Breyer to Retire

[ll74]

https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1486383553994711046

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after serving more than two decades on the nation's highest court, court sources tell NPR.

 

[ll74]

It's almost as if news agencies had an article ready for this event

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075781724/justice-stephen-breyer-supreme-court-retires

Breyer's retirement gives President Biden his first opportunity to name a new justice to the court. During the 2020 campaign, he pledged to name an African American woman if he got the chance. The two leading contenders are said to be federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was on President Obama's shortlist for the court in 2016, and California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger, who served as assistant, and then deputy solicitor general in both Democratic and Republican administrations prior to her nomination to California's highest court.

 

[HisArpy]

It's going to be an interesting summer. Will Biden be able to hold it together long enough to nominate a replacement that Schummer can get confirmed before the Nov mid-terms?

Anyone know the over/under?

 

[ll74]

It's going to be an interesting summer. Will Biden be able to hold it together long enough to nominate a replacement that Schummer can get confirmed before the Nov mid-terms?

Anyone know the over/under?

I'm fairly certain a replacement will be nominated as soon as he's able to do so.

 

[HisArpy]

I'm fairly certain a replacement will be nominated as soon as he's able to do so.

Not the question.

The question is: Can that nominee get confirmed in an equally divided Senate right before a mid-term election where the majority is expected to lose a significant number of seats?



The answer depends on how badly Brandon continues to fuck up.

 

[ll74]

Not the question.

The question is: Can that nominee get confirmed in an equally divided Senate right before a mid-term election where the majority is expected to lose a significant number of seats?



The answer depends on how badly Brandon continues to fuck up.

I don't have to acknowledge your bullshit phrasing, in order to answer.

ASAP is fairly straight forward - they have the list down to two already....I doubt it would take longer than a week to select the one. I expect it the nom will happen a week after and the Senate to start the process within a month. Probably May for completion.

 

[pecksniff]

It's almost as if news agencies had an article ready for this event

If they're smart, they'll have one ready for all nine at all times.

It's like the standard practice of having an obituary ready for every celeb.

 

[pecksniff]

Not the question.

The question is: Can that nominee get confirmed in an equally divided Senate right before a mid-term election where the majority is expected to lose a significant number of seats?

The filibuster no longer applies to judicial nominations, so it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[HisArpy]

The filibuster no longer applies to judicial nominations, so it shouldn't be a problem.

It's go to get out of committee first.

 

[ll74]

If they're smart, they'll have one ready for all nine at all times.

It's like the standard practice of having an obituary ready for every celeb.

Typically Presidents keep a short list of candidates. How short it is, I'm sure, depends on the possibility that it will be used, as well as giving an our for political maneuvering that might need to take place on the fly. imo, of course.

 

[Wrong Element]

It's almost as if news agencies had an article ready for this event

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075781724/justice-stephen-breyer-supreme-court-retires

When Jackson was elevated to the Appeals Court, it was with the understanding that she was being prepped for this moment.

Not the question.

The question is: Can that nominee get confirmed in an equally divided Senate right before a mid-term election where the majority is expected to lose a significant number of seats?

Like there isn't recent precedent for getting it done in even less time? Dream on.

 

[pecksniff]

It's go to get out of committee first.

And the majority party controls the committees. That's no obstacle.

 

[AlterErgo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKC71LdXoAkWqFi?format=jpg&name=900x900the moment he found out he was nominated for SCOTUS to fill Breyer's seat

 

[KeithD]

It's almost as if news agencies had an article ready for this event

They would have.

 

[HisArpy]

I don't have to acknowledge your bullshit phrasing, in order to answer.

ASAP is fairly straight forward - they have the list down to two already....I doubt it would take longer than a week to select the one. I expect it the nom will happen a week after and the Senate to start the process within a month. Probably May for completion.

Again, what you WANT to believe is irrelevant.

There are 2 names being touted. One is an outright radical and the other is in the 9th circuit which is the most overturned circuit of all.

And of course, Brandon's already been burned once with his campaign promises in the form of Kamala as a useless and unliked VP. If he sticks with, or is told to stick with, his promises to nominate a minority woman and he chooses someone so far to the Left even the Radical Left can't lean that way far enough, expect a protracted committee fight. If he decides that being burned once is enough, it's possible that whoever he nominates will get fought in committee by his own party.


It's going to be interesting no matter which way it goes. What I think is problematic is that Breyer didn't give a retirement date. The closest I found to a date is that he'll retire after a nominee is confirmed.

As a practical matter; if there's no open seat, a nominee can't be confirmed to one. If he's going to wait only until there's an official nominee (say in your week or so) and then vacate his seat immediately so it's open, that's also a problem because it leaves the court short a justice.


There's also the spectre of a repeat of Merrick Garland's failed nomination right before an election in which the party in power is projected to change. I doubt this will happen but it's there. However, do the D's want to be seen as the party forcing a nominee into a chair on the Supreme Court right before an election in which the question being decided is whether the government is too overbearing?

The whole thing is problematic and smacks of really bad timing by about a month at the very least. Had Breyer announced his retirement last fall, no problem. Now? Yeah, problems.

 

[KeithD]

I'm fairly certain a replacement will be nominated as soon as he's able to do so.

Several black women (his campaign promise) have already been vetted.

 

[ll74]

Again, what you WANT to believe is irrelevant.

There are 2 names being touted. One is an outright radical and the other is in the 9th circuit which is the most overturned circuit of all.

I speculated based on available information, which was what you asked for.

Go make your own thread if you wish to just argue about bullshit. You could have just said "when do you believe a nom will be made" but instead you threw in your bullshit about Biden.

 

[KeithD]

It's go to get out of committee first.

My goodness you seem upset by this.

Any reason you can't just sit back and watch like most of the rest of us will do? It's not like you have any personal impact on any of this. You don't even seem to realize your head is lodged up your ass.

 

[HisArpy]

I speculated based on available information, which was what you asked for.

Go make your own thread if you wish to just argue about bullshit.

If you can pull political rabbits out of your ass and talk about them, then everyone else can do it too.


Sorry, not sorry you didn't know that.

 

[ll74]

If you can pull political rabbits out of your ass and talk about them, then everyone else can do it too.


Sorry, not sorry you didn't know that.

Right, have fun with that.

 

[HisArpy]

My goodness you seem upset by this.

Any reason you can't just sit back and watch like most of the rest of us will do? It's not like you have any personal impact on any of this. You don't even seem to realize your head is lodged up your ass.

Oh my, shades of the hysterical HisArpy is in MELTDOWN mode!!!!


You make me laugh with your crap. Mostly because you and the rest don't understand that this is a "DISCUSSION BOARD." You know, a place where people can share their thoughts on stuff being discussed.

 

[HisArpy]

Right, have fun with that.

I do.

Every.

Fucking.

Day.

 

[ll74]

Much quieter now.

I expect by the end of the day we'll hear more....or at least by Friday.

 

[pecksniff]

There's also the spectre of a repeat of Merrick Garland's failed nomination right before an election in which the party in power is projected to change. I doubt this will happen but it's there. However, do the D's want to be seen as the party forcing a nominee into a chair on the Supreme Court right before an election in which the question being decided is whether the government is too overbearing?

It is because of the Garland precedent that the Dems won't dare wait to confirm a new justice.

 

[AlterErgo]

When Jackson was elevated to the Appeals Court, it was with the understanding that she was being prepped for this moment.






Like there isn't recent precedent for getting it done in even less time? Dream on.

want a REAL BLACK WOMAN who is PRO AMERICA on the bench?

here


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FKC9G_OXsAog0G6?format=jpg&name=medium