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Putting a large number of conservatives and other strict-constructionists on the Federal bench (including the Supreme Court) is on of the greatest contributions to American safety and prosperity Trump could make.
So we can have more Citizens United where billionaires rule our political parties? Constitutionalists are a mis-nomer, they're nothing but corrupt right wing activists.
Conservatives Judges will truly put the final nail in this country's coffin. CU has already done massive damage.
Putting a large number of conservatives and other strict-constructionists on the Federal bench (including the Supreme Court) is on of the greatest contributions to American safety and prosperity Trump could make.
Putting a large number of conservatives and other strict-constructionists on the Federal bench (including the Supreme Court) is on of the greatest contributions to American safety and prosperity Trump could make.
Since Nixon appointed Burger and Rhenquist, appointments to the Supreme Court have involved one useless mediocre hack after another. I cannot even remember most of their names, and I challenge anyone to point to a single decision of the last forty years where any one of these conservative judges have undercut the power of our mendacious corporate plutocracy.
Doh! From my op. So anxious to knee jerk respond, you do not read?
For those unfamiliar, judiciary nominations are presented on blue stationary - have been since the very early 1900s. The custom was for a nominee's home state senator to be given an opportunity to note how they would vote. The home state senator made their note on the same blue nomination stationary the nomination came on and returned it tot he Judiciary Committee. In other words, it was a courtesy...
Once the blue slip is gone, there will nothing, nothing stopping all of his current and future nominees being approved.
Of course, I know why Senator Reid did it. Politics. it always boils down to that. Politics is power, is war, is for the marbles.
You want to tell me rare parliamentary moves used not once (Ocare passage via budget reconciliation), but twice (the nuclear option) and this are not about politics???
So we can have more Citizens United where billionaires rule our political parties? Constitutionalists are a mis-nomer, they're nothing but corrupt right wing activists.
Conservatives Judges will truly put the final nail in this country's coffin. CU has already done massive damage.
What "damage" has Citizens United (which was a correct interpretation of the Constitution, regardless of whether its unpopular in some circles) done? It certainly didn't help billionaires buy the election for Hillary Clinton this last go around, even though she and her cronies raised well over a billion dollars for her campaign, which was nearly twice the amount that the Trump Campaign and affiliated groups raised: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/g...n-fundraising/
Putting a large number of conservatives and other strict-constructionists on the Federal bench (including the Supreme Court) is on of the greatest contributions to American safety and prosperity Trump could make.
Given our rousing success with the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the War on Alcohol, the War on Communists in Hollywood, and other such conservative endeavors, I have no doubt we'll see a resurgence of failed policy. It's the only thing conservatives know how to do: try the same thing again and again.
What "damage" has Citizens United (which was a correct interpretation of the Constitution, regardless of whether its unpopular in some circles) done? It certainly didn't help billionaires buy the election for Hillary Clinton this last go around, even though she and her cronies raised well over a billion dollars for her campaign, which was nearly twice the amount that the Trump Campaign and affiliated groups raised: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/g...n-fundraising/
Money doesn't always win but it certainly corrupts in many ways, nameless donors, Super Pac's and their lobbyist take away to voice of voters. Do you think that congressmen are going to fund their campaigns or listen to their constituents. You shouldn't be dismissing the impact of Citizens United based on one presidential election and ignoring congress.
The more important point you missed is that these Pac's don't directly coordinate with candidates, they are independent.
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