SC Justice Hearings Wont Begin Until Oct. 12???

[Thunk]

I saw miss lindsey on Sunday Morning Futures...He said the COMMITTEE HEARINGS for Amy Coney Barrett will begin on OCTOBER 12th.

WTF is the hold up miss lindsey? A 2 & a half week delay FOR WHAT???

This POS is really pissing me off!

Start the damn hearings TOMORROW!

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Senate does have a schedule. And I believe she needs time to meet with the members on the committee that will be deciding her nomination. Two weeks is no big deal. Besides, gets the hearings closer to the elections.
Isn't that a win for Republicans?

 

[toobfreak]

Senate does have a schedule. And I believe she needs time to meet with the members on the committee that will be deciding her nomination. Two weeks is no big deal. Besides, gets the hearings closer to the elections.
Isn't that a win for Republicans?

Yes, both she and they need to get a lot of things together. She will need to provide thousands of pages of documents.

Besides, even if they COULD start tomorrow, that WOULD look like they were really trying to ram this through in a mad panic! What do people think, that she should be on the bench hearing cases by next weekend? This is a really big, very important, huge process.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Senate does have a schedule. And I believe she needs time to meet with the members on the committee that will be deciding her nomination. Two weeks is no big deal. Besides, gets the hearings closer to the elections.
Isn't that a win for Republicans?

Yes, it is. The only bitch the Dems have is, "ACK! She's Catholic!". That will send a quarter of the voters in this country to vote against the Democrats. They will be running to the polls to vote for Trump...

 

[Thunk]

Isn't that a win for Republicans?

It might be...but we NEED all 9 justices seated BEFORE the election!

With 80 million ballots mailed out this election will be thrown into utter chaos...expect it!

Our only hope of avoiding bloodshed is if Trump wins in such a massive landslide that 80 million mail-in ballots wont tip the scales anyway.

If it comes down to a 4-4 split decision by the SC...Katy bar the door!

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Senate does have a schedule. And I believe she needs time to meet with the members on the committee that will be deciding her nomination. Two weeks is no big deal. Besides, gets the hearings closer to the elections.
Isn't that a win for Republicans?

Yes, it is. The only bitch the Dems have is, "ACK! She's Catholic!". That will send a quarter of the voters in this country to vote against the Democrats. They will be running to the polls to vote for Trump...

I could care less if she was a pagan. The next President should be doing the nomination..after the election. She's going to be confirmed, however, I don't care one way or the other. And you might want to pay attention to the news (the legitimate news of course) a bit more. This issue is galvanizing Democrats more than Republicans.

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Isn't that a win for Republicans?

It might be...but we NEED all 9 justices seated BEFORE the election!

With 80 million ballots mailed out this election will be thrown into utter chaos...expect it!

Our only hope of avoiding bloodshed is if Trump wins in such a massive landslide that 80 million mail-in ballots wont tip the scales anyway.

If it comes down to a 4-4 split decision by the SC...Katy bar the door!

So....without even seeing the final vote tally on November 3rd, you and the rest of Trump nation have already decided that you're going contest it. And stacking the SC is your goal because you think the decision on the election is going there regardless? Why don't we wake up on November 4th and see if that will be the case. If Trump loses by a healthy margin, I don't think the SC would even look at it, regardless of makeup. Making sure the election process runs as it should is the purview of the FEC.

 

[skews13]

Isn't that a win for Republicans?

It might be...but we NEED all 9 justices seated BEFORE the election!

With 80 million ballots mailed out this election will be thrown into utter chaos...expect it!

Our only hope of avoiding bloodshed is if Trump wins in such a massive landslide that 80 million mail-in ballots wont tip the scales anyway.

If it comes down to a 4-4 split decision by the SC...Katy bar the door!

Doesn't matter. Read the 20th Amendment numbnuts. The court doesn't decide anything. Congress does.

The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

As of noon on the 20th, it's automatic. No decision is made by anybody but the Constitution.

If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.

That would be Nancy Pelosi, or another Speaker if chosen, until it's settled. Because you sure as hell aren't winning back the House.

Which brings us back to Section 2:

The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.

Which means a new House will have already been seated 17 days before the 20th, and the Speaker chosen by the majority.

No where in the 20th Amendment, does the Constitution give the Supreme Court the power to decide anything, no matter how many members are on it.

 

[Thunk]

Doesn't matter. Read the 20th Amendment numbnuts. The court doesn't decide anything. Congress does.

Yet another brain malfunction?

You obviously can't remember the bush Vs. gore election...numbnuts!