I think that sort of naked obstructionism wouldn’t sit well with voters. There couldn’t even be a pretext like there was with Garland if it happened in the first couple of years of the term.
They’ve never been punished for naked obstructionism.
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It wouldn’t sit well with voters, but they’d still tick the Republican box every goddamn election.
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While I agree with the sentiment there’s clearly a difference between blocking one person and completely reforming it. It’s weird the difference between people not liking change and gravitating toward the change political candidate at the same time.
he’s so dumb not to realize california or NY even can easily be broken into a D and R state instead of trying to figure out how to not fuck that up for texas/florida.
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100% agree with dlk9s that Republicans will never seat a Dem Justice. All the empirical evidence of the past 4 years backs this up. You think public opinion is going to stop them? They passed a tax bill that was like 50 points underwater in public opinion. They are currently breaking their word on a very clear precedent that they just set. Like, the head of the judiciary committee literally said, “you can hold the tape”, and now he’s justifying it with things that happened before he said that.
That’s way harder to defend that whatever excuse they will come up with next time, e.g. “well we just got the Senate back in the 2022 midterms because the American people wanted us to be a check on Biden, and we will fulfill that Constitutional duty”.
Things change, but LOL if you think a GOP-led Senate would confirm a Biden nominee in 2021.
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Yeah, I think this is 100% true. And it’s a really smart move on the GOP’s part. We’ll give their nominees a fair shake and they will refuse all of ours. That’s a huge win for them and we’re too dumb to ever figure it out.
https://mobile.twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1308471894992130050
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Chrisk0909/status/1308472900379463684
That’ll show em!
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NOTHING OFF THE TABLE
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Well, we think he’s dumb but recent historical trends would suggest that Rs will break Texas up into 30 states and Ds will tut-tut them but refuse to break up California or NY because that would be unseemly. Makes you wonder who the stupid ones are.
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Can DC be made a state by legislation like normal, or does its need a constitutional amendment since its status is specified by the constitution?
The current statehood bill operates by carving out a small sliver of DC to remain as the federal district (the area that includes The Mall and most Federal Buildings), while making a new state out of the area where basically all of the residents actually live. So it’s designed sidestep potential constitutional issues b/c you can claim that the area with the federal buildings meets the constitutional requirement.
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And they’ve been severely punished by their own base for anything remotely resembling compromise.
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GOP SCOTUS, soon:
Doesn’t matter have six
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I liked this op-ed, seems like a good approach