Justice Thomas illness reported
Justice Clarence Thomas has missed the first day of the new SCOTUS session, it is reported.
This is not good news. I hope it’s nothing serious.
But the reality is that every single SCOTUS nomination has now become fraught with vicious politics and peril. There is no doubt in my mind that if Trump were to get the opportunity to nominate a new SCOTUS justice, the Democrats would shriek that because of Garland he doesn’t get the chance, pending the 2020 election.
This would be bunk. The GOP was able to do what they did with Garland for the simple reason that they controlled the Senate at the time, and it is the Senate that is given the power to approve the SCOTUS justices whom the executive appoints. No Senate approval, and the judge cannot be seated. The Garland nomination also occurred close to the end of Obama’s second and therefore last term, so that was given as an additional reason it was okay to wait. But that was actually somewhat irrelevant, because if the Republicans hadn’t been in charge, the postponement would not have happened. That sort of situation would ordinarily only arise with a president of one party and a Senate controlled by the other party.
For now, the Republicans are still in charge, and there is a Republican president as well. So the Democrats could shriek all they want, but to no avail for several reasons. The first is that there is no principle that a president cannot successfully nominate and have approved a SCOTUS justice towards the end of that president’s term (his first term, in this instance, so he might even be serving a second, although the Democrats cannot even contemplate the thought). The Garland action did not establish such a principle. The second is that a postponement of that type cannot be forced by the minority party in Congress. The third is that you, I, and the Democrats all know that if they were in charge and Trump got a SCOTUS pick they would never approve anyone on the right. In addition, they would delay a la Garland if they needed to and their usual character assassination m.o. didn’t work.
If a conservative justice resigns the democrats will be mean and vicious and hateful, of course, business as usual. If it’s a liberal (Ruth) it’s going to be scorched earth tactics, every smear they can come up with or invent.
I’d wager the flu, but who knows?
I hope Justice Thomas is back in action soon.
The Dems would say Trump can’t appoint a replacement for and SC judge since he is going to be impeached.
Justice Thomas has been a great judge; hope he’ll be fit to go back.
The Dems will be even meaner, more vicious, but likely a bit smarter in their lies; I fear they will have multiple liars who agree on the lie.
Against whoever Trump nominates.
Only when the voters are truly tired of the Dem lies, and vote Rep so much that there’s a Republican domination of Pres, House, & Senate, will there come a time when sanity returns to the Dems.
Or, they win in 2020 and we jump towards Venezuela disaster.
But Republicans are never again going to be the same kind of good losers we’ve been in the past. At least, those voting in the next year’s election are unlikely to be.
The rot is spreading fast from the fertile ground of entitled college grads, who didn’t learn much but got the degree, yet not quite the middle class easy life they were expecting. Plus more debt than expected — since so many are so financially illiterate, listening far too much to socialists complaining about the rich rather than get rich slowly folk explaining how to advance, slowly.
The polarization keeps getting worse until colleges hire more Rep professors. And even after that, it will take years, maybe decades, to flush most of the socialist delusions out of the minds of those heavily indoctrinated.
Will RBG be like Lenin?
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SCOTUS released information that Justice Thomas has “flu-like” symptoms.
Ginni, his wife, will take care of him. Ginni is a wonderful woman and loving wife.
@artfldodger I worry more that RBG will be like Franco, and surrounded by Disney animatronics engineers.
Do not think the DS is above poison and bio warfare. Although this season is particularly noted by the cosmological charts to be strained by disease. Low vibrations.