This seems like a good day for Sotomayor and/or Kagan to say "I can no longer work with colleagues who are using their positions of power to undermine the greatest constitutional republic the world has ever known. I am resigning now so that the President can find someone else who can stomach this."
Thing is, now is a good time for one or both of them to retire anyway and be replaced by someone far younger while Dems have the votes. And today calls for a bigger reaction than “I dissent.”
With Menendez at trial, Democrats are effectively down one senator. Manchin has already said he would not vote for any judicial nominee that didn't also have one Republican vote. In other words, Democrats could not confirm replacements on a party-line vote.
yeah, no
take the next couple of days off, head to the woods or the mountains or whatever by yourself, and have a long think
'cause clearly you haven't thought this through
And there will be a lame duck session.
I go back and forth between thinking that people not believing that a Dem president and a Dem majority Senate could get a confirmation is weird - and thinking that of course non-experts aren't going to realize which normal stuff no longer applies.
Replacing a justice who has suddenly passed away is different from replacing a justice who has calculatedly retired to keep the seat in the hands of her party. In other words, if you're going to pull clever bullshit like that, you better be 100% positive it's going to work.
