President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

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No Supreme Court nominee of a President of either party will ever be confirmed again if the opposition has the Senate majority. Doesn't matter what year of their term it will be. It's the new standard now. The fiction that the Court is above politics can be dispensed with. It's a governing body with lifetime tenure. The only practical limit on it would be threats from the other two branches to pack it.

 

And of course the ConCon is coming in a year or so (or sooner), when they'll rip the whole thing up.

It's a coup.

 

Which we would all welcome if it would get you to shut up.

 

The Trump administration is trying to unmask a Twitter user who is mean to them.

Twitter is suing the government for trying to unmask an anti-Trump account

 

John Elway approves that.

 

See the next post below.

 

By that definition, any second term president is "lame duck" from 12:01 a.m. on the morning after their reelection. So second-term presidents are now lame ducks for 51 months?

 

Days without WTF: O

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/opinion/creeping-toward-crisis.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0

During the news conference, a reporter asked:

“If I may, Mr. President: You know very well that the Iranian militias and Hezbollah have been propping the Syrian regime for a while, over a few years now. Will you go after them? What message will you give them today? And will you work with the Russians to stop, to ground, the Syrian Air Force and to establish safe zones?”

Actually, it was clear that the president didn’t “know very well.” In fact, he seemed lost by the question. So instead of answering, he opened an attack on the Iran nuclear deal and ISIS.

The reporter had to point out the ridiculousness of the answer: “But sir, I’m talking about the Iranian militias in Syria supporting the Syrian regime, separate of the nuclear deal. What message do you have for them today?” Caught in his ignorance, Trump clumsily responded: “You will see. They will have a message. You will see what the message will be, O.K.”

 

The lame duck period is defined as the time between the election in November and the Inauguration. Scalia died in February. Obama was in the last year of his presidency, but he was only a lame duck in Republican rhetoric as they refused to do their job of examining the nominee and either voting him up or down. If that is the new standard, where is the line? Can a nominee be blocked if it is after the second year, as the presidential term is more than half over? Can it be blocked at any damn time Congress wants to refuse to process a nomination?

 

That's ... not good.