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Re: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Post by cthia   » Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:28 am

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A powerful personality. She is responsible for more burned bras than a landfill.

I never got a chance to see On The Basis Of Sex.

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Re: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Post by gcomeau   » Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:53 am

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WeberFan wrote:
Annachie wrote:and before the ink was dry on the announcement Mitch McConnel announced that the Senate will vote for whoever Trump nominates.

As if he himself never announced that the Senate shouldn't this close to an election.

Let the shit fight begin.

If only the Democrats hadn't eliminated the filibuster on judicial appointments...


They were given no choice, the Republicans were grossly abusing filibuster procedures to block judicial appointments just for the sake of blocking them. They even openly admitted to blocking nominees to whom they had no objections for the sole reason that Obama was appointing them. It was a blatant misuse of the procedures.

That couldn't be allowed to just stand.
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Re: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Post by WeberFan   » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:33 pm

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n7axw wrote:
WeberFan wrote:If only the Democrats hadn't eliminated the filibuster on judicial appointments...


Point. But the difficulty was that judicial vacancies weren't being filled...and then after the Republicans took the Senate Obama's appointments were slow walked.

As politically charged as things are right now it is hard to see a good solution to the matter.

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It has gone both ways. Neither side is innocent on the "let's hold up the judicial nominations" front. Senator Reid did the same thing. If only our elected members of the House and Senate could do what we pay them to do... WITHOUT the puffery.
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Re: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Post by gcomeau   » Wed Sep 23, 2020 2:28 pm

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WeberFan wrote:
n7axw wrote:
Point. But the difficulty was that judicial vacancies weren't being filled...and then after the Republicans took the Senate Obama's appointments were slow walked.

As politically charged as things are right now it is hard to see a good solution to the matter.

Don

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It has gone both ways. Neither side is innocent on the "let's hold up the judicial nominations" front. Senator Reid did the same thing.



Ummm, no. Just no.

https://images.theweek.com/sites/defaul ... buster.jpg

Use of the filibuster historically. When the graph is blue that means Dem control, so GOP filibustering. When it's red, GOP control, Dems filibustering.

Every time the use of the filibuster leaps dramatically upward over previous normal values it's when the GOP is filibustering in the minority. They escalate every damn time. Then the Dems have no choice but to respond in kind because you can't just let one party abuse the system and let them get away with it.

Then the GOP just escalate AGAIN. They're ALWAYS the ones making it worse.
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Re: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Post by Dilandu   » Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:10 pm

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A great person. May she rest in peace.
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Let's shorten it to very end - the length of Fuhrer's grave.

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Re: RIP Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Post by n7axw   » Sat Sep 26, 2020 4:11 pm

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Dilandu wrote:A great person. May she rest in peace.


Indeed she was. Nice to see you posting, Dilandu, even if we occasionally get tangled up.

Don

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