Let's do the Supreme Court Nominee Math....
The Senate can confirm a nominee with a simple majority vote.
The Republicans have 53 senators and the Democrats and Independents have 47 senators.
Three Republican senators are positive for Covid 19...Tillis, Lee, and Johnson. If these 3 can't vote because they are sick, the Republicans will only have 50 senate votes.
Now if Murcowski and Collins vote with the Democrats, as they promised, the vote will be 49 to 48 against the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
What do you think????
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Lilu59
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Oct 4, 2020
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I remember Earl Warren was a very Conservative Republican Governor of California, but when he got on the Supreme Court he became a Liberal. A similar circumstance with Souter. My hope is that Gorsuch and Roberts swing the court to the Liberal point of view.
The Supreme Court Nominee Math differs from the Supreme Court Opinion Math.
Has anyone noted how often 5-to-4 opinions on a subject remain 5-to-4 on that subject even when a conservative is confirmed after the retirement or death of a liberal justice?
For instance, Chief Justice John Roberts, for years one of the four conservatives, surprised many a few years ago when he became one of the five who saved the Affordable Care Act. Some observers said his concern for the Court’s legacy explains his switch from conservative to liberal.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know Trump is no friend of homosexuals or transgender folk. Yet, Trump’s nominee Neil Gorsuch was one of the five who in June’s Bostock ruling saved those minorities from employment discrimination on the basis of sex. Read Alito’s dissent if you want to see a consrvative’s head explode.
Two others I remember were a conservative O’Connor saving Roe v. Wade, and a conservative Kennedy protecting the First Amendment. I don’t bet money that conservative justices will switch as these two and others have done. I do like their doing it.
yvilletom
Level 8
Oct 4, 2020
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I am not sure being sick can prevent them from voting...Zoom?
AnneWimsey
Level 9
Oct 3, 2020
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If you remember when the house of representatives was voting on the first stimulus bill the Democrats wanted off site voting via Zoom.....the Republicans said NO.....everyone has to vote in the chamber of Congress....
Maybe the virus will do some good for a change.
RoboGraham
Level 8
Oct 3, 2020
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Varn:
Their lord works in mysterious ways..
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