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Author | Topic: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dead. The maneuvering begins! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
The longest time ever from nomination final Senate action is 125 days, for Mr Justice Louis Brandeis. As of today, there are 269 days until election day. I'd like to think that the majority of the population would protest a delay of that length, but the irrational level of hatred of all things Obama that teabaggers voice, I wouldn't venture to guess one way or another.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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There's talk that Sri Srinivasan could be the nominee. He was confirmed to the U.S.C.A. for the D.C. Circuit three years ago by a vote of 97-0. Even this Senate would have a hard time stonewalling him for 269 days.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Here is a list of Supreme Court Justices confirmed in an election year.
1. Oliver Ellsworth, 17962. Samuel Chase, 1796 3. William Johnson, 1804 4. Philip Barbour, 1836 5. Roger Taney, 1836 6. Melville Fuller, 1888 7. Lucius Lamar, 1888 8. George Shiras, 1892 9. Mahlon Pitney, 1912 10. John Clarke, 1916 11. Louis Brandeis, 1916 12. Benjamin Cardozo, 1932 13. Frank Murphy, 1940 14. Anthony Kennedy, 1988 Source Note that this list includes Frank Murphy, nominated and confirmed in 1940, only 76 years ago. Note also that there were two nominated and confirmed in 1796 by a Senate that included at least two members of the Constitutional Convention that drafted our current Constitution. If they thought this was a problem, presumably they would have spoken up.Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
The name that a lot of people are floating is Sri Srinivasan He was confirmed to the U.S.C.A. for D.C. just under 3 years ago by a 97-0 vote.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
According to this article, Bork was unanimously confirmed to the U.S.C.A. for D.C. by a voice vote; nobody even asked for a roll call vote.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
I'm not familiar with him either. But given that today "conservative" includes teabaggers, the mere fact that Obama has mentioned his name is probably enough for him to be labeled extreme.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
Waiting for the next president leaves the court short handed for more than a year. The next president won't be inaugurated until Jan 20, and it seems inconceivable that the nomination process would take less than 30 days.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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True. But I think it's a more compelling argument after the President is in fact a lame duck, so I framed the argument in the most favorable terms for the opposition to show how wrong-headed it is.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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subbie Member (Idle past 1245 days) Posts: 3509 Joined: |
The next Supreme Court Justice is going to be appointed by Obama, Trump or Clinton. Ball's in your court, Senate.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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