Highland Deac
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Appointing/delaying/ manipulating judgeships has been going on in America since day one.
If the shoe was on the other foot are you saying the Dems wouldn’t do the same thing? I believe they would.
Dems will do what they have to do but expanding the Court will bring the battle to a whole new level.
Not saying I wouldn’t do it if I was the Dem Leader but as I said, what goes around comes around.
Be careful what you wish for.
Actually it hasn't been done on the level that McConnell and Senate Republicans started doing it in 2009. Is there any evidence that Senate Democrats delayed George W. Bush's nominees, or Reagan or HW's judicial nominees in the 80s, at the same level or same rate as McConnell and Senate Republicans over the past decade? I doubt it. The GOP has already taken this process to a whole new level, as McConnell all but admitted in his little speech. Again, what exactly do the Democrats have to lose? They aren't going to be able to get a SC majority for decades anway thanks to these deliberately younger justices (which is also a break with precedent.) And it doesn't matter what the Democrats do, the GOP will continue to change the rules and pack the courts and do whatever the hell they want when they get back into power. If the Democrats play by the old rules and be nice all they'll get whenever the GOP regains control will be more slaps to the face and more packing hyperpartisan judges onto the courts. The Democrats really do have nothing to lose as far as judges and justices are concerned, because the GOP will screw them irregardless of what they do or don't do.