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Batten Down the Hatches! Justice Breyer is Retiring!
Would it be “jumping the gun” to predict that all hell is about to break loose? I think not.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire — once a replacement has been confirmed — after serving for nearly three decades on America’s highest court, according to reporting confirmed by NBC News on Wednesday.
The retirement of Breyer — who at 83 is the Supreme Court’s oldest justice — will allow President Biden to nominate a replacement, giving liberals a chance to lock in a reliably liberal justice for decades to come.
President Biden has previously promised that, if given the chance, his first nominee to the Supreme Court would be a black woman. Potential nominees who fit the bill, according to NBC, include “federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, former Breyer law clerk, and Leondra Kruger, a justice on California’s Supreme Court.”
The news sets up a bitter confirmation fight just before the midterm elections in which Democrats are expected to suffer significant losses in Congress. With a currently razor-thin majority in the U.S. Senate, every Democrat will need to be onboard with whomever President Biden nominates. But a Democratic caucus that hasn’t been entirely unified in Biden’s first year in office, means that Senators such as Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) could pose an obstacle to radical nominees.
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Watch they will nominate Obama since he is a “Constitutional Expert” and he has the same handlers as Biden.
Obama being nominated is more likely than either Harris or Hillary.
This whole thing is a nothingburger. Swapping one lib on SCOTUS for another makes no difference.
I do believe that Pelosi will become VP automatically as a matter of process if Harris is the pick. The President does not pick a serving VP replacement, that is a matter of succession.
No. When Agnew resigned, Nixon nominated Ford to be the new VP. When Nixon resigned and Ford became POTUS, he nominated Nelson Rockefeller for his VP.
See Amendment 25, Section 2.
I stand corrected. Upon vacancy the President nominates, majority in both houses must approve.
As I understand the jurisprudence, one is entitled to invade the Capitol if the issue is a Supreme Court nomination.
And then there’s this:
https://thepostmillennial.com/liberals-sinema-manchin-supreme-court?utm_campaign=64487
Now, in all likelihood, Sinema would vote for Biden’s pick because she’s a leftist at heart (but one smart enough to know not to get rid of the filibuster). But what about Manchin?
If they want a “woman” then Obama would have to become trans. That might be worth seeing.
Bill was disbarred, but I don’t think Hillary ever was. Although they should both be in prison for various things.
No, no, no. The jurisprudence is that one is entitled to invade the Capitol if the issue is a Supreme Court nomination made by a Republican.
The devil is in the details.
I hope they do it. I really hope they do it. Then we can have July 6th Committees or something, and we can hunt down everyone who came within 100 feet of the Capitol that day, and send them to the DC Gulag, and watch the Democrats have fits.
But she’s as healthy and energetic as a 71-year-old (when she’s not falling down). :)
I suppose I need to use the Joke icon more.
Being a licensed lawyer is not a requirement for a justice of the Supreme Court. Nor is having graduated from or even attended law school.
And so does my hero, Kumala. And she passed the bar, too.
Jen Psaki has said that Biden remains committed to nominating a black woman – so a nominee based on skin color and internal plumbing. So we will likely get a nominee that will be as competent and as successful as his skin color and internal plumbing driven choice for vice president.
I’d be willing to be a trans-Black female to get that gig.
And he qualifies as a trans-woman who is Black, and identifies as differently abled, anti-dexteronormative, and with a positive body image.
Is this so? When Agnew resigned, he was replaced by Ford by presidential nomination, and Senatorial approval, I believe. I’d like to know if anyone knows more accurately, but here’s the wiki explanation.
Obama is fundamentally lazy. Being a justice on the Supreme Court is way too much work.
Doesn’t the staff/clerks do the heavy lifting? He just gets to sit in a big chair, look wise, and decide which clerks’ work to call his own. (Kinda like what he’s done for his whole career…)
Are you referring to Barack or Michelle?
You think Rachel Dolezal has a shot?
Brian referred to “he.”
Also if they want someone trans, it would have to be Barack, since Michelle is (supposedly) already a woman.
I don’t think he can use a Teleprompter.
How often are SCOTUS members – especially “junior” ones – on TV or doing press conferences?
He once had a Teleprompter set up when he talked to a kindergartner class.
I doubt Ms. Harris will be the nominee. Besides the risk of an evenly divided Senate making selection of a new vice president difficult, I hope at least some Democrats will see how horrible was her performance in every job she has had, and especially in her law jobs (district attorney and state attorney general) that even they wouldn’t want to risk putting that level of (non)performance on the Supreme Court. She wouldn’t even be up for the job of running the supreme court cafeteria (one of the jobs assigned to the most junior justice), let alone following the legal arguments before the court. But maybe a Justice Harris would relieve Justice Sotomayor of her position as the dullest justice. There are likely other ways to sideline Harris from running for president.
Sounds like an argument in my favor. How often do SCOTUS members talk to kindergarten classes?
You know who never needed a teleprompter and could easily give a two hour speech without one?
Yeah, . . . the Orange Man.