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Solomon

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40. Yep. The first black president could have done everything a white president could do.

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Sun Jun 26, 2022, 11:04 AM

Jun 2022

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We should have raised holy hell about Garland. [View all] Jeebo Jun 2022 OP

yeppers. this is another major misstep on our part. msfiddlestix Jun 2022 #1

NO SHIT Skittles Jun 2022 #2

"We" didn't want to FBaggins Jun 2022 #3

I was certain Trump wouldn't make it through the primaries In It to Win It Jun 2022 #35

Gore. d_b Jun 2022 #4

I think it was Glenn Kirschner who suggested this recently MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #5

Obama wasn't about to make such a frivolous argument. onenote Jun 2022 #11

What exactly is frivolous? A former Assistant US Attorney suggested it MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #14

Kirschner is not a constitutional expert. And he's mocked for mis-stating basic legal principles onenote Jun 2022 #15

President Obama potentially COULD have made a recess apointment of Garland on January 3, 2017 MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #23

It is a frivolous argument onenote Jun 2022 #43

Risky? Definitely. Frivolous, not at all. MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #44

No... it's frivolous FBaggins Jun 2022 #45

You are citing possible dicta from the Canning case as controlling on the length of the recess MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #46

and would it be worth giving up a DC Circuit seat to Trump? onenote Jun 2022 #53

Sorry... that's wild spin FBaggins Jun 2022 #54

YES! mobeau69 Jun 2022 #6

I did. I remembered begging for President Obama to Funtatlaguy Jun 2022 #7

Obama could have recess-appointed Garland. FoxNewsSucks Jun 2022 #8

No he couldn't. That would require a recess. And the Republicans controlled the Senate. onenote Jun 2022 #12

People choose to forget what they didn't already understand. nt Samrob Jun 2022 #16

There was a indeed a recess on January 3, 2017 between the old and new Congress MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #24

President Obama didn't mention Garland once in his speech at the 2016 convention BeyondGeography Jun 2022 #9

I heard that she was going to retire. Jeebo Jun 2022 #10

To be honest BeyondGeography Jun 2022 #21

So I take it you wanted Obama to publicly shame RBG? onenote Jun 2022 #13

You know what's really sad? BeyondGeography Jun 2022 #22

I too have issues with how President Obama handled this MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #26

There was never going to be a vote BeyondGeography Jun 2022 #36

Given we were under an electronic invasion by Russia, I don't think it would have MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #37

Go ahead and tell us all the other shit Obama didn't do right. Solomon Jun 2022 #27

Oh, like the first thing I'm going to do is codify Roe? BeyondGeography Jun 2022 #34

Yep. The first black president could have done everything a white president could do. Solomon Jun 2022 #40

We did. There was nothing further that could have been done Amishman Jun 2022 #17

This is absolute nonsense. There is nothing President Obama could have done differently that tritsofme Jun 2022 #18

Not sure agree. See post 23 (mine) nt MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #28

You keep jumping between so many fringe legal fantasies here, it's hard to keep up. tritsofme Jun 2022 #47

Thanks for your analysis (or lack of it) and ad hominem attack MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #48

I hadn't realized you shifted from "just pretend they're confirmed" to some recess appointment tritsofme Jun 2022 #50

I haven't "shifted" one bit. A recess appointment is consistently what I mentioned in my posts here MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #55

Garland's seat on the DC Circuit only would have been lost if he participated in a gimmicky tritsofme Jun 2022 #56

Post removed Post removed Jun 2022 #19

You forget that our Constitution is dumb as fuck. maxsolomon Jun 2022 #20

"Obama had just gone ahead and told Garland to take his seat. " brooklynite Jun 2022 #25

A recess appointment on January 3, 2017 was possible. MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #29

No, it was not. brooklynite Jun 2022 #31

You can't hold a pro forma session between TWO different Congresses, can you? MerryHolidays Jun 2022 #33

The Senate doesn't have a different Congress. brooklynite Jun 2022 #41

I was livid, mostly at Moscow Bitch Sugarcoated Jun 2022 #30

What would that do ? People need to vote for Democrats JI7 Jun 2022 #32

No, because Americans blame both sides for dysfunction in politics. betsuni Jun 2022 #38

We did Patton French Jun 2022 #39

A Democratic president would never do that, we're the "lets all try and get along party" Mr. Sparkle Jun 2022 #42

This post should be removed. we can do it Jun 2022 #49

We did raise holy hell. Where were you? Novara Jun 2022 #51

We did and we were informed not to threaten them with the courts...for Christ sake. Demsrule86 Jun 2022 #52