News of the Week for Sept. 27th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7 Things to Know About Upcoming Supreme Court Process, Picks<\/a> You Don’t Have Enough Ammo for the Post-Ginsburg 2020 Apocalypse<\/a> A Lame-Duck Confirmation Vote May Be a Chimera<\/a> Mitch McConnell, “Apex Predator”!<\/a> Romney on board with considering Supreme Court nominee<\/a> Democrat Mobs Gather at Homes of Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham Over RBG Replacement<\/a> Republicans Shouldn’t Tolerate Political Hostage-Taking from the Left<\/a> As SCOTUS Fight Brews, Republicans Act to Fill Remaining Judicial Vacancies<\/a> Susan Collins Will Vote No on Trump SCOTUS Nominee: “We’re Simply Too Close to the Election”<\/a> What Does an Incumbent Think Is Worth Losing an Election?<\/a> Lisa Murkowski Reverses Position on Filling SCOTUS Vacancy, Won’t Rule Out Vote to Confirm<\/a> Here’s How Democrats Plan to Block Trump’s SCOTUS Pick<\/a> Is Amy Coney Barrett an Originalist?<\/a> The Judicial Branch Ragnar\u00f6k Is Upon Us<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Floyd case revisited<\/a> DOJ Designates New York City, Portland, Seattle as “Anarchist Jurisdictions”<\/a> “Black” Indiana Black Lives Matter Activist Outed As White<\/a> Minneapolis Has A George Floyd Autonomous Zone Where Police Struggle To Respond To Calls For Help<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Supreme Court Vacancy<\/h1>\n
\nWith the unexpected death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Friday, Republicans face a tight timeline to get a new Supreme Court justice in place before the election.<\/p>\n
\nThe news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2019s passing on Friday certainly ratcheted up the 2020 crazy by several orders of magnitude, didn’t it?<\/p>\n
\nIt is entirely possible that a confirmation vote prior to the election doesn’t happen, either because the timing is simply too tight or vulnerable Republicans don’t want to be put in an awkward spot (Tillis, Gardner, et al.). But the odds of confirming a justice would drastically decrease in a lame duck if Republicans lose the Senate and the presidency, and at this juncture you’d say the Democrats winning is more likely than not. In that circumstance, the pressure from the media and the Democrats would be crushing, and it’s easy to see Republicans buckling. So it may be that a confirmation needs to happen before the election, or it’s not happening at all.<\/p>\n
\nWriting in the Washington Post, Howard Fineman declares, “Mitch McConnell is the apex predator of U.S. politics.” He does not mean it as a compliment, writing that “no one since the Southern segregationists of the 1940s and 1950s did more to cripple the proper functioning of all three branches of government, not to mention faith in the very idea of one America.”<\/p>\n
\nMitt Romney reportedly has agreed with Republican leadership’s decision to move ahead with the process of confirming a Supreme Court nominee. With Romney apparently on board, Lindsey Graham says that leadership has the votes to get a nominee confirmed, assuming no unexpected developments.<\/p>\n
\n“dozens of gatherers turned out in the dark after the Senator expressed over the weekend that he’d support Pres. Donald Trump’s nomination to replace the empty seat on the U.S. Supreme Court”<\/p>\n
\nAs we wait for Donald Trump to announce his pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there has been some division on the right over the most prudent course of action for the GOP to take. Some conservatives, especially on the anti-Trump right, including my good friend and former colleague David French, have suggested that Republicans ought to wait to hold a vote on a nominee until after the election.<\/p>\n
\nRepublicans have already confirmed more than a dozen federal judges so far this month. And the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to advance more nominees and hold hearings on others, guaranteeing a pipeline of potential judges.<\/p>\n
\n“\u2026and in the interest of being fair to the American people \u2014 and consistent, since it was with the Garland nomination.”<\/p>\n
\nOver on the home page, Dan McLaughlin has an excellent and persuasive column arguing that Republican senators should do what they believe is right, regardless of any potential political risk in November: Consider President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court and, presuming they find the nominee qualified and worthy addition to the court, vote to confirm the nominee.<\/p>\n
\nSenator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) made a stunning reversal of her position on filling the vacancy left by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to a report from Alaska Public Media, Murkowski now can’t rule out voting to confirm a nominee before the election.<\/p>\n
\nDemocrats looking to block Donald Trump’s Supreme Court pick have a surprisingly large array of weapons they can employ in that effort. The Senate is particularly well suited to the task of obstructing and interfering with the process because of its long history in which built-in delays, procedures, and rules slow down the mechanisms of government to a crawl.<\/p>\n
\nPresident Donald Trump will nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. Amy Coney Barrett, a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, is widely considered the frontrunner. When Trump was deliberating on whom he would nominate to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, the president said of Barrett, “I’m saving her for Ginsburg.”<\/p>\n
\nAs expected, President Trump selected Amy Coney Barrett as his third nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, and now the Judicial Branch Ragnar\u00f6k and Related Festival of Catholic-Bashing is upon us.<\/p>\n<\/a>Riots & Revolution<\/h1>\n
\nRoshini Rajkumar invited former prosecutor George Parry to discuss Parry’s take on the case of the four former Minneapolis police officers charged with the murder of George Floyd on WCCO News Talk’s Facebook page yesterday (video below). Roshini’s interview follows up on Parry’s American Spectator columns “Who killed George Floyd?” (August 7) and “The George Floyd fall guys” (August 13). The links go to Parry’s columns posted at Knowledge is Good, which also has several other interviews.<\/p>\n
\nBarr: “It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens.”<\/p>\n
\n“I have taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white. I have used Blackness when it was not mine to use”<\/p>\n
\nThere’s a sign set up in the street in Minneapolis that reads “You are now entering the free state of George Floyd.” Four square blocks were blocked off from traffic by the city to protect those visiting the George Floyd memorial but over time this has apparently been turned into an autonomous zone similar to the CHAZ\/CHOP that existed in Seattle over the summer.<\/p>\n