Big news day

First the Senate Republicans, as promised, destroyed years of Senate traditions in order to place another conservative vote onto the Supreme Court, a long-term goal of theirs. It started with Bush v. Gore, when five conservative justices abruptly halted the recount of Florida’s ballots in the 2000 election and made George W. Bush president. [snip] …

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Gorsuch is a radical

The narrative about Democrats’ opposition to Judge Gorsuch’s appointment to the Supreme Court is simple: it’s payback for the Republicans’ refusal to even give President Obama’s nominee Merrick Garland a hearing last year on spurious grounds. “No SCOTUS appointments in the last year of a President’s term,” they shouted. For reasons I still don’t understand, …

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