Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
On the court issue, Democrats are exhibiting something akin to panic. They are warning that if a conservative jurist like Barrett is confirmed, Democrats may retaliate by “packing” the Supreme Court — increasing the number of justices from nine to 11 and installing two new liberals — if they win the presidency and Senate.
“As everyone knows, I made it clear that my first choice for the Supreme Court will make history as the first African American woman justice.”
So Joe Biden promised. Since the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, however, Biden has refused to produce a list of Black female judges and scholars whom he would consider for the now-vacant seat.
What is his problem?
Donald Trump had no such reluctance. In 2016, he listed a slew of candidates from among whom he promised to pick his justices. True to his word, Trump elevated federal appellate court judges Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
Since the Kavanaugh confirmation, Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been openly discussed as a potential Trump choice to succeed liberal icon Ginsburg. Why is Biden so reluctant to reveal some highly qualified Black female judges? His refusal suggests that the kind of high court judges that America wants is not the liberals’ issue. It is Trump’s issue.
The president will announce his choice Saturday, after the mourning period for Ginsburg is over. Mitch McConnell’s Senate is expected to confirm the new justice in late October.
With the court’s ideological balance at stake, the battle from now to Nov. 3 is thus for all the marbles: control of the House, the Senate, the presidency and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rarely has there been an election in which the stakes were so high, the ideological gulf so great and the outcome in such doubt.
The polls show Biden ahead, but Democrats are visibly nervous. Of greatest concern — the possibility that, Tuesday night, Biden, in the first debate, with his verbal and mental lapses occurring frequently now, could kick it all away in front of millions of voters.
On the court issue, Democrats are exhibiting something akin to panic. They are warning that if a conservative jurist like Barrett is confirmed, Democrats may retaliate by “packing” the Supreme Court — increasing the number of justices from nine to 11 and installing two new liberals — if they win the presidency and Senate.
If a Scalia constitutionalist is nominated and confirmed this year, says Sen. Chuck Schumer, “nothing is off the table next year.”
Other Democrats are threatening to pack the Senate by granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico. This would add four new Democratic Senators and formally convert the United States into a bilingual nation.
Nancy Pelosi has threatened a new impeachment of the president if he appoints a new justice to fill Ginsburg’s seat. Yet, this is what Article II of the Constitution directs Trump to do.
Activists are talking about “burning down” the system, and given what we have witnessed in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and Louisville, the BLM crowd and its media camp followers should be taken seriously.
Should Democrats win the Senate and White House, they will face one obstacle to imposing the Biden-Bernie-Socialist-AOC agenda on the nation. Only the filibuster, the ability of a Senate minority, through extended debate, to delay, and occasionally frustrate, the will of the majority, would stand in the way of their turning their radical agenda into law, as LBJ did with his massive majorities in 1965.
This is no idle threat. Even Barack Obama is calling for abolition of the filibuster, stripping a Republican Senate minority of its last weapon of resistance in the world’s greatest deliberative body.
Another danger facing the GOP is its demographic demise if it fails to control immigration.
Currently, white folks, who produce the vast majority of GOP votes, are 60% of the nation. The Black population is 12-13%, Hispanics 18%, Asian Americans 7%.
The GOP demographic crisis: The white population is steadily diminishing as a share of the electorate. Hispanics and Asians, who vote 2-1 Democratic in presidential elections, are the fastest-growing minorities and are being fed by the largest streams of migration.
A few years hence, the GOP will face the fate it failed to avert in California. Once the Golden State was Nixon and Reagan country, as those two Republicans carried California on all seven presidential tickets on which they ran from 1952 to 1984.
Moreover, former red states such as Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Arizona are now swing states, and Texas is trending that way.
Democrats, too, have a white folks problem.
At the party’s apex are Speaker Pelosi and Majority Whip Steny Hoyer, both octogenarian white folks. Senate Minority leader Schumer and Minority Whip Dick Durbin are white septuagenarians.
Presidential nominee Joe Biden is a 77-year-old white man who would be older than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, was the day he left office.
The last white man appointed to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president was Stephen Breyer back in 1994. At 82, he is now the oldest justice serving.
The days of white liberals dominating the rising party of America’s people of color may be over this decade.
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The sheer belligerence and hostility on display by the democrats is nothing short of deranged,psychotic and irrational. Surely,no enlightened citizen with a half a brain and any common sense would consider voting for such a demonic, maniacal political party.
“…if they win the presidency and Senate.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
The threat of treasonous action by democrats should be addressed and now, not later when the actions can actually damage the Republic. The threat of damage should be adequate.
I guess we just hope that Trump wins the election and then we only have to deal with the riots and whining and complaining from the left.
It would be hard to imagine a more meaningless concern than the Supreme Court of the USA.
The experiment is over. The Nation as it was founded is dead, it’s never coming back and you could pack it with 2,600 monkeys and get the same sort of opinions you’re getting now. The SC takes less than 1% of the cases that are presented and it rules however it likes on some of the most ridiculous concepts known to man as if they were serious, as if the Founders ever enshrined the rights of transsexuals into law.
Pat is suffering from a kind of dementia reserved to those who still think that the forms are the reality.
The only thing that matters right now is what is, not what should be or could be.
Sorry Pat, but your ship of state has sailed.
HF- So, are you declaring that the US is merely in limbo or full retard NWO? Have the Zionist/Commies succeeded in an overthrow? We gave up without a fight or a whimper? Just a state of mass/masked clueless idiocy?
He’s saying the Republic, as we were taught to recognize it, is finished.
There are reasons the US was envisioned as a republic and the trappings of elite royal titles were shunned. Monarchy and the disorder of simple parliamentary systems allowed the ascent of elite autocrats and despotism of the majority. I quit believing in the Rule of Law immediately after seeing the behavior of Comey, Brennan, and others going unprosecuted. Hillary and the rest of the Progressive scumbags proactively calling for the destruction of the electoral system is a big indicator something is seriously wrong with the mindset of so-called American leadership.
No, we didn’t give up without a fight. It’s coming and it’s gonna be hell on wheels as the Union fractures.
Just admit it Pat, the Supreme Court has been 100% Jewish for years, if not decades.
Stop misdirecting and misinforming the public;
https://tinyurl.com/ya9hmx6w
I’m pretty sure Miles is a jew, sounds Jewish anyways