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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: President Obama going with Merrick Garland for SCOTUS [View all]Autumn
(45,037 posts)65. We all know how important supreme court picks are. An older moderate is just the ticket.
Should be able to get this one past the pukes.
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I trust him to do what he wants, which in this case is to appoint a corporatist judge, which
GoneFishin
Mar 2016
#127
Wow. You totally convinced me with your condescending tone. Oh, wait, no you didn't.
GoneFishin
Mar 2016
#129
Unless it cites all of the times that Obama's elevendy dimensional chess moves required him to move
GoneFishin
Mar 2016
#133
Boring would have been the Senate judiciary committee not even having hearings let alone a vote...
stevenleser
Mar 2016
#30
I'm a bit surprised at that. I thought he'd nominate the person that was confirmed 97-0.
PoliticAverse
Mar 2016
#2
We can do it if we all focus on downticket races and not stay home because our preferred Prez....
Hekate
Mar 2016
#83
Ugh. Disgusting. I hope Republicans block him, and we can actually get a liberal instead. eom
Meldread
Mar 2016
#6
When people don't trust their govt don't you think their support of the 2nd amendment increases?
Skwmom
Mar 2016
#9
Harvard and Yale grads have assigned themselves the titles of "The Most Qualified"
AngryAmish
Mar 2016
#106
If Obama's going to nominate moderates in their mid-60s, I'd call that bluff
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
Mar 2016
#29
What would be worse is if, in the event of a Democratic victory in November,
truebluegreen
Mar 2016
#119
If the President has nominated Mitch McConnell do you think the senate would have voted him down? nt
PoliticAverse
Mar 2016
#89
Wow, are you saying Obama consulted the Senate? He has to submit his nominee for that part.
L. Coyote
Mar 2016
#112
We all know how important supreme court picks are. An older moderate is just the ticket.
Autumn
Mar 2016
#65
Obama is going to make those bastards squirm, isn't he? This is a good jurist...
Hekate
Mar 2016
#84
A lawyer forty years, a judge twenty years, experience in government, with some teaching
struggle4progress
Mar 2016
#92