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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAK Senator Murkowski said today she won't confirm a new justice until after inauguration day
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
so we shall see if she holds to that statement.....
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,572 posts)Mitch says jump and you'll fucking jump.
JI7
(89,237 posts)we should encourage it.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)Claustrum
(4,845 posts)It's easy to say it as a "theory". It's hard when the republican party is breathing down your neck. Not everyone is John McCain.
New Breed Leader
(622 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)how can #fatdonnie and turtle will persuade her
uponit7771
(90,301 posts)In It to Win It
(8,222 posts)mysteryowl
(7,361 posts)We can't forget that we have a couple Dem Senators that vote with repukes too, which will affect the count.
AkFemDem
(1,823 posts)Theres precedence for her bucking republican pressure. I hope she does this time too... but shes not enough is she? How many need to agree not to vote before inauguration for it to work?
That is at least one. I hope they respect Ginsburgs wishes, buy the Repukes dont have any human decency.
MiniMe
(21,708 posts)Tom Traubert
(117 posts)She needs to if wants to have even an ice cubes chance in hell of holding her Senate seat (and it wont work). And I can see Romney doing the same thing. We have to hold out a little hope.
AdamGG
(1,284 posts)between election day and January
quakerboy
(13,915 posts)Even if romney, murkowsky and collins all hold out.. that makes it 50-50 and pence decides it.
However.. given that at this point their most realistic plan for success involves having the supreme court completely stacked and then overriding the vote to deny bidens victory.. why wouldnt they just offer to do the same for collins, thus negating her need to legitimately win, and removing any reason for her to even pretend to be on the fence?
Tom Traubert
(117 posts)Hickenlooper is up in polling by double digits. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/colorado/. I dont think Cory Garner can support the filling of the vacancy on SCOTUS. Grassley previously has said that he wouldnt fill a vacancy in an election year. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/supreme-court-ruth-bader-ginsburg-mcconnell-murkowski-grassley.html. Whether his tune now is going to be an issue for him. Im not sure this will even get out of Committee until after the election. What happens in a lame duck Senate if we are lucky enough to take the majority may be an issue. But it also will have lasting percussions for the Republican Party forward.
This obviously does change the dynamic of the upcoming election, and will GOTV for both major parties.
RockRaven
(14,883 posts)I'm not counting on this until she actually does it.
That said, if 4-5 GOP Senators could be convinced that this was the only way to avoid Biden expanding SCOTUS, maybe it will prove to be the start of something.
Raven123
(4,775 posts)It would be a careless remark. Doesnt sound like Murkowski.
brush
(53,726 posts)bluestarone
(16,846 posts)Out of RESPECT for RBG. the rethugs should NOT vote until AFTER election!
AZ8theist
(5,406 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Lets not count on unicorns, okay?
nsd
(2,406 posts)She's not the same as Collins.
hamsterjill
(15,220 posts)Murkowski was safe in her stance.
She will cave.
Thekaspervote
(32,688 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)a Mormon woman, I can't see Romney going against that.
Chili
(1,725 posts)would she also not confirm to save her Senate seat? Cuz she's in trouble up there... would it help her campaign if she refused to confirm?
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Shes a good little Nazi.
dalton99a
(81,376 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)I think Collins will say something similar. Maybe Romney. I don't know who else we could count on.
democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)He's moderate on some things but very conservative on social issues. He probably wants a conservative in that seat. I'd look more to vulnerable swing state senators like Collins and Gardner.
democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)Apparently Romney says he won't vote to confirm anyone before Inauguration Day either. We just need one more...
Good news on the one hand. On the other hand, this will galvanize Republicans, including those who were squeamish about Trump. Scalia's open seat is probably part of why Hillary lost in 2016.
imanamerican63
(13,722 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Not exactly a profile in courage.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)McTurtle knows where the bodies are buried.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)There's still enough Republicans to confirm a nominee by a simple majority.
Even if Collins defects, that's still 52 Republicans. There'd have to be two more Republicans for it to really become interesting. I don't see two other Republicans out there, even if Grassley said prior to RBG's death that he would not support appointing a new justice during the campaign.
Mr.Bill
(24,228 posts)If the GOP assholes in the Senate pull another Kavanaugh move, It will cost them the Senate.
bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)Rebl2
(13,442 posts)beginning to think they knew this was coming. tRump put out a new list of candidates last week. They knew something.
Hassler
(3,365 posts)Lindseed, Tillis, Phony Joni, Gardner, corrupt Georgia, Daines and Martha McSleazy
BainsBane
(53,010 posts)How many more do we need?
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)not the Inauguration.
Leaves her with a lot of slimy wiggle-room.
Meanwhile, McConnell is claiming that tRump's nominee will get a vote on the Senate floor ASAP. The far-right is calling for a tRump appointee to be confirmed very quickly 'to prevent the election from being stolen'.
flying-skeleton
(696 posts)All it'd take to change her mind is some monetary incentive from #MoscowMitch. Isn't that how it always goes !!