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Yes, so long as the Republican majority Senate backs him. The GOP majority leader has stated an intention to replace RBG already:
Yes, so long as the Republican majority Senate backs him. The GOP majority leader has stated an intention to replace RBG already:
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I am thrilled with the vacancy but I do not rejoice directly in the death of RBG. May she rest in peace.
Cost the election? I think it's more likely to electrify the base and encourage greater GOP turnout. When RBG is replaced it will be a real morale hit to the Democrat base, who may already feel the SCOTUS is lost. People who are concerned about Roe were never voting for the GOP anyway.
I think a lot of independents vote to keep balance - hence why you rarely see one party with control of congress, senate and presidency. The right being in control of the supreme court and looking to legislate people's lives may turn some votes towards the left to give some balance.
You need to read an encyclopedia and really put some thought into what you’re saying.
Yes, of course he didn't freely grant his political enemies more political power without any legal requirement or compulsion. That would be idiotic, wouldn't it? The Republicans controlled the Senate at that time by the will of the people. They were freely and fairly elected into power to stop Obama's agenda. The GOP majority senate did exactly what they were elected to do and were well within their legal and constitutional authority to do so. The Senate has not confirmed a SCOTUS nominee in the last year of opposing party presidency since the 1800s (Garland included). The Democrats would do exactly the same thing, and would have the legal right to do so, were the role reversed, and everyone knows this who isn't a complete political ignoramus.
Compared to the insults trump spews on a daily basis, that’s nothing.
Actually no. The opposition is NOT there just to oppose the opposition party. They are there to serve the American people and the president of the United States, not to stonewall them at every imaginable turn.
You do realize that the majority of republican led states are those that rely the heaviest on welfare, food stamps etc, right?I hear the libs are taking to the streets
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The Senate is there to serve the president? Absolutely not! The Senate is by design a check to his power. If it is in the interest of the Senate majority to cooperate with the POTUS, they will. It was not in the interest of the Senate to cooperate with Obama's nomination of Garland, period. And again, they did serve the majority of people who elected them and put them in power by their very act of delaying a Senate vote until the 2016 election. It was an obvious and wise political maneuver. A no-brainer. The GOP isn't in the interest of serving its ideological Democrat enemies so the left-wing media will praise them as playing nice. The GOP should fight them with maximum ferocity within the confines of morality and legality and shrewdly weaken and undermine them at every possibility while amassing more power to strike them harder. This isn't a game, it's a culture war for the soul of the nation.
The confines of morality? They’ve pushed the confines exactly how far they want to and then happily stepped over it. The GOP is a shadow of it’s former self as they pander to the crazy ideologies.
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