Who Should Replace RBG?

Don’t care.

 

Oh but he can and he will. In my opinion he would be derelict in his duty not to.

 

IF? LOL! Here is the truth: Trump is large and in charge. He gets to pick!

 

Bwaaaaa.......... The Dems wouldn't wait...

This is KARMA from the Emmett Sullivan fiasco involving General Flynn.

 

Well....

Your comment, "someone with common sense," reinforces the obvious that Trump should nominate someone from his lists.

But someone who rec'd their law degree from outside of the Ivy League is highly preferred at this point.

 

Yes, if he wins a couple more may follow. WHEN he wins, make that couple count. Young and hard-core conservative. Fire-breathing Constitutional originalists likely to send our leftists straight into catatonia.

But I say, take no chances. Put out a name and force the Senate to do its job even in an election year. Nomination is not the final vote. Procedural mischief abounds.

 

You are right of course, and wrong. Right in that any color or gender should be acceptable in a competent person. Wrong in that the public will perceive that any replacement not in kind will be in some way a new plot to destroy someone group or benefit some specific special interest. While the latter shouldn't matter- it is unfortunately what we are living with. Actual qualifications to do the best job are frequently down the list a ways from politically acceptable at the moment.

 

You need to read the U.S. Constitution.

You need to read the U.S. Constitution.
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Trump needs to wait a week to honor RBG and then nominate someone. Then let the senate do their job. He is the president and has a duty until he is legally replaced by the voters. We know the democrats would not wait for an election if the situation was reversed. Just do it Donald and let the chips fall where they may.

 

In work I'd agree. In government it's different when 50% of the population is women. Shouldn't they have someone who can relate?

 

During a March 2016 hearing, Graham said Republicans were setting a “precedent” by refusing to consider a nominee from then-President Barack Obama to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing. As the Senate Judiciary Committee’s current chairman, Graham hypothetically could play the role that former chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) played in 2016, by refusing to hold hearings on a nominee.

“I want you to use my words against me: If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/where-key-gop-senators-stand-on-an-election-year-scotus-vacancy

 

This shows Providence at work.

Mitch wants a name ASAP. And I would venture that Trump is already on the phone narrowing down the field.

 

How long is that? I'm a bit inept when comes to the concept of honor and symbolism. Still I try to be sympathetic to the emotional well being of the living.

 

Putting out the name of some hard right nominee before the election could cost the GOP seats in Congress. It forces candidates within the party to take sides.

 

Wait? Say what? It's more like the Dems would be passing nominating petitions over her casket at the funeral. Come to think on it, they still might. Not about her replacement but which federal building to name after her. Now, let's all stretch our imaginations. Whichever federal building would that beeeeeee.....?

 

Grow a fracking skin or else bail out of Congress and go back to earning an honest living.

 

Can all American women relate to Kamala Harris? Isn't that your real question?

EDIT: No snark intended.

 

Susan Collins is facing an uphill battle and has committed to not considering any nominee. Since she sits on Judiciary, she could keep the nominee on hold. She either has to break her word or break with the GOP, neither of which will make her hill less steep.

 

And that 's fine...but I disagree...the President has a duty to nominate just like Obama did, under the Biden Rule. The issue is the Seante acting....Graham isn't the leader...he can't stop the vote....I get that he obviously follows the Biden Rule....and maybe you do now too...but it's has caused great division when it was used.....McConnell is right to abolish that rule

 

I heard Trump plans to put a member of Q on the SC - #PizzaGate

 

Explaining the Klansman Hugo Black and Earl Warren, then lately John Roberts, all wholesale weavers of new law. Roger Taney, anyone? Charming fellow until he said or wrote anything, including good morning. Just, ah, dredd the day he did.... (Uh huh, I went there.)

 

She can change parties after the reelection and will never be missed.

 

He added: “We’re setting a precedent here today, Republicans are, that in the last year — at least of a lame duck eight-year term, I would say it’s going to be a four-year term — that you’re not going to fill a vacancy at the Supreme Court based on what we’re doing here today.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/where-key-gop-senators-stand-on-an-election-year-scotus-vacancy

 

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Just days ago, Collins said “I think that’s too close, I really do” when asked if she would fill a Supreme Court seat in October, The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin reported after Ginsburg’s death Friday.

 

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Murkowski on Friday — before news broke of Ginsburg’s passing — said “I would not vote to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. We are 50 some days away from an election.”

That echoes what she said last month: that it would be a “double standard” to fill a vacancy so close to Election Day and therefore that she “would not support it.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Back when he was still serving as Judiciary Committee chairman, in October 2018, Grassley said the committee wouldn’t consider a Supreme Court nominee in 2020.

“If I’m chairman they won’t take it up,” he said during an interview on Fox News.

“No, because I pledged that in 2016, that if the ball’s the same as it is,” he added. “Now, if somebody else is the chairman of the committee, they’ll have to decide for themselves. But that’s a decision I made a long time ago.”

 

I don't support her as his VP pick. I wasn't thinking about her but you are right.she isn't relatable to most women. Or blacks I'd imagine...