I can't take anymore bad news.

We're through.

This breaks me.

I think I am going to throw up.

This is horrible.

I really have to laugh in a way. I am at the end of life and see that people really haven't gotten any smarter in regard to politics. Millions couldn't be bothered to get informed let alone get off the ass vote. So this is what they get and they deserve. Sorry that those who are not in the Malania camp and really do care are going to suffer. The only thing that personally affects me is the grand kids and just what kind of future they will have. Right now I wouldn't trade the life that I enjoyed for theirs.

We're entitled to every delay tactic McConnell did muster.

The next Congress should get to choose, so the voters can weigh in

and McConnell will do whatever the fuck he wants.

This is an opportunity for these three to stand up for democracy and not allow Trump to put another right-wing extremist on the SC. If only two of them side with Democrats, ny appointment could be delayed at least until after the November election.

and therefore there are 10 possibly vulnerable democratic senators, some of whom will be compelled to confirm whoever the Rump nominates.

I hope purity left leaners are happy.

For the rest of my life, we are so screwed.

Damn. Hoped this wouldn’t happen.

The second Putin stole the election for Cheeto, I knew Tony the Two-Timer would find an excuse to retire.

Get ready for fascist theocracy, folks.

single third party voter with a fucking brick. Susan Sarandon should be tar and feathered. I am filled with hatred.

I'll never forgive that turd or those who voted for him either. They're slack jawed imbeciles.

just fuck

Now she's way beyond that and she's 4 years older than Kennedy. Regardless of who is President, she is fast running out of time.

... in not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.

We need to win in 2020.

But then again, they are about to get the 5th vote that they need. This is why the FBI and State Department Inspector General's Office were willing to abuse their power in order to destroy the Democratic nominee.

She's fought cancer several times, including pancreatic cancer.

Assuming Kennedy is replaced with a RW zealot, I would actually expect her to quit because her job satisfaction being on the losing side everyday would be quite low.

I don't care how much she may think her job sucks, she better hang on until it is out of the White House. It's what she signed on for when she decided not to retire under Obama.

pass laws to shrink the USSC down to the size where it can
be drown in a bathtub. Goodridance to this anti-democratic
institution.

and the two that leave are the ones with the least seniority, assuming Ginsburg hasn't retired before taking back the Congress and Executive.

... and it's gone viral.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/photo-85-year-old-ruth-bader-ginsburg-planking-going-viral-justice-kennedys-scotus-retirement-news-123751787.html

Hates Trump so much, he will stall any nomination.

Pretty much the only hope; bluntly, Justice Ginsburg is not well and is hanging by a thread. Kennedy was a mushy moderate.

If he is replaced and Justice Ginsburg becomes ill or dies, the Supreme Court is lost for 30 years.

n/t

But he holds the swing vote on the judiciary committee and is currently stalling nominations.

Note, I am not REMOTELY saying I am like him.

Just and enemy of our bigger enemy.

Lotsa luck.

Need two GOP Senators. Only if McCain is too sick to vote, then one would do.

Flake is the swing vote in the judiciary committee.

Enemy of our enemy . . . .

He would basically be treated like Cersei Lannister in the Walk of Shame by every "conservative" in the country for the rest of his life.

Ain't no republican has the spine to withhold what would happen to them for doing this.

Putin.

Back to monarchy we go

O-V-E-R.

Is there a word that describes being beyond fucked?

God, I feel sick.

It’s gone. All that’s left is a rotting corpse of a country. I give up.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.

Either way, goodbye United States of America. Hello Kingdom of Trumpian America. Self-deliverance in the Final Exit sense is looking better and better to me every day.

i hope youre not serious

The sky was already falling. Now the skies on top of the sky are falling.

It may be our only hope at this point.

It's too early in the Dotard admin for Dems to stall a nomination until we have a new president. We're in trouble. We thought Gorsuck is bad. They'll nominate someone horrific.

Mitch fixed that with the way he handled the Gorsuch nomination. He can shove through whoever he wants. The only way is for TWO Republican senators to balk. And that won't happen.

but we wont get that either

Jeff Flake was making noises about stopping any more judicial nominees until the Congress took up tariffs, but he said this morning that he won't hold up a SC nominee. Susan Collins is a fool. Lisa Murikowski is possible. Rachel talked about her possibly not wanting to be the person whose vote eliminated Roe. We shall see.

the new justice will be confirmed well ahead of november elections. GOP turnout will beat all records.

Elections have consequences. American democracy is effectively dead. We're now a semi-theocratic right-wing oligarchy with a figurehead idiot fascist "in charge."

But her emails.

Time to evaluate foreign retirement communities for this cowboy

300,000 years isn't bad.

a twofer? This election season could prove to be raucous.

He's PROUD of what he did to Merrick Garland.

GOP controls the nomination and confirmation process until 2019 at the earliest. Dems could play turtles words 24/7 in the Senate chambers and they will be ignored. GOP midterm turnout just got a huge spike, whether they replace Kennedy before or not.

We're in big trouble, my friends.

......or they are still hungover from turning a deep blue district a shade bluer, but they clearly don't give a fuck over there at Jackass Radicals. Hell, we know a few of the double agents are cheering.

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"The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet—in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler—the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag." - Wikipedia

Or, since Shine may be the new propaganda minister, some fake news terror threat like MS-13

But hey, all those thousands of Stein voters had to maintain their purity.

for every single one of them.

yet................ there is a chance for a justice to be selected that goes his/her own way. It's been known to happen. I do agree the odds aren't very good though.

It's not Donnie making these choices.

We are fully screwed.

Trump can open the seat up to the highest bidder, provided they are white, conservative, straight, and male.

add 4 new liberal judges,bringing the court to 13 members.

legally they could do it.

either way I think we are on the way to civil war

I don’t think this is doable.

He'll forever be listed on the wrong side of history.

damn

There go women's rights to chose. There goes gay marriage!

He's not going to wait for a Democratic administration.

It's the end of the liberal Era that started in the 60s.
The US will be a Trumpian conservative country for the rest of our lives.

History might actually proclaim Trump as one of our greatest presidents because the victors write the history.

goodbye human rights, hello global warming.

*sarcasm*

America will become a right wing fascist state that answers to Russia.
This has been years in the works too 3 stolen Presidential elections in
16 years, 3 people who should not be on the S. Court .... Roberts FL 2000,
Alito OH 2004, and Gorsuch .... Russia working with the right wing, Fox
News, and so much more.

Mueller can come in w/pictures of Trump smiling as the Russians were hacking
our elections w/GOP help but the SCOTUS will block anything being done
about it.

Although I suspect the GOP would not have allowed her Supreme court nominations, at least it would be 4-4.

As the US slides into the abyss.

Any elected Democratic Party that confirms this appointment, no matter who it is, absolutely needs to be chased from the Party. I don't give a flying f*ck how red your district may be.

So you're willing to lose this appointment AND end up with 2-4 more Republican senators - so that when he gets to replace Ginsburg or Breyer we can't stop it by convincing a couple moderate Republicans that it's a bridge too far?

How members of the Judiciary Committee treat this vacancy is a different question.

It's certainly how many of us FEEL... it just isn't politically the right decision in all cases.

Those few in red states up for grabs in November need to stay as far away from a microphone as possible until we figure out whether we can flip a couple moderate Republicans. They need to hold fast until we're certain that we can't win... then they can be let off the leash if it might make the difference in November.

and the only way to stop this BS is to get people into office and have Congress being in control by democrats basically tell the supreme court we are going to pass laws that you cannot block and that you cannot rule under from Article 3 Section 2 paragraph 1 and 2. Congress can pass laws that say that, hey supreme court not this time.................you have no jurisdiction................

This is why we need to get out and vote......................the courts matter, and ever since Reagan that have been made into a right wing agenda following the Louis Powell doctrine......................that is a fact...............





November 2018 cannot get here fast enough...........................get out and vote

Kennedy is one of the worse because he pretends to be human, where Thomas, Alito and Gorsuch have no such pretensions, they are just vile through and through and don't care if we know. They all deserve really bad things happening to them.

History has a way of overthrowing itself. There are a few possible positive scenarios: to energize the midterms (For the left it's do or die), Roberts may move towards Kennedy's position (conservatives already think he's squishy, e.g. ObamaCare), conservatives in Senate may move center (e.g. Romney), Court since Bush v. Gore is now so obviously politicized, it just may be ignored (do they really want to send an army to shut down Planned Parenthood?). As we saw this week, when the dam is broken, they have no idea of the flood they will be up against.

Moderate compared to the other four, but still more likely to want to be replaced by Republicans than by Democrats.

May his decision to hand the appointment of another JSCOTUS to that fucking shitgibbon repeat over and over again in his head as he loses control of his bodily functions, deteriorates, hurts beyond hurt, and Still. Can't. Die. Fuck him.