselves,
against others again.

They knew years ago that Bader should have retired.

I have posted MANY stories years ago from the leftists themselves saying this (that she needs to hang it up, “go away” (their words), etc. while Obama was still in office).

That all changed instantly when Trump took over.

The leftists attempted to emotionalize long life for Ginsburg with feelings based-articles, articles talking about Bader-Ginsburg’s workout routine, and their hope’s and dreams conflated with their opinions.

Rabid nationally-known abortion advocates cause some serious self-blindness against themselves.
 
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Really … she could have retired any time between 2008 and 2013 when the Dems controlled the Senate … she stayed because she wanted to - for the notoriety or her own selfish reasons … that she bet on the Dems maintaining control until her death or incapacity to stay on the Court was a bet she lost …
 
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Really … she could have retired any time between 2008 and 2013 when the Dems controlled the Senate … she stayed because she wanted to - for the notoriety or her own selfish reasons … that she bet on the Dems maintaining control until her death or incapacity to stay on the Court was a bet she lost …
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Exactly, this was all due to RGB’s hubris, her desire to make history and have Hillary nominate her replacement.

She could have retired in 2014 or 2015 and still had Obama replace her. The only complication would be the nomination would need to get GOP approval. Garland wasn’t nominated to replace Scalia till March 2016.
 
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She could have retired in 2014 or 2015 and still had Obama replace her. The only complication would be the nomination would need to get GOP approval. Garland wasn’t nominated to replace Scalia till March 2016.
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We are in agreement. The subtlety is that while Obama would surely have gotten a nomination through the senate in 2014 or 2015 (or just about any other time prior to Scalia’s death), it would not have been as to the left as RBG was. And so, we have an example of le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.
 
Maizie is a nasty piece of work,I say just ignore her,maybe she will just go away…
 
you say that as if Kagen and Sotomeyor are not as left or even more left of Ginsberg - when of course they are - perhaps even more so …

Ginsberg stayed long past when she could have left for her own selfish reasons … and if the Democrats are unhappy and angry that President Trump got a third SCOTUS pick - the blame is Ginsberg’s and hers alone. Not Mitch McConnell, Not President Trump, Not the Republicans …
 
Didn’t MH take an oath as rep of Hawaii to uphold, protect and defend the SAME constitution?
 
This just makes my jaw drop and I get a sick feeling in my stomach!!!

What KH is reported to say!
 
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vz71 . . . .
I do not believe Roberts can be counted on as a conservative.
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Unfortunately, I think you are correct.

I don’t even care if Roberts was conservative or not.
If he would just uphold the Constitution and the rest of the law, I would be satisfied.

But alas. It looks like he has gone the way of so many leftist activist judges.
 
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Here is another national leftist STILL carping about Bader-Ginsburg refusing to resign.
POLITICS ON LATE NIGHT

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Bill Maher says Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘should’ve quit’ under Obama: She didn’t ‘take the hint’​

Maher knocked the Democrats for having their SCOTUS plan be ‘Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t die’​

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“Real Time” host Bill Maher had some harsh words for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg . . .

. . . Kimmel then asked Maher when Ginsburg should have quit, which prompted him point to the 2013 lunch she reportedly had with President Obama, who apparently urged her to retire while he was still in office.

“The Democratic plan for the Supreme Court was ‘Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t die.’ And that’s why they’re such a loser party,” Maher explained while making an “L” sign on his forehead. "I vote for them. . . .
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