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I saw Sotamayor said she had no intention of stepping down while the Dems still have the Senate. She's 70. I hope she realizes the Dems probably won't get the Senate back for a couple of cycles, if then. And who knows what happens in '28. So odds are whoever replaces her won't be half as liberal as she is, even if the Dems retake the WH and she's still around. It's nuts, the Dems were gifted three seats on the court by Souter, Blackmun and Stevens and seem determined to give them back.

 

"....organizing the party around a bolder, leftward direction is difficult to fathom. A more leftist set of domestic policy prescriptions requires its proponents to run the sort of piping-hot, high-spending economy that Biden attempted—and probably to a greater extent than Biden was willing to go. The failure of Bidenomics to impress the very voters it strove so mightily to help will make politicians extremely skittish about taking that approach again anytime soon. But even if Democrats were brave enough to let it rip, bolder policies also require a functioning administrative state to administer them. Right now, the Supreme Court is not committed to the administrative state’s survival and is more likely to keep dismantling it."

A Cold, Hard Look Into Our Trumpian Future | The New Republic

 

Team MAGA intends to cook up a health/competency crisis by which they can justify Sotomayor's removal by impeachment demanded by Trump's executive order. (They'll come for Kagan quickly thereafter.)

That is, of course, a teeny weeny little bit outside the actual constitutional process (like about 574 thousand light years) but they are confident the stalwart Supreme Court will be receptive to innovative legal thinking.

 

The Trump Administration was not in power last month.

 

The Trump administration is not in power now, nor will be until January 20th.

 

If you don't believe McConnell would ratfuck the nomination to assure Sotamayor's replacement would be chosen by Trump, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is a bargain...

 

He's referencing a tweet I deleted about Susie Wiles' business partner lobbying for Deripaska.

 

Won't matter

 

M y bad. Sorry.

 

No problem, it was my bad.

 

Sometimes I miss Dick’s trolling threads

 

Aye, there's the rub.