BirdinBama
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So much for their "morality"! LOL!
Republicans have had plenty of opportunities to overturn Roe. They recognize that it's more valuable to leave Roe standing to turn out voters than to save millions of babies.
I long for the days when justices were nominated and not approved strictly along party lines. Ginsburg, in 1993, was approved with over 90 votes. If someone has risen to a circuit court position in this nation they are at a level that defies rational party line opposition. But that's what we've devolved into. Pathetic.
It makes no political sense for the Republicans not to nominate and confirm a justice to replace RBG. Why leave the spot vacant and give hope to the Democras that if they can beat Trump and win back the Senate, then they will be able to fill the seat? Not filling RBG's former spot on the SC before the election would simply be political stupidity.
Should Merrick Garland have had a hearing in the Senate?
I don't think this is the right question
I think the question is what do you think the Democrats should do/have done if the tables were turned?
Republicans...recognize that it's more valuable to leave Roe standing to turn out voters than to save millions of babies.
What party has held control of the Court since 1969? Republicans. What party blocked Garland's nomination in 2016? Republicans. What party used the excuse to block Garland's nomination that it was an election year and the voters should decide the issue? Republicans. What party has now done a 180 on that stance and is going to ram through a nominee, perhaps even before the election? Republicans. What party will have appointed a majority of the Supreme Court despite losing the national popular vote in 6 out of the last 7 presidential elections (and likely 7 out of 8 after November)? Republicans. What party over the past four years has rushed through a near-record number of federal judges in a single term - some of them simply unqualified far-right ideologues - to the federal bench? Republicans.
And what party will scream bloody murder and cry "you're destroying the Constitution!" if the Democrats get control of the Senate and WH and expand the size of the court and make other reforms? Republicans.
Should Merrick Garland have had a hearing in the Senate?
The political logic of the Republicans was to try to delay the nomination because that might give them a chance to nominate and confirm their own replacement for Scalia. It worked.
If your question is whether or not Garland was qualified to serve on the SC, then yes, as far as I am aware, he was. Garland's confirmation was blocked for political reasons. Just as the Democrats will try to prevent whomever Trump nominates, even if they are qualified, from being confirmed as a justice of the SC for political reasons. Other qualified nominees have been denied for political reasons in the past and will probably be in the future.
have there ever been instances of qualified nominees not even getting confirmation hearings? Bork got that.
do you think that Merrick Garland should have gotten a hearing in the Republican-controlled Senate because a Democrat president nominated him? politics aside, did the Republicans do the wrong thing in even preventing a hearing?
Republicans have had plenty of opportunities to overturn Roe. They recognize that it's more valuable to leave Roe standing to turn out voters than to save millions of babies.
What party has held control of the Court since 1969? Republicans. What party blocked Garland's nomination in 2016? Republicans. What party used the excuse to block Garland's nomination that it was an election year and the voters should decide the issue? Republicans. What party has now done a 180 on that stance and is going to ram through a nominee, perhaps even before the election? Republicans. What party will have appointed a majority of the Supreme Court despite losing the national popular vote in 6 out of the last 7 presidential elections (and likely 7 out of 8 after November)? Republicans. What party over the past four years has rushed through a near-record number of federal judges in a single term - some of them simply unqualified far-right ideologues - to the federal bench? Republicans.
And what party will scream bloody murder and cry "you're destroying the Constitution!" if the Democrats get control of the Senate and WH and expand the size of the court and make other reforms? Republicans.
Damn; can I get you any cheese with that whine?
All Dems have to do is go win the WH and win the Senate. Stop talking about it and get it done. 2020 is your chance.
If Dems put as much energy into getting out the vote rather than crying how they have been taken advantage of by Pubs, they would be a hell of a lot more successful.