I’m listening to Meet the Press that I DVR’d and Pete William of NBC New just nailed what all the importance is about replacing SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg:
- The upcoming case on Obamacare (again – Red States brought suit that if there is no individual mandate and tax on not enrolling, it’s unconstitutional) and it impact on the Democrat agenda.
- How soon can a nominee go through the process?
- The Trump nominee WILL be a Conservative – replacing a Liberal.
- With six Conservatives, the court would be solidly Conservative for decades to come.
That latter bit, assuming no one else dies or retires during those decades which we know isn’t going to happen, is what scares the Democrats the most. Not just that, but it would remove the Supreme Court as their “Super Legislature”. We have seen, through the years, that when they couldn’t get legislation through by normal means, or STOP legislation while it was going through the normal processes.
An example here from NH that the Democrats and their allied groups (like the ACLU-NH) with the lawsuit against the Republican legislation that was finally passed that essentially stopped “transients” from voting in favor of NH residents. When the NH Supreme Court answered the Federal Judge with proper definitions domicile and residency, they realized that their “Super Legislature” had disappeared and withdrew from the case as they knew they had lost (at least for now).
Now, and only now, have the Democrats realized what Trump has done to them. He realized, far more than other Republican Presidents and Senates, that a linchpin of Democrat power was via the the Judiciary. He has, in three years, almost wholly redone the ideological outlook of all the Federal courts. It’s not done yet, but fairly close. Getting his nominee through would, indeed, alter the SCOTUS outlook for some time to come. It is the tipping point.
And if he wins re-election, and the Rs hold the Senate, that march will continue. And the Democrats, having been taken by surprise, are already trying to seek retribution. That will be for another post.
In Richard Fernandez piece “Ginsburg’s Death Reveals the Democrats’ No-Limit Casino of Doom“, he outlined the back ground of the entire debate.
Every four years, the political world speculates about an October surprise that might shake up the presidential campaign in its final stages. This year’s October surprise just arrived, two weeks early, with the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. …
Most immediately, it opens the door for an explosive new issue in a campaign already reeling from the triple whammies of a coronavirus pandemic, the economic slide the virus created, and broad racial ferment.
All of those have already roiled the campaign – this is now a fourth. I would posit that the Democrats KNOW that this is the most important of the four. The numbers for the pandemic are getting better – we also have decent procedures in place for prevention (although “masking” has become quite political in and of itself as well has the way that many governors has applied lockdowns in their own States EVEN AS the Democrats wail how bad Trump has handled it).
Sidenote: Frankly, I think he’s done the right thing – a proper handling and exercising of the great political idea of Federalism. He has no Power for masking, for economic lockdown, or any other of the myriad of actions that Governors have done. The Federal Government is supposed to be limited – IF HE HAD DONE what democrats have demanded, Federalism would have been destroyed.
They understand that, until their take over of Education in the US has come to full fruition, their goose is cooked for a at least a few years. This, they cannot let go forward. We’re already seeing their willingness, with the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, that violence is their means to an end. We’ve seen this in history before.
Projection – the Dems for years, for almost every R in the Oval Office, projecting that they’d not leave office peacefully, yet they have. They often said that the TEA Party movement was violent – yeah, we who picked up all the trash where we had rallies in which they were in better shape than when we came. And at the massive rallies in DC where Black Democrat politicians accused TEA Partiers of spitting on them, not even a prize of $100,000 ever established any such act. Projection.
Yet, I listen to those Democrats in the BLM / Antifa movement already claiming (having shown a propensity for doing exactly that) that they will burn everything down if Biden doesn’t win.
Who are the fearmongers of violence right now?
The Democrats may not be able to concede … A loss by Joe Biden … will destroy America (he can’t), but because it is the outcome most likely to undermine faith in democracy …
I struggle to imagine how, beyond utter shock, millions of Democrats will process a Trump victory. A loss for Biden, after having been the clear favorite all summer, would provoke mass disillusion with electoral politics as a means of change—at a time when disillusion is already dangerously high. If Democrats can’t beat a candidate as unpopular as Trump during a devastating pandemic and a massive economic contraction, then are they even capable of winning presidential elections anymore? Democracy, after all, is supposed to self-correct after mistakes, particularly mistakes as egregious as electing Donald Trump—whose unfitness for the nation’s highest office makes itself apparent with almost every passing day.
Faith in democracy? Just because you LOST?
But that IS the crux of the matter – it’s almost an entitlement outlook, eh?
