So if Justice Stevens decides to retire after this term, will the Rethugs go for filibuster

[Hawaii Hiker]

Face it, if Justice Stevens decides to retire after this term, the Republicans won't be happy with A.N.Y. nominee President Obama makes unless it's Robert Wacko Bork...

Now that its 59-41, you know they'll at least threaten a filibuster...

This is something to be on the look out for as though the Supreme Court term doesn't end until late June, IF Justice Stevens does retire (and some were speculating that based on him not hiring any clerks for the fall term) an announcement COULD come in April/May?....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/02/justice-stevens-may-retir_n_274827.html

[WeDidIt]

1. Does the sun rise in the East?

Seriously.

These are the Republicans we're talking about.

Anybody left of Alito will be filibustered.

And the Dems will let 'em stand back and do it.

Don't you get it yet?

[Hawaii Hiker]

2. It was my rhetoricial question for the day

That's my fear that the Democrats will cave in what will be an EXTREMELY important nomination....

Orange bang head time, :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[Warren Stupidity]

3. double duh

but have no fear, the Obama administration will start out by offering up a fully compromised choice , pre-negotiating with key repugnants for an acceptably rightwing nominee, who will then be rejected by these same repugnants and joe lieberman as too librul.

[FrenchieCat]

4. Is that what happened last time?

[Hekate]

10. Is that what you think of Sonia Sotomayor?

I don't. I think she's a wise Latina.

Hekate

[donco6]

5. Ya think?

That would be a big, fat HELL YES.

[jefferson_dem]

6. Not sure they could hold their conference of asshats together on a judicial appointment filibuster.

The two Maine ladies, and Lindsey Graham (seriously), might bail on them at that point.

[scheming daemons]

7. I say that Obama nominates the best judge possible and FORCES them to filibuster

Make them do the spectacle.



Everything Obama does from here on out has to be bold.


Put a name out there, and force the Repukes to kill the nomination.

[davidpdx]

8. What I would rather see is that fucktard

Scalia drop dead while having breakfast. He and Thomas represent the most Conservative faction of the court.

[Hekate]

11. Thomas wouldn't know what to do with himself without Scalia, would he? nt

[davidpdx]

13. Thomas would be left beating himself in the corner

Those two are a match made in hell.

Anyone that reads this, pick up the book The Nine by Jeffery Toobin. I highly recommend it. It made me realize what a total ass those two are.

[wisteria]

9. Only if they wan to play partician politics. Obama's picks so far have been left to center.

No one extreme, like Borke who the Republicans tryed to push through.

[totodeinhere]

12. They are not stupid enough to do that.

If they did, then they could be sure that the next time they control the White House the Dems would filibuster their Supreme Court nominations too.

[Cosmocat]

18. Is this post meant to be humorous ...

They could givew a rats tail about what the dems might do the next time ... They will go to the wall on this one, and find some innate talking point that the MSM will carry water on that will rationalize why it will be different if the dems do it ...

[leftynyc]

14. It would create too many campaign ads

Their views on Presidents getting to pick SC judges are all on video. It's the one thing I think the press would actually bury them on.

[TheKentuckian]

15. They'll probably reluctantly play ball on at least the SC

Lieberfool as usual is who I expect to be a real ass with bogus terra concerns.

If Obama pushes his school privatization scheme we'll see PLENTY O' BIPARTISANSHIP there, Jeb and everybody will be on deck for that mess.

[secondwind]

16. Supreme Court nominees usually don't share the same "fate" as legislation. The Republicans

will play ball, and ONLY oppose if the person is outrageously one-sided. They almost never are.

[Hawaii Hiker]

17. I think you make a good point...Also consider

Ailito & Roberts got their up or down vote, so did Thomas & Scalia....Even a radical like Bork got his vote, he just was defeated, hell 6 Republicans voted against confirming Bork incl. John Warner (R-VA)...

I just hope if Stevens does decide to step down after the June term, President Obama does NOT say "Well, let's wait until the Nov. elections are over before i make a selection to replace Justice Stevens"...