Harvard Law Prof Calls Sen. Mitch McConnell a 'Flagrant Dickhead'

[Mr. Sparkle]

Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Laurence Tribe was evidently not pleased to see Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) promise this week to fill a Supreme Court vacancy in 2020, if that opportunity were to present itself.

McConnell never allowed former President Barack Obama‘s Supreme Court nominee D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals chief judge Merrick Garland to get a hearing in 2016, citing the closeness to the election. In response to his latest remarks, Democratic opponents promptly called out McConnell for “hypocrisy” and accused him “stealing” a Supreme Court seat.

Prof. Tribe’s reaction to the McConnell news went a little further than mere accusations of hypocrisy and Supreme Court theft. He said “McTurtle’s” middle, first and last names are “hypocrisy.”

“What a flagrant dickhead!” he added.

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https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/harvard-law-prof-calls-sen-mitch-mcconnell-a-flagrant-dickhead/

[dem4decades]

1. You don't have work at Harvard to know Mitch is a dickhead.

[Botany]

2. Mitch is law onto himself

Un-American piece of crap.

[SallyHemmings]

3. McConnell doesn't care

We have to take the Senate in 2020.

[lastlib]

4. I tend to think of him as foreskin.....

Not big enough to be a full dick.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. I figured there was a legal term for it

Probably doesn't pack the same punch in the original Latin.

[Yonnie3]

6. I need more coffee!

I first parsed that as Fragrant Dickhead. There isn't a sweet smell associated with The Turtle.

[Kurt V.]

7. makes the case to add seats to the SC. Normally i wouldn't be for that.

these aren't normal times.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. The Gravedigger of American Democracy

“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell. He stoked the hyperpolarization of American politics to make the Obama presidency as dysfunctional and paralyzed as he possibly could. As with parliamentary gridlock in Weimar, congressional gridlock in the US has diminished respect for democratic norms, allowing McConnell to trample them even more. Nowhere is this vicious circle clearer than in the obliteration of traditional precedents concerning judicial appointments. Systematic obstruction of nominations in Obama’s first term provoked Democrats to scrap the filibuster for all but Supreme Court nominations. Then McConnell’s unprecedented blocking of the Merrick Garland nomination required him in turn to scrap the filibuster for Supreme Court nominations in order to complete the “steal” of Antonin Scalia’s seat and confirm Neil Gorsuch. The extreme politicization of the judicial nomination process is once again on display in the current Kavanaugh hearings.“

Source:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/10/25/suffocation-of-democracy/

[NewJeffCT]

9. Tribe is arguably the leading Constitutional law scholar in the nation

Glad to get his opinion

[MarcoZandrini]

10. You can help...

... unelect Mitch by contributing to ditchmitchfund.com. I have.

[smirkymonkey]

16. I have donated as well.

I hope we have some impact. I want him gone as much if not more than I want Trump gone. I hate that motherfucker with a passion.

[JudyM]

11. Hypocrisy is a tame descriptor for him. He is a traitor.

[iscooterliberally]

12. Who is the Democrat running against McConnell in 2020?

Isn't he up for reelection? I don't live in KY, and I don't have much money, but I would love to make a small donation. Even if we don't win the senate should try really really hard to get rid of McConnell.

[dalton99a]

13. McConnell is a traitor to the United States.

[pdsimdars]

14. Guess he didn't take the same course on "nuance" that Mueller did, i.e. he is clear.

[Sherman A1]

15. I must disagree with the Esteemed Professor

Mitch McConnell would have to improve by several magnitudes to reach that level.