The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller

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  Robbie22
  March 10th, 2023
  

  It’s pretty simple, 3 openings became available during president trumps term and it was his decision on who to pick.
  I’m suprised biden hasn’t added another 5 positions and nominated 3 black transexuals, a Hispanic lesbian and flamboyant Muslim homosexual.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  BillyJack
  March 10th, 2023
  

  FAULTS– The first opening happened in Obama’s term but the cheating Republicans said “8 months to the next election is too close, let’s wait until the next President.”
  Then RBG dies weeks before the 2020 election. The Republicans say “we have to fill this seat immediately, we can’t wait”.
  Republicans are lying cheating and power-hungry hypocrites.
  They will have their payback. what goes around comes around.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  Dktz1
  March 11th, 2023
  

  @BillyJack you mean payback like accusing Kavanaugh of being a gang rapist based on the testimony of 1 woman who kept changing her story and was even contradicted by other people from her story?
  Also, Obama’s pick couldn’t go through because he didn’t have the votes (regardless of whatever excuse the republicans gave at the time), and just as well, since Garland has already shown himself to be a political hack, going after parents who are going against the board of Ed.

  You’re upset the republicans won a game of chess against someone who was playing checkers. The rules aren’t what you seem to think they are. A president can only nominate justices, but the senate has to ratify the choice. A president with an opposing senate (like Obama at the time) isn’t going to be able to appoint a justice without some political maneuvering, and he didn’t have the time to do it.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  chrisxiii
  March 11th, 2023
  

  Hmmmm … anything but credit the one who lives rent free in their heads LOL

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  Malachie520
  March 11th, 2023
  

  There is no question the hypocrisy of not abiding by a “precedent” set for one scenario when it plays out four years later and the precedent is forgotten about. It is political gamesmanship and wasn’t really the payoff that the Right hoped for. Sure, Roe. v. Wade went away but the Right lost an ally by “winning” that fight since most evangelicals align right politically because of what candidates say. Now they’ll actually pay attention to who they’re electing. It might yield the same jagoffs, but it’s not the same and that will become a political reality for the more extreme sooner rather than later.

  Nobody was accusing Kavanaugh of gang-raping anyone. The ABA withdrew their support of him after his performance citing his behavior was unbecoming of someone considered for the Supreme Court. She came off very credible and there’s no doubt that what she described did actually happen. It didn’t matter; McConnell had already promised to push him through whenever the whole “trial” was over.

  Parents are the absolute last people on the planet that should have an opinion on anything regarding school curriculum and emergency rules. Most showed themselves during the 2020 shut-down to even be incapable of helping their children with simple math, let alone read to them, or any number of other things to help their child make it through. Rather, many decided to spend their time protestings masks and closures, demanding the return of their free babysitters, instead of being home with their struggling child. These parents would use a common ploy, writing threatening emails and leaving threatening messages for school board members. Terroristic threatening is what it’s called. These are the same kinds of parents that start fights at school events because it’s all about them, never about the kids. The DoJ has an obligation to investigate domestic terrorists. Many despicable parents don’t elevate their threatening to the level that some do. It’s these some that deserve repercussions for their actions. The others should remember what they do for a living (which is not teaching or caring for their child) and do as they’re told. They lost their opportunity to make a difference. Now it is up to their poor kids who hopefully overcome the struggle of having to live with people like that.

  We desperately need a flamboyant homosexual Muslim on the Supreme Court! All these anti-gay lawsuits reaching the Court would hit different at opening arguments with someone sitting on the bench with the lived experience.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  timsikes10595
  March 11th, 2023
  

  Malachie520 considering flamboyant homosexual muslims are in the super minority (as are all of that demented lifestyle), let’s all hope that it is a cold day in hell before any fruit sits on the court.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  Adol
  March 11th, 2023
  

  @timsikes10595 Flamboyant homosexual muslims? What reality are you living in?? Because it sure as hell isn’t in this one. That’s utterly hilarious that you think such people even exist.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  timsikes10595
  March 11th, 2023
  

  Try and keep up Adol. My comment about freakish muslims was a response to Malachie520 who called it out. Guess we have to help you all from the short bus.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  Malachie520
  March 12th, 2023
  

  Congratulations, @timesikes10595! You have absorbed the CRT lesson and have become woke…except in reverse. Unless you are gay, having a gay Supreme Court Justice isn’t going to affect you. Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson doesn’t affect you unless you are Black. Having representation means the world to them because they’ve never had it. It also comes with a perspective of jurisprudence that is shaped by how the law and life intersect and fail those it’s supposed to protect.

  Whatever they decide about student loan forgiveness, nearly every one of them has the experience of it. A trans kid using a restroom or playing on a team is as frighteningly far away from their experience as a person can get. They have no representation. And it is systemic on why that is.

  No one is taking away your representation. Both Associate Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas were accused of sexual assault WHILE THEY WERE BEING CONFIRMED and were anyway by a bunch of men. Granted, it was the 90s, where ‘boys will be boys’ was a much more palatable excuse for sexual predation, but there was still a thing as going too far. They represent you. Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the Hail Mary the right-wing had been hoping for ever since Brown v. Board of Education and praying for since Roe v. Wade. They represent you. Chief Justice Roberts is hoping for a legacy of conservatism and non-activism (with varying results) and represents you perfectly. Not one “liberal” decision has affected you at all. You weren’t getting an abortion. You weren’t marrying your homosexual partner. You weren’t swearing off hospitals and health insurance. But maybe you’re a campaign donor. Maybe you’re a business owner with an interest in using religious freedom as an excuse for discrimination (it’s okay for you to be a bigot; no one is dictating your thoughts, just your actions).

  The flamboyant homosexual Muslim Supreme Court Chief Justice isn’t going to take away your deity or your sense of right. He will remind you that your deity is one of many in this world of fairy tales and your sense of right and actually doing right can be two different things.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  bosk
  March 12th, 2023
  

  Read the Constitution, especially Articles I and II.

  Pay particular attention to the powers of the President to appoint nominees and the powers of the Senate to confirm the nominee. Pay particular CLOSE ATTENTION to the “advise and consent” clause, where the Senate can either accept or REJECT said nominee. There was no “cheating” or grand dark money conspiracy. Garland was not a good candidate so much so that the Republicans rejected him outright. The rules of the Senate allow them to vote to start debate and hearings. Garland did not even pass that first initial consideration!

  And rightly so… as we have seen Garland would have been a disaster on the Court. He has weaponized the Dept of Justice and will have done so on the Supreme Court.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller
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  thundercloud2.0
  March 17th, 2024
  

  @bosk I’m not sure you are aware that Garland belongs to the Federalists Society. That’s all Republicans appoint! No matter what you say it was all about denying Obama appointing a sitting Justice. He actually met them half way by picking someone from the Federalist Society. I will admit McConnel played the long game and now that he has successfully ruined SCOTUS and placed a war on women once again he has announced he’s out. MAGA and Republicans that support have no idea what they have started.

  The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court - Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller

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