Land of The Free: American Political Roleplay (OOC IV)

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

So Ginsburg just died

The election has is gonna change

[The Orion Islands]

I've got a feeling that Roe V. Wade is in it's last days. Trump will probably appoint someone who will end it.

[Kargintina the Third]

Political differences aside, it is very tragic for someone to die especially someone with so much time serving our nation in office. May she rip.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

I have a personal conspiracy theory that Trump was born under the luckiest star in the world.

[Dentali]

I have a personal conspiracy theory that Trump was born under the luckiest star in the world.

amen

[Kargintina the Third]

Collins, Murkowski and Romney may vote against and require tiebreaker but who would be fourth defection?

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Collins, Murkowski and Romney may vote against and require tiebreaker but who would be fourth defection?

Romney ain’t breaking ranks on this one

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Collins, Murkowski and Romney may vote against and require tiebreaker but who would be fourth defection?

Romney ain’t breaking ranks on this one

If Republicans ram somebody through they will find the votes

[Kargintina the Third]

Romney ain’t breaking ranks on this one

If Republicans ram somebody through they will find the votes

I suppose if the issue of abortion is on the line Romney might vote in favor

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

If Republicans ram somebody through they will find the votes

I suppose if the issue of abortion is on the line Romney might vote in favor

If Romney doesn’t want to become a pariah even to Mormons he will vote yes.

That leaves Murkowski, and maybe Collins, with Gardner being a massive stretch

50-50 best case scenario for the Dems

[Sarenium]

Romney is an institutionalist, and someone who wants to save the Republican Party. He can't save a party this hypocritical, I think he'd join Murkowski and Collins, by that regard.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Romney is an institutionalist, and someone who wants to save the Republican Party. He can't save a party this hypocritical, I think he'd join Murkowski and Collins, by that regard.

Romney is a politician first and foremost he isn’t committing political suicide over this

[New Cobastheia]

I suppose if the issue of abortion is on the line Romney might vote in favor

If Romney doesn’t want to become a pariah even to Mormons he will vote yes.

That leaves Murkowski, and maybe Collins, with Gardner being a massive stretch

50-50 best case scenario for the Dems

I have a hard time thinking Pence wouldn't vote for whoever gets nominated, especially if it's someone like like Barett

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[Kargintina the Third]

McConnell just confirmed Trump’s replacement is getting a senate vote

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

McConnell just confirmed Trump’s replacement is getting a senate vote

I think this is the end of the liberal activist SCOTUS for better or for worse. 3/9 conservative judges are gonna be a generation away from retirement. 6-3 conservative majority for the foreseeable future, maybe 5-4 after Thomas passes.

[Kargintina the Third]

McConnell just confirmed Trump’s replacement is getting a senate vote

I think this is the end of the liberal activist SCOTUS for better or for worse. 3/9 conservative judges are gonna be a generation away from retirement. 6-3 conservative majority for the foreseeable future, maybe 5-4 after Thomas passes.

Unless Dems win and decide to pack the court.

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

I think this is the end of the liberal activist SCOTUS for better or for worse. 3/9 conservative judges are gonna be a generation away from retirement. 6-3 conservative majority for the foreseeable future, maybe 5-4 after Thomas passes.

Unless Dems win and decide to pack the court.

If Dems pack the court then Scotus may as well be obsolete

[New Cobastheia]

Unless Dems win and decide to pack the court.

If Dems pack the court then Scotus may as well be obsolete

Honestly, I'm not completely sure if I'd care if the Supreme Court went obsolete at this point

And I doubt Biden would pack them anyways

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

If Dems pack the court then Scotus may as well be obsolete

Honestly, I'm not completely sure if I'd care if the Supreme Court went obsolete at this point

And I doubt Biden would pack them anyways

Biden is Biden he isn’t gonna do that, Kamala might

[Kargintina the Third]

If the GOP gets the court they can obliterate any of Biden’s legislature and cry lame duck and retake Senate in 2022 and potus in 2024

[Democratic Peoples republic of Kelvinsi]

Trump is gonna go down as the most consequential president since Reagan, for better or worse. Even if he loses

[Sarenium]

McConnell just confirmed Trump’s replacement is getting a senate vote

I think this is the end of the liberal activist SCOTUS for better or for worse. 3/9 conservative judges are gonna be a generation away from retirement. 6-3 conservative majority for the foreseeable future, maybe 5-4 after Thomas passes.

The Court literally hasn't leaned Liberal since Johnson. Maybe since Carter. For the past three decades though, it has been stringently slight-Conservative bend, it's most "Liberal" rulings were authored by Republican-appointed Judges in the mold of Kennedy and Stevens.

Filling this vacancy so close to election is an act of the ultimate political hypocrisy, and it's ramifications on judicial philosophy and national unity will be immense. The 2018 Senate Races saw 52.2 million Americans vote for Democratic candidates, and 34.7 million for Republicans. They also sent 60.5 million House ballots to Democrats, while sending 50.8 million to Republicans. This President was elected with less votes. This Senate is held hostage by a man who has turned 'the greatest deliberative body' into a rubber stamp for judicial nominees. Neither has a mandate to fill the vacancy.

Conservatives giving up on passing statutory law and hoping to stack the judiciary to hold hostage the legislative mechanism of the United States through case law is also the single largest failure of Democracy. John Howard, the most conservative Prime Minister of Australia decried case law as antidemocratic in nature, legal theorists universally agree that case law inadvertently alienates voters because they didn't vote to give that mandate to a court. The U.S. is now two steps from a banana republic, have fun lmao.

[New Cobastheia]

Are any of you guys starting to feel like we all just died at some point before COVID and have been living in Hell for the last couple of months/years?

Like don't get me wrong, I like some good choas in my politics, it'd be boring otherwise, but like, at this point, I'm starting to feel as if I've had enough

[Lavan Tiri]

C'mon, Porter can still fight! And Dunbar is still there!

dunbar hasn't done anything since her announcement

I started a new job 2 days after and haven't had time.

[Kargintina the Third]

So apparently Murkowski, Romney, Collins and Grassley have all said they won’t vote until after election

Edit: unconfirmed considering I heard it from twitter