Breaking: Democrats Push Sotomayor to Resign From Supreme Court!

Breaking: Democrats Push Sotomayor to Resign From Supreme Court!

Link: Democrats Push Sotomayor to Resign From Supreme Court | Newsmax.com

Now that the election is OVER, the Biden regime wants to pull an 'end-around' run to get another liberal Justice appointed before the Republicans take over the Senate in January.

Democrats will say, "Yeh, but Trump did this to get a Justice on the Supreme Court in 2020!" Well... there's one VERY big difference. Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett BEFORE that year's election and she was confirmed by the Senate BEFORE the election. Democrats wants to pull this off now that it appears that a majority of voters have tossed them out of leadership in every branch of government!

Democrats have been worried about Justice Sotomayor's health all year long, and there was even a plan that she might retire and that they'd have a handy place to stick Kamala so that she wouldn't muck-up their chances of winning the presidential election ( ). But will this after-the-fact kind of manipulation be OK with most Americans now? What say you?

 

More democrat leader scumbaggery. Who is actually shocked though?

 

It’s to be expected at this point. McConnell blocked Obama’s picks under the similar conditions.

We’re in the era of chicanery.

 

The 'conditions' are not at all "similar". As I pointed out, there is one ENORMOUS difference....

What Trump did after Justice Ginsburg passed away was completely by-the-rules, legal, and 'within the lines' -- even though it was done for political expediency. But what these Democrats are trying to do with this slimy Sotomayor ploy may not even be legal -- and it sure as hell wouldn't be the least bit ETHICAL at all!

They lost the election -- "lock, stock, and barrel". THEY'RE OUT! They've lost the White House, they've lost the Senate, and they're just a few seats short of losing the House, too. If they had gone ahead and gotten Justice Sotomayor to resign last spring (like it looked like they might do), it would have been a perfectly permissible action.

And, even if they had replaced her BEFORE the election, it would also be just as acceptable and legal as what Trump did in 2020. But, to try to do this now, AFTER the election, would be the most rotten, unethical thing I can imagine... and it's hard to imagine that most Democrats would think that pulling some kind of crap like this would be acceptable to them, either!

 

Okay.

 

Never mind Ginsburg. Scalia!

How is it not legal?

 

In all honestly, I see why the Democrats are pushing her. They are terrified of another Trump SCOTUS pick. Unfortunately, however, it would be done during a lame duck administration and would probably be blocked like with Garland.

 

In neither of those cases, the one involving the passing of Justice Ginsburg, and the other being the death of Justice Scalia, did anyone consider trying to 'cram' the nomination and appointment of a replacement Justice to the Supreme Court THREE DAYS AFTER AN ELECTION that directly indicated who could, and could not, conduct the replacement process! That is the thing that stinks, Golem, and even the mere consideration of doing something like that itself stinks to high heaven! My opinion of Democrats after John F. Kennedy was assassinated has never been high -- but I've never thought that any of them would stoop to a ploy like this!

Before an election, it's politically acceptable and 'within the lines'. AFTER an election, the mere thought of doing something like that is EXECRABLE!

I didn't say is was not legal, Golem... I said it MAY not be legal. But I'll bet that if the Democrats actually do try to pull this kind of unethical **** that it will end up being a matter for the Supreme Court itself to decide...!

 

Sounds good to me. We don't want mango mussolini ****ing up scotus as much as he's about to **** up our country.

Maga

 

Might remind everyone that Obama's pick for the Supreme Court was Merrick Garland, the current Attorney General, who is corrupt as hell. The country dodged a bullet when Mitch McConnel deep sixed that nominaiton. Say what you will about Mitch. I've said it myself. That time he did everyone a service.

 

There is a chance that the Democrats could really drop the ball on this one. The Democrats will need all of their Senators to line up with them. Joe Manchan and one other doesn't play ball, they could end with Trump getting to replace Sotomayor. That would flip another justice from liberal to conservative.

 

Ok, I'm going to say it right now. If Sotomayor resigns now, then the next justice appointment will be Republican. Trump will get to personally select the next justice.

Republicans in Congress are fully able to hold up the appointment with legal rangling delaying it till Trump gets in. Then the right will run all three branches of government!

One would think that Democrats in office would be able to see this, and that even if it works, replacing one Democrat with another is a net zero. It's almost like they are in on it, but no they are just stupid.

 

Ok, how MAY it not be legal? Can you walk us through your logic?

 

Ethics are for losers. If it’s not illegal it’s fine.

 

Exactly! Despite the fact that Scalia had been dead for over a year, Obama didn't try to cram the appointment of his nominee. Maybe because we still didn't know that Trump was an even bigger jerk than McConnell.

Democrats need to STOP taking the high road. In this day and age, waiting until Republicans are first to take an immoral action before Democrats do the same was once something that attracted ethical people to the Democratic party. But now we are starting to realize that it's bad for the country.

I HOPE that democrats have learned this lesson. But I doubt it! As I have been saying in many threads since Tuesday: the strategy "when they go low, we go high" doesn't work anymore.

Are you dodging the question? In what way MAY it be illegal?

 

It is beyond comical that he’s making ethics argument in regard to our politicians.

 

The Repubs will never confirm anyone Biden would nominate anyway so it’s a moot point.

 

It looks like they either think Reps will be in power for a long time or that she won't live long.

 

I have no issue with this. It's politics. Both sides play it. If she does, then she does.

 

They won't be getting anything but the extension of one radical leftist. Meanwhile there is a real possibility that she will be blocked and that Trump will pick two

 

Projection so thick you could cut it with a dull ax

 

Welcome to the political landscape where norms are no longer respected. The Dems are finally deciding to follow the Reps down into the mud.

 

It's almost like elections have consequences.

Now we will really be following Democrats down into the mud if we start weaponizing the justice system

 

I see their point since she is a reliable liberal. Sotomeyer was IMO a bonehead justice. Trump could potentially appoint two more conservatives. Three if she kept going and then keeled over. She will probably be de fenestrated in some way like the rulers did to Biden.

 

So long as they do it before a new congress is seated they don’t need them