ColonelAngus
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A little history lesson to put all of this in context:
Democrats unfairly ripped Reagan SCOTUS nominee Robert Bork. Painted him as a racist and every other awful thing in the book. They asked him specific questions and he gave specific answers. As always, the Dems mischaracterized his answers.
Ted Kennedy claimed:
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy ... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.
So....Republicans say...fine, when Clinton nominated Ginsburg, we are going to go after her just as hard.....BUT WAIT! BIDEN AND GINSBURG come up with the GINSBURG RULE...RBG wont give any specifics about any subject in which a case may eventually come to the court, so she was able to dodge hypotheticals.
SHE WAS STILL CONFIRMED 97-3.
NOW.....These same Dems want Barrett to break THEIR FUCKING RULE...and call her uncooperative for invoking the GINSBURG RULE. The irony is that Barrett is replacing Ginsburg.
IF DIMS DONT LIKE THE WAY THE GAME IS GOING, THEY JUST CHANGE THE RULES. SHAMELESS.
Barrett is going to be confirmed and she is going to crush it in SCOTUS.
Democrats unfairly ripped Reagan SCOTUS nominee Robert Bork. Painted him as a racist and every other awful thing in the book. They asked him specific questions and he gave specific answers. As always, the Dems mischaracterized his answers.
Ted Kennedy claimed:
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the Government, and the doors of the Federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is—and is often the only—protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy ... President Reagan is still our president. But he should not be able to reach out from the muck of Irangate, reach into the muck of Watergate and impose his reactionary vision of the Constitution on the Supreme Court and the next generation of Americans. No justice would be better than this injustice.
So....Republicans say...fine, when Clinton nominated Ginsburg, we are going to go after her just as hard.....BUT WAIT! BIDEN AND GINSBURG come up with the GINSBURG RULE...RBG wont give any specifics about any subject in which a case may eventually come to the court, so she was able to dodge hypotheticals.
SHE WAS STILL CONFIRMED 97-3.
NOW.....These same Dems want Barrett to break THEIR FUCKING RULE...and call her uncooperative for invoking the GINSBURG RULE. The irony is that Barrett is replacing Ginsburg.
IF DIMS DONT LIKE THE WAY THE GAME IS GOING, THEY JUST CHANGE THE RULES. SHAMELESS.
Barrett is going to be confirmed and she is going to crush it in SCOTUS.