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forest444

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1. And what accounts for that "40% vacancy" in the Supreme Court?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Dec 18, 2015, 08:01 PM

Dec 2015

Senate filibusters by minority parties of former President Cristina Kirchner's Supreme Court nominee Roberto Carlés - a nominee that had received across-the-board support when he was first nominated a year ago.

The second "vacancy" was created by a 97-year old Supreme Court Justice (Carlos Fayt) who was blind as a bat and by all accounts senile - but refused to step down until his fellow right-winger, Mauricio Macri, took office.

Has Mitch McCocaine been giving the Argentine right lessons in congressional obstruction tactics?

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Dispatches: Argentina�s Supreme Court Appointments [View all] Judi Lynn Dec 2015 OP

And what accounts for that "40% vacancy" in the Supreme Court? forest444 Dec 2015 #1

Have no doubt at all the evil schemes which have been playing out in our own Congress Judi Lynn Dec 2015 #2

Thanks. That answers my first question. Ghost Dog Dec 2015 #3