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Mohdoo
United States15742 Posts
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Kyadytim
United States886 Posts
On November 15 2022 03:39 Mohdoo wrote: Reading this on an RTS forum really hits differently.Even just judge flooding is fine and very productive. Just spam judges 24/7. Having zero judicial vacancies by the end of Biden's term would be a good step forward. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45378 Posts
On November 15 2022 05:48 Kyadytim wrote: Reading this on an RTS forum really hits differently. Having zero judicial vacancies by the end of Biden's term would be a good step forward. Why is this not a bigger priority for presidents? Why don't they fill all the seats they possibly can? Can the judicial appointments be blocked or something? | ||
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Kyadytim
United States886 Posts
On November 15 2022 08:00 DarkPlasmaBall wrote: There have been a number of ways for the minority party to block or slow down the process. The filibuster has been done away with, but there's still opportunities for delay in the judiciary committee and I think after the nominee has been approved by the committee.Why is this not a bigger priority for presidents? Why don't they fill all the seats they possibly can? Can the judicial appointments be blocked or something? To some extent, these delays aren't just waiting periods, but actually take up time, and the people involved only have so much time to spend on judicial nominations. Biden has nominated around 140 justices. I have no idea how many hours hearings can be extended to for maximum delay, but if each one is held up with 4 hours of hearings in committee and 4 hours in the general Senate, that's 140 eight hour days of hearings, which I'd say is at least 1/4 of the entire time the members of the house judiciary committee have actually been working since Biden's inauguration. | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32746 Posts
Arizona is getting bluer, and it doesn't hurt when the Arizona GOP decides to attack an institution like McCain's family. | ||
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plasmidghost
Belgium16168 Posts
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LegalLord
United States13779 Posts
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StasisField
United States1086 Posts
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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Sadist
United States7326 Posts
On November 15 2022 14:44 JimmiC wrote: I was quite surprised by the sheer number of election deniers that lost, then even even more surprised by how normal they acted after the loss. Progress I think, im more hopeful it will still be a place worth traveling too in the future. The Trump story is still the most intetesting though. Basically no one wanys to see him run. But that would be admitting defeat. Im still leaning towards him running. But if not, coldly and frequently laying into ron de"everchanging nick name". Might be some months of rep on rep violence. Ideal world is he runs, loses the primary, runs 3rd party and splits the republican vote. If he loses the primary he will 100% run 3rd party to try to fuck with republicans. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45378 Posts
On November 15 2022 22:02 Sadist wrote: Ideal world is he runs, loses the primary, runs 3rd party and splits the republican vote. If he loses the primary he will 100% run 3rd party to try to fuck with republicans. I would love for that to be true, but him running 3rd party would be an auto-loss for him in the general election, right after his hypothetical primary loss to the Republican nominee, and I'm not sure if his fragile ego can take two losses in such quick succession. Even Trump would know that he can't win the presidential election as a 3rd party candidate, and I don't know if him fucking over Republicans while losing again would be a net good or a net bad for his ego. | ||
KwarK
United States43739 Posts
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StasisField
United States1086 Posts
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
As the invertebrate Lindsey Graham said, they will be destroyed for joining Trump, and they will deserve it. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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StasisField
United States1086 Posts
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/senate-gop-leader-mitch-mcconnell-rick-scott | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45378 Posts
On November 16 2022 06:48 StasisField wrote: Senator Rick Scott from Florida is going to challenge McConnell for Senate Minority Leader https://www.axios.com/2022/11/15/senate-gop-leader-mitch-mcconnell-rick-scott To be fair, Mitch McConnell is really, really old... perhaps his influence is fading... so it might be good for Republicans to replace him with someone who's a young, energetic <checks notes> almost-seventy-year-old. No idea what the impact of this challenge will actually be, but I assume that Republicans blaming each other for the poor midterm results is probably a good thing for Democrats. | ||
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
Naw, it ain't because Trump picked bad candidates all of a sudden. It's because he's always been a stinking pile of shit who knew the smell of his kind better than anything else, and Republicans were too devoid of principle to do anything but get in line for the sake of power. It's like any time a boomer looks at how millennials and gen Z have essentially 0 financial freedom and treat it like some mystery, like the shitty selfish policies they've been driving their whole lives had nothing to do with it. | ||
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JimmiC
Canada22817 Posts
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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