McConnell says Trump's court pick will get Senate vote despite Ginsburg's dying wish

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

Breaking: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who refused to consider President Obama’s choice months before the 2016 election, said in a statement Friday hours after Ginsburg’s death: “President Trump’s nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.”

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sent shock waves through the country Friday, igniting debate about the future of the high court and President Trump’s role in choosing a successor to the 87-year-old jurist.

Ginsburg died in her home in Washington, where she was surrounded by family, the Supreme Court said in a statement announcing her death. The cause was complications of metastatic pancreas cancer, according to the court.

A trailblazer for gender equality, Ginsburg was the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court and served there for more than 27 years. Her death sets up what is all but certain to be a fierce political fight over whether Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate will decide her replacement.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/18/reaction-ruth-bader-ginsburg-death/

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Of course. This is why people on DU have been sick about how the GOP operates.

ETA - his tweet.

Link to tweet

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Leader McConnell
@senatemajldr
The Senate and the nation mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.

My full statement:
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8:55 PM · Sep 18, 2020

[bucolic_frolic]

1. May God himself strike for humanity.

[onecaliberal]

2. People need to pack the senate building where these peoples offices are and dog them with questions

About the lying the dead the bounties and why they thought it was fine to deny democrats and vote but they don’t play by the same rules. Make them answer the fucking questions. Follow their every god damn move.

[marble falls]

3. We need to take the Senate: Thomas and a couple of others won't be around forever.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. No hearings, no vote

May all the Democrats and some Republicans in the Senate chant two words: MERRICK GARLAND.

And may all the Democrats and some Republicans refuse to come to the Senate chamber to vote, denying a quorum.

[Deuxcents]

5. O no!

Fuck him and rest of his cult. She’s not been gone a couple of hours and this is his statement?

[left-of-center2012]

6. The GOP must be dancing a jig

[Alpeduez21]

7. I HAVE NO SAY IN MITCH'S POWER

because I don't live in Kentucky but that motherfucker is fucking my life up. The system is fucking bullshit.

[kimmylavin]

8. What a GHOUL.

Couldn't even release a separate statement?
Jesus.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Here was his fucked up "statement"

Link to tweet

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Leader McConnell
@senatemajldr
The Senate and the nation mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the conclusion of her extraordinary American life.

My full statement:
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8:55 PM · Sep 18, 2020

That's how they roll.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

23. The Grim Reaper couldn't even wait a full day before vowing to let Trump get his way.

I'll be surprised if there's not another Trump SCOTUS justice by the end of next week.

[Karma13612]

9. I look forward to legal scholars

Weighing in.

[Heartstrings]

10. And here's his statement.

Fuck him, fuck him, fuck him, fuck him!

[Grokenstein]

11. That didn't take long. Turtle can move when he wants.

...Do he and the wifey still dine in public?

[riversedge]

12. OMG. damn.

[Karma13612]

14. Go have intercourse with yourself you piece of excrement. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 nt

[bucolic_frolic]

15. McConnell has really handed Amy McGrath an issue, hasn't he?

Hypocrite! Liar! Snake! Bum!

[Lonestarblue]

24. I don't think so.

Kentucky is full of right-wing evangelicals who are part of Trump’s cult. The idea of finally being able to overturn Roe v. Wade is enough to make Kentucky vote for McConnell again. They also like the fact that he’s packing the federal courts with rabid, right-wing anti-immigrant judges who support white privilege and curtailing civil rights. Some have even refused to answer questions about whether Brown v. Board of Education was correctly decided and have supported segregation in their writings. Some have no writings because they’ve never been judges or prosecuted cases because they have no experience!

Like many red states, the blue areas in Kentucky are in the major cities, but there may not be enough of them to overcome the rural red areas.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

16. If blatant hypocrisy were a fatal disease,

there would be no Republicans still living.

[CaptainTruth]

17. Remember Merrick Garland #RememberMerrickGarland

[Initech]

18. Go shove your vote up your ass, McConnell.

[rdking647]

19. be a shame if something happened to mcconnell.....

[ancianita]

20. Doesn't even wait for a proper national mourning and funeral.

[chriscan64]

36. Body's not even cold.

Scooch over Nixon, make some room in Hell.

[burrowowl]

21. May McConnell go toHELL!

[Raven123]

22. That's not what Mitch argued in 2016

He is on record saying the nomination should be deferred until the presidential election is decided.

[RandomHall]

25. Impeach Trump (again) and tie up the Senate in a Trial

Impeach Trump (again); we know he deserves it for many newly discovered crimes, including more abuse of power. Then Speaker Pelosi can send the Articles of Impeachment over to the Senate for the trial.

The Impeachment trial would have priority over any other Senate business, and this could thwart McConnell's attempts to hold hearings and a vote on a Supreme Court nominee.

Whether the timing of sending the Articles of Impeachment is for before or after the November 3 election day, depends on McConnell's strategy. He may wish to wait until after November 3, for a lame-duck session, to therefore not endanger the re-election efforts of several key Republican Senators. (But approving a Supreme Court nominee in a lame duck session is even more un-democratic, but on-brand for the Republican party.)

In any event, we must continue to work for the election of Biden/Harris, and all Democratic party candidates in House, Senate, and state legislature campaigns.

[orleans]

26. this from cnn's ongoing page

"Here is a list of four Republicans senators who have said they will oppose a vote before the election:

Maine Sen. Susan Collins told the New York Times, “I think that’s too close, I really do."

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in September said, "Fair is fair," and she would not vote to replace RBG before the election."

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham in October 2018 said, "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election. And I've got a pretty good chance of being the Judiciary [Chairman]. Hold the tape."

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley said in July he would follow the Biden rule, "I'm just following what was established by the Biden Rule in 1986 and then emphasized by him in 1992... They set the pattern. I didn't set the pattern. But it was very legitimate that you can't have one rule for Democratic presidents and another rule for Republican presidents."
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-death-live-updates/h_73403b4eaf42724ec9db79154591d223

[mahatmakanejeeves]

27. Seen at Popehat:

CompulsoryPatriotismHat Retweeted

US senator Mitch McConnell announces traditional ten minute delay on consideration of new judges to honor memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

2020 is shit. So do something to make 2021 better.
#RIPRBG

Link to tweet

[jorgevlorgan]

28. I feel like this can lose him his seat if McGrath really hammers away on it.

[William Seger]

31. But he knows they'll probably lose the Senate no matter what he does

... so it's now or never.

[jorgevlorgan]

32. They lose the Senate they most likely lost the presidency

Which means a stacked court if they nominate somebody. I guess it's a lose lose situation for that loser.

[TeamPooka]

29. It's convenient to have no morals or scruples.

[King_Klonopin]

43. "He has the morals of a gangster and the scruples of a guinea pig!" -- Sidney Falco

[electric_blue68]

30. McConnell you Are SCUM!!!!! 😩😩🤬🤬🤬🤬

[SergeStorms]

33. That was a no brainer.

Republicans are completely without honor or morals. May they reap the whirlwind of the coming complete Democratic president and Congressional majority.

[keithbvadu2]

34. Trump/McConnell's choice?

Trump/McConnell's choice?

Barr? Rudy? Palin? Huckabee?

Not qualified? Does that matter to T / M?

[niyad]

35. May that revolting, hypocritical, lying partisan hack mcconnell receive everything he deserves.

[rockfordfile]

37. Not surprised

[chriscan64]

38. I have a little hope this will not come to pass.

My first thought after heartbreak for Justice Ginsberg herself was that Merrick Garland should just put on a robe, show up to work, put his lunch in the break room and punch in. Fuck 'em.

[roamer65]

39. Stack the court.

First new seat goes to Merrick Garland.

[joshcryer]

40. How the fuck can the opposite party nominate a SCOTUS nominee in an election year?

That line is such bullshit and so loaded that it's a joke. It's actually the most stupid thing I've ever read.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. The GOP mantra is

What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine. In other words IOKIYAR.

[joshcryer]

50. The point is only the party in power can nominate.

There is no "vote for an opposing parties nomination" because the opposing party can't freaking nominate! It's absolutely ridiculous.

[BumRushDaShow]

51. "There is no 'vote for an opposing parties nomination'" - you gotta learn Turtle-speak

It's his convoluted way of saying -

If WE are in power and WE win, WE will decide who WE will nominate, and

if YOU are in power and WE win (and control the Senate), WE will decide who WE will nominate (by BLOCKING YOUR NOMINATION), and

if YOU are in power and WE lose, WE will decide who WE will nominate (if we control the Senate).

Get it? (I'm serious though)

If we don't get the damn Senate back, Biden could win and Turtle would NEVER allow a vote for the SCOTUS vacancy as long as he is still in office in that position of Majority Leader. He has shelved literally hundreds and hundreds of pieces of legislation sent over to him by the House over the past 3 years while DUers whined asking why Pelosi and the House "haven't done anything" or "haven't done enough".

The only scenario where WE get to "decide" is taking back the Senate and controlling that process. This is how far this country and its government have fallen.

[mdbl]

42. The thread headline should read like this....

McConnell says Trump's court pick will get Senate vote because I am the ultimate hypocritical bastard with no moral compass or regard for any statements I have made in the past.

[no_hypocrisy]

44. Hey Mitch! What's the hurry?

Are you afraid that Your Boy is going to lose the Election, not be re-elected, and you'll lose the chance to select the next Justice? I mean, you ALREADY HAVE A MAJORITY ON THE COURT. What's your rush? Can you be more disrespectful? You won't be happy until all nine USSC Justices (inc. the Chief Justice) are all Federalists.

[Vinca]

45. Did anyone expect anything other than this?

The only hope is a block by senators up for election in swing states.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. Exactly

and as I read this morning, the pressure is being put on Teabagger Toomey here in PA.

Link to tweet

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Linda Clarke
😷
@LindaMLC
Toomey took a stance on Obama’s last Supreme Court nominee. He’ll face pressure to stick to it now. https://inquirer.com/politics/pennsylvania/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-replacement-pat-toomey-bob-casey-20200918.html?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar
via @phillyinquirer
Toomey took a stance on Obama’s last Supreme Court nominee. He’ll face pressure to stick to it now.
Toomey cited the proximity of a presidential election when he balked at the prospect of filling an open Supreme Court seat in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency.
inquirer.com
12:18 AM · Sep 19, 2020

Unfortunately since Toomey is not up for election this year (he managed to get re-elected during the 2016 fiasco), he'll probably have amnesia and think that the situation this time is somehow "different". This despite the fact that Scalia died in February 2016, Obama nominated Garland in March 2016, and ass-Turtle sat on that nomination for fucking 9 months to allow the Senate term and nomination, to expire. Garland's nomination wasn't 6 weeks before the election like this upcoming one would be, it was 8 MONTHS before.

[Hugin]

46. WTH is he going on about expanding the GrOPper majority in 2018?

[BumRushDaShow]

48. The GOP base won't know it's an exaggerated lie.

The GOP did have a net gain of 1 in the Senate but then a net lost of 41 seats in the House.

[Firestorm49]

49. "No Supreme Court votes during an election year". McConnell. Unless it benefits the GOP. 🖕