McConnell vows Trump's nominee to replace Ginsburg will get Senate vote, setting up historic fight

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  1. FatBack

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    You might want to check your facts on Puerto Rico, especially look around June 11, 2017

    That still leaves open American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands

    The debate on DC and various ways he could gain representation is open and numerous ways have been floated that would give it Senators.
    In the end, it would come down to the SCOTUS which is now packed 11-6 with Democrats — once voters gave both chambers to the Democrats (it will happen eventually — will you be one of the first to tell your fellow Conservatives to stop whining?
     
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    Bleach?
     
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    You folks had it with Obama, yet none of your fantasies happened then. Instead all America got was that disaster Obamacare. You really think you can add two states and pack the courts? Wow...
     
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    I disliked Obama immensely so I have no idea what you are discussing.

    If you are just going to dodge the question we can end the discussion.
     
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    Yeah, we did fine. You really can't compare the US to 99% of other countries, because the population disparities don't scale, add in the sheer disparity in land area, number of cities and population centers and those little graphs are meaningless...
     
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    No, calling it a cult would be bigotry, calling it a delusion is simply fact.
     
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    none of those places want t be states. Why would dems force them?

    there is no debate...the Constitution requires a federal district
     
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    huh? no bleach isn’t a vaccine.

    bleach is what liberal media folks were saying to take and some dems did!!
     
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    Your first statement is false
    Your second one is up to the interpretation of the courts

    Why can you not answer my question?
    Several of you are running from it now...

    Strange, almost like you see the dangers of party over country but are unable to anticipate future events where your team isn’t in control...
     
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    Their last vote was over 97% in favor of statehood.
     
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    This is what your first statement should have been if you were just looking to hear your speak.
     
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    Indeed. There are religious people who aren't nutballs--my wife's aunt (RIP) who taught black children in the South in the 1960s. She lived the New Testament.
     
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    Hawaii had been U.S. territory for more than a half-century.

    Europeans (mostly) took over the East Coast of North America from aboriginal peoples. I guess you think our entire operation lacks legitimacy. What to do?
     
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    Assuming the population of the new state wants to join. That's never been the case for PR.
    As far as DC - as discussed previously, they can be absorbed back into Maryland - no need for a new state.
     
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    Funny ho you do not include the caveat.

    The statehood movement in Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estadidad de Puerto Rico) aims to make Puerto Rico a state of the United States. Five referendums have been held on the topic, most recently in 2017. The population of Puerto Rico in 2015 was over three million people and larger than that of 21 states.[1]

    In November 2012, a referendum, the fourth as of that date, was held. A full 54.00% voted "No" to maintaining the current political status. As their preferred alternative to remaining a commonwealth, 61.11% chose statehood, 33.34% chose free association, and 5.55% chose independence.[2][3][4][5] On December 11, 2012, the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico enacted a concurrent resolution requesting the President and the Congress of the United States to respond diligently and effectively on the demand of the people of Puerto Rico to end its current political status and to begin the transition of Puerto Rico to become a state of the union.[6]

    In 2014, resolutions were introduced in both houses of the United States Congress (H.R. 2000; S. 2020) to hold a yes-or-no referendum among the residents of Puerto Rico on statehood. If a "yes" majority prevailed, the President would have been required to submit legislation to Congress enacting Puerto Rican statehood.[7][8] Both resolutions died in committee.[9]

    A fifth referendum was held on June 11, 2017. Turnout was 23%, a historical failure in a territory where voting turnout usually hovers around 80%.[10] A boycott of the vote was led by the citizenry at large, citing discontent over never-ending non-binding referendums, and protesting Ricardo Rosselló's pro-statehood administration's choice to spend public funds in subsidizing this vote when the island was in the midst of a devastating fiscal crisis and battered by the imposed austerity measures of a non-elected fiscal control board regarded as the height of colonial imposition[by whom?]. Some would later try to attribute the boycott to the PPD party, citing its support for the status quo.[11] The numbers, however, do not support the notion that the boycott was divided along party lines. Of the minimal number of voters who participated, 97.18% chose statehood, 1.50% favored independence and 1.32% chose to maintain the commonwealth status.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statehood_movement_in_Puerto_Rico
     
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    This is okay for COVID-19 deaths...?

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    Canada is as urban as we are. Scaling up Canada (37,742,154 people) to our size (331,000,000 people) requires multiplying their numbers by 8.77. At this point, Canada has 9,211 deaths. Factored up, they would have 80,780 deaths.
     
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    The vaccine isn't a cure.
     
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    Apparently, you won't stop.
     
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    sure it will prevent people from getting it. The Trump Cure!
     
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    Please change your bait.
     
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    Unless you plan on using robots, how do you plan on depoliticizing the court when the justices have their own beliefs?
     

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