My SCOTUS litmus test.
hay rick
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:06 AM
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Zero Republican confirmation votes. Just sayin'...
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| TheWraith
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:15 AM
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| 1. If there are zero Republican votes, nobody gets confirmed. |
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Fillibuster. We need at least one of them for cloture.
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| blondeatlast
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:19 AM
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| 2. Yup--and in my ideal SCOTUS there is no politics. |
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As I said in another thread, justice has an inherent liberal bias anyway; that's why he (a self-identified Republican, IIRC) was such a great justice.
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Sun Apr-11-10 09:36 AM
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| 3. If a nominees background is that unpalatable... |
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that they would fail to get even one Repub vote... then the odds are pretty good that they'd
also fail in getting the votes of a few Blue Dogs as well.
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