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Posted by Anonymous
- October 12, 2020, 12:14:07 PMPosted by Anonymous
- October 07, 2020, 09:29:32 PMAlmost half, 46%, of voters polled by Morning Consult/Politico between Oct. 2 – 4 said that the Senate should confirm Barrett, the poll found. These numbers were up 9 percentage points since Trump first announced he was nominating Barrett on Sept. 26, according to the poll.
The percentage of Republican voters who back Barrett's confirmation rose six points from the previous month to 77%, the poll found, and the number of independent voters who said Barrett should be confirmed rose by eight percentage points to 36%.
The number of Democratic voters who agree Barrett should be confirmed rose by 10 percentage points to 24%, the poll found.
Posted by Anonymous
- October 04, 2020, 07:19:39 PMI expect Democrats to launch torpedoes at ACB, as Barrett is already being called, from two directions. After joining University of Notre Dame Law School faculty in 2002 and eventually gaining tenure, Barrett would have had a vote on every other candidate for tenure. Expect Senate Democrats to find a disappointed tenure-seeker who blames Barrett and is willing to testify against her.
Similarly, Barrett served for many years on the law school's Appointments Committee, and for a couple of years as its chair. No doubt, Democrats are scouring academia for anyone who failed to land a job teaching at ND Law and bears a grudge against Barrett.
I'm familiar with the workings of appointments and tenure committees from a quarter-century on the faculty of Chapman University's Fowler School of Law (I am on leave this academic year). Committee members try to be diligent and fair with every applicant for hiring or promotion. But these undertakings are not for the faint of heart. You disappoint vastly more people than you are able to please.
As a professor, Barrett will also almost certainly have had student evaluations filed every semester. Even for the best teachers, these evaluations, as with all large-enough samples, fall into a bell curve. Always. There is 10 percent of every class that most adores your style of teaching and a 10 percent that finds it least appealing or even loathes it. Expect to hear from some of Barrett's former students over the past 18 years who fell in the latter category. The former student with the deepest grievance has probably already contacted Senate Democrats.
Whether the Judiciary Committee hears that student — or the disappointed tenure-seeker, or the frustrated job applicant - is not inevitable. Graham needs to be fair, but he need not be a sucker for the sort of tactics that smeared Kavanaugh and Thomas with late-arriving allegations.
An open and fair process — with a beginning, an end and a vote — is what's needed. The same for the debate that will follow on the Senate floor. That final vote should occur before the Nov. 3 election. (As a practical matter, GOP Senate candidates risk getting wiped out if there is no vote before the election. Their base will stay home in disgust.)
I hope this possibly pessimistic preview of how Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee will behave turns out to be wrong. I hope senators and witnesses stay on the law and within the schedule. I hope Barrett adheres to the famed "Ginsburg rule," established during Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 1993 confirmation hearings.
As former U.S. attorney general Edwin Meese wrote in a 2005 essay about the "Ginsburg rule," the ground rules devised by the Judiciary Committee's then-chairman, Joe Biden, D-Del., "stipulated that she had no obligation to answer questions about her personal views or on issues that might come before the Court."
That approach has since served other nominees, and the court, and the country, and it should serve again. Graham ought to see to it.
Posted by cc
- October 03, 2020, 10:30:47 PMAnd they will .. even if by electronics
Posted by Anonymous
- October 03, 2020, 01:25:26 PMTrump told a group of Republican state attorneys general in September that he wants a nine-member Supreme Court as soon as possible in case the presidential election is litigated in the courts, USA Today reported.
"I think this will end up in the Supreme Court, and I think it's very important that we have nine Justices," Trump reportedly said. "I think having a 4-4 situation is not a good situation."
The 2000 presidential election was ultimately decided after the Supreme Court ruled that a Florida recount could not proceed. Confirming Barrett to the Supreme Court before November's election would allow a full bench to make a decision if the results are contested in the federal judiciary.
Posted by Anonymous
- September 29, 2020, 01:17:13 PMTwo of the three Democrats who backed Judge Amy Coney Barrett for a federal appeals court in 2017 plan to not support her nomination to the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg if the confirmation vote occurs before Election Day.
Posted by Anonymous
- September 26, 2020, 11:51:13 AM
The mail fraud in is the scariest thing ... It ethically sucks but exists
While TDS'ers blame him, I wonder how many unrepresented-by-press people out there actually feel that way??
I'm hoping he gets 57-58% of the popular vote or whatever is needed beyond just the Electoral so this BS ends....and it looks very possible.
There are a few issues I disagree with the Trump administration. But, there is nothing on which I agree with that empty shell Biden. From the economy to pandering to domestic terror to trade to international organizations, everything he supports is bad for Americans.
Posted by Frood
- September 25, 2020, 10:50:52 PM
The mail fraud in is the scariest thing ... It ethically sucks but exists
While TDS'ers blame him, I wonder how many unrepresented-by-press people out there actually feel that way??
I'm hoping he gets 57-58% of the popular vote or whatever is needed beyond just the Electoral so this BS ends....and it looks very possible.
Posted by Anonymous
- September 25, 2020, 09:20:39 PMPosted by cc
- September 24, 2020, 09:13:57 PMWhile TDS'ers blame him, I wonder how many unrepresented-by-press people out there actually feel that way??
Posted by Anonymous
- September 24, 2020, 09:11:34 PM
I never outright "predicted" last go round despite having considerable confidence in the ending .. .while everyone was saying what you are now
and I'm not "predicting" now
That said, comparatively speaking I'm even more confident / optimistic now than I was last time .. I like that same energy vs. yawn
A twist - Now they are virtually threatening violence if T wins ... that won't work well for them .. They are so desperate that they are doing many self-destuctive things
Hate causes people to do irational things
Trump wasn't being blamed for the coronavirus pandemic last time. There will be fraud with mail in ballots and it will work in Biden's favour. I don't see how Trump can win again.
Posted by cc
- September 24, 2020, 08:56:11 PMand I'm not "predicting" now
That said, comparatively speaking I'm even more confident / optimistic now than I was last time .. I like that same energy vs. yawn
A twist - Now they are virtually threatening violence if T wins ... that won't work well for them .. They are so desperate that they are doing many self-destuctive things
Hate causes people to do irational things
Posted by Anonymous
- September 24, 2020, 08:43:11 PM
Democraps and liberals of every strip have whipped themselves into foaming frenzy over Trump. It clouds their real world point of view and their judgement on just about everything they do and say. TDS is a very real thing and it is life altering for emotionally driven left wing wigglers. It's gotten to the point where many of them cannot function without their hate for Trump.
I have studied this phenomenon for the past 4 years and what started out as being mildly amusing has grown to the point of being frightening.
I have to agree with almost every word of that
It started before midnight election night (Eastern) when things they counted on began to fall ... then we witnessed media people literally crying as it became apparent that "she" was going down in flames ...The only thing I feel differently is that I saw it as immediate .. well, ok, after they slowed the crying so they could speak
Raw Hate can be a huge driver for those predisposed .. they best be carefull .. the overall situation is not very different than it was 4 years ago at this point in time
JoJo has little platform .. He's running "against T" instead of "for himself" .. which almost has to backfire on him
Biden works a couple of hours a day if that while Trump works his ass off. Biden won't give interviews unless the press is friendly and he has questions in advance so his team can answer them for him. But, despite the lack of effort and a campaign, he is all but guaranteed victory.
Posted by cc
- September 24, 2020, 08:32:47 PM
Democraps and liberals of every strip have whipped themselves into foaming frenzy over Trump. It clouds their real world point of view and their judgement on just about everything they do and say. TDS is a very real thing and it is life altering for emotionally driven left wing wigglers. It's gotten to the point where many of them cannot function without their hate for Trump.
I have studied this phenomenon for the past 4 years and what started out as being mildly amusing has grown to the point of being frightening.
I have to agree with almost every word of that
It started before midnight election night (Eastern) when the dominos they counted on began to fall ... then we witnessed media people literally crying as it became apparent that "she" was going down in flames ...
The only thing I feel differently about is that I saw it as immediate .. well, ok, after they slowed the crying so they could speak
Raw Hate can be a huge driver for those predisposed .. they best be carefull .. the overall situation is not very different than it was 4 years ago at this point in time .. except far more are induced to fib to the pollsters than last time .. and then there's the enthusiasm factor ... and I don't know how people showing up to vote against someone holds up against those enthusiastically voting for a person and his ideas
JoJo has little platform .. He's running "against T" instead of "for himself" .. which almost has to backfire on him
Posted by Anonymous
- September 24, 2020, 08:28:08 PMHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Sept. 23 threatened to introduce a motion to oust House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) if she attempts to impeach President Donald Trump or Attorney General William Barr to delay the Senate in confirming Trump's Supreme Court pick.
Pelosi on Sept. 20 was asked on ABC News about whether impeachment could be used as an option to prevent the Supreme Court nomination. She replied: "We have our options. We have arrows in our quiver that I'm not about to discuss right now."
McCarthy made mention of Pelosi's comment, saying Trump is correct in moving forward with a new Supreme Court justice nomination, which came after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death on Sept. 18.
"The president is supposed to move forward, and they will. The Senate is supposed to take the action, and they will—it's their constitutional right and they are following through," he told reporters in Washington.
"I will make you this one promise, listening to the speaker on television this weekend, if she tries to move for an impeachment based upon the president following the Constitution, I think there will be a move on the floor to have her no longer, or the question of her being speaker. She may think she has a quiver. We do, too."