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Si certus es dubita
Re: The Power of the SCOTUS VIII - I am certiorari we'll be arguing until Thanksgivin
The Republicans painted themselves into a corner by announcing they wouldn't consider a nominee before the ink was dry on the death certificate. They ought to have simply agreed to Donald's strategy: delay, delay, delay, without overtly signalling that they were purely motivated by political advantage and their 8th year running of Obama butt hurt.
So here's my plan. Put up Kamala Harris who has no desire to be on the Court. This introduces her to the country and allows Democrats to sing her virtues, and Republicans to employ their dog whistle racism and over the top rhetoric. The GOP wastes a few months on shadow theater, then they vote her down on party lines for no substantive reason at all.
The Republicans look like jerks to everyone except their hard core followers, who egg them on and make it even worse. The Democrats make their point that a candidate who would sail through in a normal situation has been assassinated by the Insane Clown Posse. Note this also plays out against the campaign, during which Cruz and Trump are trying to out-Goebells each other and Hillary is being slagged right and left by the RW Noise Machine, with all the collateral sexism that will happen from the outer provinces of Akin-land.
Clinton wins, the good guys take back the Senate, and then she nominates a young, hard-nosed LW Scalia who will dominate the Court for the next generation. When the GOP tries to block her, Schumer drops the H-bomb and we go to simple majority for cloture on SCOTUS votes, and the GOP can't say a peep because they just held the nation hostage for a year with their adolescent tantrum.
Harris, now a public figure and viewed extremely positively by liberals and moderate Democrats, is set up to become Governor of California on her way to running for President. If something goes insanely wrong and she actually is confirmed, she can write one or two interesting decisions restoring the voting rights act or protecting reproductive rights, then say she sees more of an opportunity to help America by executive action and retires from the Court, allowing Clinton to appoint that same young LW activist judge.
Everybody good wins and everybody bad loses, and in the end it's all the fault of the GOP and the Echo Chamber, and we are a year or two closer to their demographic flameout, with a Court that will nullify all their hamfisted voter suppression tactics.
There would finally be a light at the end of this godawful 36-year long tunnel of political FAIL, and a chance to put the US back on track, leaving the orcs to whine in their spider holes.
The Republicans painted themselves into a corner by announcing they wouldn't consider a nominee before the ink was dry on the death certificate. They ought to have simply agreed to Donald's strategy: delay, delay, delay, without overtly signalling that they were purely motivated by political advantage and their 8th year running of Obama butt hurt.
So here's my plan. Put up Kamala Harris who has no desire to be on the Court. This introduces her to the country and allows Democrats to sing her virtues, and Republicans to employ their dog whistle racism and over the top rhetoric. The GOP wastes a few months on shadow theater, then they vote her down on party lines for no substantive reason at all.
The Republicans look like jerks to everyone except their hard core followers, who egg them on and make it even worse. The Democrats make their point that a candidate who would sail through in a normal situation has been assassinated by the Insane Clown Posse. Note this also plays out against the campaign, during which Cruz and Trump are trying to out-Goebells each other and Hillary is being slagged right and left by the RW Noise Machine, with all the collateral sexism that will happen from the outer provinces of Akin-land.
Clinton wins, the good guys take back the Senate, and then she nominates a young, hard-nosed LW Scalia who will dominate the Court for the next generation. When the GOP tries to block her, Schumer drops the H-bomb and we go to simple majority for cloture on SCOTUS votes, and the GOP can't say a peep because they just held the nation hostage for a year with their adolescent tantrum.
Harris, now a public figure and viewed extremely positively by liberals and moderate Democrats, is set up to become Governor of California on her way to running for President. If something goes insanely wrong and she actually is confirmed, she can write one or two interesting decisions restoring the voting rights act or protecting reproductive rights, then say she sees more of an opportunity to help America by executive action and retires from the Court, allowing Clinton to appoint that same young LW activist judge.
Everybody good wins and everybody bad loses, and in the end it's all the fault of the GOP and the Echo Chamber, and we are a year or two closer to their demographic flameout, with a Court that will nullify all their hamfisted voter suppression tactics.
There would finally be a light at the end of this godawful 36-year long tunnel of political FAIL, and a chance to put the US back on track, leaving the orcs to whine in their spider holes.
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