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Originally Posted by RFlushDiamonds
God forbid she die before the election but you don't honestly think there's any question that they push the most conservative hack through if she does, do you ?
I hope to God she hangs on, but I think there is an excellent chance that RBG will die before the election. People her age can go downhill amazingly quickly. Even if RBG dies tomorrow, there is a process to appointing and confirming justices that simply cannot be completed in an orderly way before the election. Put another way, there is no way for McConnell to get another justice confirmed before the next president takes office unless he bends the rules and flouts norms.
But in response to your question, I am on record in this thread as saying that I have zero faith in McConnell. He is a terrible person. Bending rules and flouting norms are what he is all about. There is nothing that I would put past him.
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The court can't really be diminished anymore at this point, can it ?
You must be joking. The SCOTUS (and the entire federal judiciary) can and will get much, much, much worse if Trump is reelected.
The only people who believe otherwise are (i) Republicans; and (ii) progressives who are trying to justify to themselves why it is OK to not vote in 2020.
Also, I don't think you could find a single Democrat with a law degree, no matter how progressive his or her politics were, who thinks that a Trump reelection would be anything less than a disaster for the entire federal judiciary.
Last edited by Rococo; 07-17-2020 at 03:15 PM.