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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 10:39 PM Jan 2022

Both Sides Don't Make Up Rules For SCOTUS Nominations



Both Sides Don't Make Up Rules For SCOTUS Nominations
What if... we followed Republicans' rules for appointing Supreme Court justices?
By Christopher Reeves — January 31, 2022

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Republicans do not care and do not pay a price

Mitch McConnell can say whatever he wants about the filibuster, about the Supreme Court, about legislation—and then immediately throw it away as soon as he sees the need to do so. The Republican base will never, at any point, call him out for his hypocrisy. They won’t do it, because they believe at their core that this is the cost that must be paid in order to bring their ideas forward. If that requires subverting the process, they are more than willing to do it. So be it.

On the Democratic side, we have a tendency to wring our hands and talk about process and procedure, or fear our own base will have problems with our decisions. Without mountains of data, I will say I firmly believe that the impact of a slow supreme court hearing process will not in any way help the Democratic cause. It only gives Democratic candidates a case to make that President Biden continues to work on fulfilling his promises to place a well-respected woman on the court, to work on the infrastructure plan which was passed, to highlight that #DemocratsDeliver, a hashtag used by many candidates this year.

Part of what that delivery has to include is the nomination and placement of a Supreme Court justice.

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Both Sides Don't Make Up Rules For SCOTUS Nominations (Original Post) babylonsister Jan 2022 OP
Wording quibble: OP headline is false. One of them does. Not true that "Both sides don't". Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2022 #1
Thanks for posting. RepubliCON hypocrisy is part of the con game and needs to be called out. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2022 #2

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
1. Wording quibble: OP headline is false. One of them does. Not true that "Both sides don't".
Mon Jan 31, 2022, 11:13 PM
Jan 2022

I suggest:

Not Both Sides Make Up Rules

or

Saying Both Sides Make Up Rules is a Lie

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