re: Hypocrisy of Both Sides- Own It

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There is ZERO excuse if you're ok with this you don't give a shite about the constitution you didn't in 2016 and you don't today.

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The above is utter horseshite.

1. Where in the constitution does it set forth that a president cannot appoint an SCJ in an election year?

2. Where in the constitution does it say that the Senate is required to consent to any SCJ nominee?

I guess that must be under the dying wish clause where judicial appointments pass by divine right of Kings

The constitution doesn’t just permit - it requires a power struggle btwn the 3 branches of gvt. The constitution is all about making sure that they gridlock each other. It’s all about regulating power and the only thing to slow power down is an equal opposing force.

There’s nothing unhealthy or unconstitutional about what Mitch McConnell did in 2016 re: Garland and it doesn’t violate any norms.

Packing the Supreme Court - Violates a Norm (dilutes the authority of court and makes it dependent on whim of legislature)

Eliminating the Electoral College - Violates a Norm (Dilutes power of individual states in favor of tyranny of majority)

Adding DC as a state - violates a norm (Makes the Capital of the US a state, which permits it more power than any other state).

Each of the above norms are norms bc they fix the structure of the Gvt. They make sure that every force in the Fed Gvt is opposed by an equal force. Mitch McConnell outplaying the Dems doesn’t undermine the system, it’s how the system was designed to work. Democrats are just too fricking emotional and stupid to see it. They frankly have no business appointing Supreme Court justices because they literally think that the constitution is there to protect against hurt feelings, instead of being there to be a fricking bedrock check against their antics. They are too stupid to understand the constitution, and they DGAF about it.

If you can’t see that, I’m not the one who is stupid.