Time to retire, Ruthie, while you can still enjoy your remaining years.
Now RBG's the biggest liberal on the Court, and Thomas may choose to retire soon. Thomas would, of course, be replaced by a strong Constitutionalist. Replacing RBG with same would unleash the furies of hell. Just wondering - what if Trump were to promise to nominate Garland to replace RBG, in exchange for the House Dems dropping their impeachment investigations for both the President and Kavanaugh? Is that a deal worth making for the sake of our polarized nation? Or should both sides just go all in on absolute, total warfare?
Absolutely not. The Democrats should be allowed to make total and utter fools of themselves by turning the House into a caricature of a toothless star chamber for the next two years. I doubt if they could get actual articles of impeachment passed in the House, and even if they did, any such impeachment will be dead on arrival in the Senate.
And at any rate, if Ginsburg goes first, so that the Democrats get theirs first, the Democrats would never honor the agreement when it came to replacing Thomas.
No, that’s a bad deal all around. The Democrats killed the 60+ requirement for judicial nominations back when they controlled the Senate. It’s time to show them just how painful that act of arrogance will be to them. Since Congress will not get anything else of substance accomplished in the next two years, McConnell should turn the Senate into a judicial nomination machine and crank out as many Republican-appointed judges as possible at all levels.
