Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Are there Republicans who would really walk away from this last, best chance to secure the court, simply because the process offends their sense of proper procedure? This may be a hard vote for Murkowski, Collins and a few other Republicans. But to vote down a qualified conservative nominee, on the eve of a presidential election, would amount to a crippling blow to their party and to their reputations within that party.
President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are on the cusp of making history.
With Trump having named two justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, they have an opening to elevate a third justice to fill the seat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, thereby securing the constitutionalism of the court for a generation.
Trump and McConnell need only persuade 50 of the 53 Senate Republicans to vote to confirm the nominee Trump says he will send up at week’s end, following the days of mourning for Ginsburg.
Two Republican senators, however, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, have said that they will not vote to confirm a justice nominated this close to a presidential election.
Yet, if Trump appoints a qualified female jurist, as he has pledged to do, and she passes muster in the Judiciary Committee, would four GOP senators really collude with Chuck Schumer’s Democratic Caucus to kill that Republican nominee and risk having President Joe Biden fill the seat?
A Senate vote to reject a Republican nominee, in which Republican senators cast the decisive votes, would demoralize and divide the party on election eve and betray a cause for which some have fought for 50 years. It is hard to conceive of a greater act of political treason.
Many Republican presidents made strides toward recapturing the court after the radical rampage of the Earl Warren era. None achieved it. Three of Richard Nixon’s four picks went south on Roe v. Wade, and Justice Harry Blackmun authored the abominable decision.
Gerald Ford’s lone nominee, Justice John Paul Stevens, went left as soon as he went up. While Ronald Reagan nominated Antonin Scalia, his other choices, Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy, became “swing votes.” George H. W. Bush picked David Souter and Clarence Thomas, with the latter’s constitutionalism canceled out by the former’s liberalism.
But today, the hour of Trump’s triumph may be at hand, and the stark panic on the left testifies to it.
Mobs are forming outside McConnell’s home in Kentucky. Former Attorney General Eric Holder threatens that if Republicans confirm a justice this year, a Democratic Senate will cancel out its victory by “packing” the courts. Rep. Joe Kennedy III says that if McConnell prevails in 2020, “We pack the court in 2021.” Radicals are threatening to take to the streets and burn the country down if a Trump nominee is elevated.
Let them try.
When FDR, after his landslide reelection, sought to pack the court by increasing the number of justices in 1937, the result was a national recoil and a political rout that cost him 72 House seats in 1938.
Republican senators have to bite the bullet on this one and vote on whomever Trump nominates before this session of Congress ends.
And, in this battle, there is no room for conscientious objectors.
Even “Never Trumpers” and Republicans for Biden have to take a stand. For if they play a role in killing Trump’s nominee, and Biden wins in November, they will have helped to turn the Supreme Court over to leftist Democrats who will fill both the Ginsburg seat and that of Justice Stephen Breyer, 82, and hold the court for years.
Consider the issues that the new nominee will decide.
The cause of right to life. Affirmative action. Religious freedom. Immigration. Gun rights. All could be lost if the opportunity to fill the Ginsburg seat is forfeited by Republican defectors. The 50-year struggle to recapture the Supreme Court would be over.
Are there Republicans who would really walk away from this last, best chance to secure the court, simply because the process offends their sense of proper procedure?
This may be a hard vote for Murkowski, Collins and a few other Republicans. But to vote down a qualified conservative nominee, on the eve of a presidential election, would amount to a crippling blow to their party and to their reputations within that party.
It is said there is not time enough to get the vote done responsibly.
Nonsense. Gerald Ford’s choice of John Paul Stevens went through in 19 days. Only 49 days lapsed between the nomination of Ginsburg and her confirmation.
Of the nominees to the Supreme Court, those who have been brutalized worst in the last 50 years were all Republican appointees: Clement Haynsworth in 1970, Robert Bork in 1987, Clarence Thomas in 1991 and Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
No Democratic nominee has been savaged like these four federal court judges. And for Biden to condone a relentless partisan attack on a qualified female judge would seem to be risking the women’s vote in 2020.
Assume that Amy Coney Barrett, Catholic jurist and mother of seven, is nominated. Would fellow Catholic Joe Biden demand that his Democratic colleagues reject Barrett because she might be a vote against Roe v. Wade, which Joe now enthusiastically champions?
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This photograph is one day old. Senator Murkowski is one of the politicians who has said that she will not vote for any nominee that Trump puts forward.
Let’s do a quick gut check, feel the physiognomy internally- is that a person you would trust to make a decision for you? If you were driving and got lost, would that be the person you’d ask for directions?
This photo is four days old, obviously taken in an unguarded moment rather than one of her posed portraits where she flashes a very false smile. This is her at rest. What do your senses tell you about this person? This is the woman down the street that calls 911 because your dog got out. The only interest she has in you is causing problems in your life to make up for having been born with a face like that. Any moderately attractive woman out there will be able to tell you exactly the kind of friend she would be- the kind to spread rumors behind your back, to try and ruin your relationships, to call you a slut and a whore when you’re out of earshot.
These people telegraph their fitness through their appearance. In both cases you can easily judge a book by its cover, but we all pretend that these are serious people rather than the very small, petty and inconsequential nothings that they are in actuality.
Man…did you hit the nail on the head there. “Having been born with a face like that” Funny as hell,but so true.
I still think AOC is kinda hot.
Succubus
I’d still tap that. You’d have to be queer as winny to say you wouldn’t.
Best look at her when she is with no make up. She is a pig in every possible way!
I’d hit it and quit it!!Double rubbers though…
Why yes, indeed I am. That may be the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me and I’ll take it as a compliment, with your gay warts and all.
HSF
I would call that looking pensive. As in Senator Collins wondering how you came up with all that bullshit by looking a a picture of her instead of Senator Murkowski.
You can’t even get your senators right and you want us to believe you can read hearts by just looking a picture of someone else.
Here is a picture of Murkowski.
https://www.uarctic.org/news/2013/6/us-senator-lisa-murkowski-welcoming-address-to-the-council-of-uarctic/
She is the woman in the first hyperlink FB, didn’t you click on it?
Anon.
The 6×4 picture in the article is what his critique was centered around. That is Collins.
Secondly, no one can discern that much of a persons heart from a picture. It was an exercise in mind reading. Reflecting his prejudices onto a picture of the wrong person.
Thirdly, I would have to suspect there was something of value in the link before clicking it.
Any more questions?
You’re wrong.
Read it again but make sure to look at the first link.
“This photograph is one day old…”
Then the second photograph-
“This photograph is four days old…”
Now check for yourself.
Do you see where you were mistaken or do you want to keep digging for no discernible reason?
I don’t care if you believe in physiognomy or not, but I do.
Here is what you wrote just above a picture of senator Collins.
“This photograph is one day old. Senator Murkowski is one of the politicians who has said that she will not vote for any nominee that Trump puts forward.
Let’s do a quick gut check, feel the physiognomy internally- is that a person you would trust to make a decision for you? If you were driving and got lost, would that be the person you’d ask for directions?”
Here is what you wrote just below senator Collins.
“This photograph is one day old. Senator Murkowski is one of the politicians who has said that she will not vote for any nominee that Trump puts forward.
Let’s do a quick gut check, feel the physiognomy internally- is that a person you would trust to make a decision for you? If you were driving and got lost, would that be the person you’d ask for directions?”
Why did you include the wrong picture in between your text instead of the picture in the link that merely shows Murkowski at a very bad angle with an expression that does not even a partial context of what happened or was happening at the moment it was taken. That look could be any of us in a moment of surprise or any number of things. I posted a picture of her in a relaxed moment that looks entirely different. I am not her fan either. I have no use for Moderate Republicans.
As for Physiognomy, I do believe we can tell certain things by it but we cannot read their hearts like you implied in the text.
I wouldn’t fuck her with Stucky’s dick.
The least you could do is fuck her (AOC) with my dick then. You could do that for me as a friend.
I meant that nasty old Collins wench, not AOC.
If I could gag AOC everything would be OK. Those donkey teeth make me nervous about what to use for the gag though.
I hate professional liars.
Tell the truth about the 100% Jewish Supreme Court for once Pat.
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Trump’s judicial picks aren’t conservatives in the least – they are corporatist team-playing zionists with skeletons in their closet. The game they play is taking turns being the “bad guy” siding with the liberals out of some bizarre twisting of logic or reading of law. Obamacare? Funding of Planned Parenthood? Trans Rights? This is our “conservative” USSC.
TC- I find SCOTUS more dangerous that most commie groups operating in the US.
Agreed. They laminate our bullshit system with a shiny veneer of authenticity, when in reality America is little more than a banana republic hanging by a thread.
“elections have consequences”
barack obama.
I predict 2 justices will be appointed in the next 4 years, with Breyer and Thomas leaving the court and there is a chance Sotomayor may be replaced, as well.
These Senators need to think of the country and not their own political future. At the very lease, abstain and not join the demonrats. Has anyone heard from Joe Manchin, the only democrat senator who votes for the country?
I’m hoping the ‘John Roberts’ on Epstein’s flight logs which are scheduled to be released this week is shown to be Chief Justice John Roberts and he’ll have to resign. Imagine the sh*tstorm if Mr. Trump can nominate 2 justices in a week. 🙂
Nothing but a smokescreen to keep us distracted and fearful so we can’t think clearly.
We ended Obummers term tied at 4-4. Two hard right appointments later the Dems have a 5-4 lead and Trump is about to nominate a woman who will make it 6-3.
Pat is right. This is the last best chance to capture the Supreme court for the Democrats we will ever have.
Looks like Mitch has a copy of Epstein’s Diary.
Now if someone would only Scalia Justice Stevens…