It looks as if Justice Kennedy will not be retiring from SCOTUS in 2018

[junior chįmp]

Seems speculative but if true, then BIG

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[junior chįmp]

And now that Democratic Senate prospects are looking up, assuming they flip the chamber, Republicans may have to settle with "Garland or get bent" on any vacancies that arise post-2018. Aside from him, the Democratic base is never going to accept a Dem Senate confirming a Trump pick, and we may just have to stick with the Big Mitch precedent of 2016 - let the next president decide.

Which, to be honest, will only further compromise the judiciary when it's already been politicized to death.  Mitch set a really bad precedent, but unless Gorsuch resigns honorably and Trump has a sudden change of heart and appoints Garland in his place (i.e. what should have happened), the future of the integrity of the Court looks bleak.

Soon there will be a new tradition that the president can only appoint SCOTUS judges in the first two years of his term...

Honestly, I wish the parties would just stop this foolishness and agree that the party that wins the White House gets to pick the judges - within reason (so no incompetent candidates, perverts nor fringe ideological crusaders, and so on). This means going home and telling their voters that yes, it sucks they didn't win the White House and have to see liberal/conservative judges get appointed, but that's the way it is.

However, it's become clear that Republicans are prepared to steamroll over virtually any tradition or rule they can change in order to get what they want and consolidate power, so my opinion for now is that Democrats should just fight them ruthlessly over everything until America is hit with a realignment, which judging by Millennial voting habits, will not be favorable to the GOP. At that point, I'm hoping the country will depolarize some and we can stop bickering over every little scrap of power and influence. But until then, I'm not content to have my party roll over for a bunch of crusty old men who seem to not even recognize the legitimacy of the opposition's ability to govern.

The country won't depoloraize until Boomers are thrown out of office. Polarization in American society began with Boomers and accelerated when Boomers became the majority in Congress with Gingrich in 1994. As older generations died off....it only kept getting worse.

Now....the good news is that this will happen real soon. According to demographer Neil Howe, Generation X is the slowest ascending generation in America's entire history. They should of been the majority awhile ago but Boomers have clung on for artificially too long. My guess is 2018 and 2020 will be cause a gigantic exodus of Boomer trash from Congress due to Trump and the sweltering disgust that the public holds of the Republican clown show

[junior chįmp]

And now that Democratic Senate prospects are looking up, assuming they flip the chamber, Republicans may have to settle with "Garland or get bent" on any vacancies that arise post-2018. Aside from him, the Democratic base is never going to accept a Dem Senate confirming a Trump pick, and we may just have to stick with the Big Mitch precedent of 2016 - let the next president decide.

Which, to be honest, will only further compromise the judiciary when it's already been politicized to death.  Mitch set a really bad precedent, but unless Gorsuch resigns honorably and Trump has a sudden change of heart and appoints Garland in his place (i.e. what should have happened), the future of the integrity of the Court looks bleak.

Soon there will be a new tradition that the president can only appoint SCOTUS judges in the first two years of his term...

Honestly, I wish the parties would just stop this foolishness and agree that the party that wins the White House gets to pick the judges - within reason (so no incompetent candidates, perverts nor fringe ideological crusaders, and so on). This means going home and telling their voters that yes, it sucks they didn't win the White House and have to see liberal/conservative judges get appointed, but that's the way it is.

However, it's become clear that Republicans are prepared to steamroll over virtually any tradition or rule they can change in order to get what they want and consolidate power, so my opinion for now is that Democrats should just fight them ruthlessly over everything until America is hit with a realignment, which judging by Millennial voting habits, will not be favorable to the GOP. At that point, I'm hoping the country will depolarize some and we can stop bickering over every little scrap of power and influence. But until then, I'm not content to have my party roll over for a bunch of crusty old men who seem to not even recognize the legitimacy of the opposition's ability to govern.

The country won't depoloraize until Boomers are thrown out of office. Polarization in American society began with Boomers and accelerated when Boomers became the majority in Congress with Gingrich in 1994. As older generations died off....it only kept getting worse.

Now....the good news is that this will happen real soon. According to demographer Neil Howe, Generation X is the slowest ascending generation in America's entire history. They should of been the majority awhile ago but Boomers have clung on for artificially too long. My guess is 2018 and 2020 will be cause a gigantic exodus of Boomer trash from Congress due to Trump and the sweltering disgust that the public holds of the Republican clown show

politics have always been this polarized, the country simply didn't have social media and varied news outlets to express their own opinions. no one held hands and sang kumbaya before the boomers arrived to the scene.  half the public approves of trump so there is no sweltering disgust, just on the huff post and the coasts

Nope:



...And who's fault is it?



Face it...your party is a cancer on American civic institutions

[junior chįmp]

If the Dem's take control of the Senate in November 2018, this is what Kennedy and Co should do :

1.) Sometime in early 2019, Kennedy should make a public announcement that he plans to retire sometime in the near future, but is yet not sure on the exact date (this way Rep can burn, bitch, and pull their hair-out for a while).

2.) In late 2019, Kennedy makes a further announcement that he plans to officially retire on February 13 of 2020 (Scalia died on this exact date, Feb 13).

3.) The Orange-Haired Clown, being the assh**e that he is, of course announces that he plans to name a replacement.

4.) Chuck Schumer and the Dem Senators (with a Yuge smile on their face) give trump and McConnell the middle finger.

Kennedy is still a mostly partisan Republican...I doubt he we would coordinate with Democrats on some kind of strategy to troll Trump

[junior chįmp]

such a cancer that the public entrusts with control over the WH, Congress, and the vast majority of states? dems are masters of faux outrage, no tangible results for all their anger and vitriol

Read it and weep....GOP is done!

What Time Is It? Here’s What the 2016 Election Tells Us About Obama, Trump, and What Comes Next

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