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The Republicans do seem to be getting very serious about setting things up to finally put a stake through its heart, but at best it's going to be several years before the SC gets a case that let's them reverse it. Once thst happens, it becomes an issue for the states, and once that inevitably...

The cited reasoning is and method is interesting, it exempts current justices and instead only applies going forward, and it's being billed as effort to defuse tensions on the court. It's also impossible, and it's stupid to try a stunt like this. SC tenure is governed by the constitution...

Hopefully people will have calmed down by then, but even if they don't, stotomoyor and Kagen don't have anything close to RBG's cultist following.

I do love how this whole mess clearly shows the utter lack of foresight by everyone in power. Everyone here looked at RGB, who was visibly decaying right before their eyes, looked at several of the other justices that are nearly as old, and said to themselves "Yes, I should stake out a firm...

In theory, yes, but not in practice. They'd need grounds for impeachment, and sadly "being a toxic and deranged hyper-partisan" isn't a valid reason to get rid of a federal official.

Yeah, that's absurd. One of the most important things a president does is appoint SC justices (it shouldn't be that important, but it is). The American people absolutely have a right to know what sort of judges the president thinks should be on the court, because a choice between candidates is...

I'm not sure you can really say either side is particularly conspiratorial, since they're entirely correct to say that the other side wants to execute exactly the kind of dubiously ethical power grab that the conspiracy people say they are. At best, they just get the motive off and assume the...

He first proposed what the GOP later did and named after him. Biden and Harris will have a hard time doing that without the Senate, and this gamble puts them a lot closer to getting the senate. More to the point, no one in power seems to have any plan to deescalate from where we are now...

Because they couldn't even wait an hour to announce they were take the power at all costs and damn the consequences approach. First, there's 4 solid conservatives, 3 liberals, and one wishy washy consevative, so if it ends up being a purely partisan vote, Trump is safe no matter what...

Great. I really hate my party sometimes.

Trump can nominate whoever he wants, whenever he wants, he's not the one that invoked the Biden rule against Garland. The issue would be confirmation in the senate.

Here's the thing, the reason the GOP has been able to push back on all of that is because it's demonstrably false, whereas in this case it would be inarguably true.

Well, this is going to make the next election interesting. That's a bad move, given 2016. That kind of overt hypocrisy will not benefit the GOP during the current election.