Subj : Notorious RBG - RIP
To : Lee Lofaso
From : Chuck Pierson
Date : Sun Sep 20 2020 06:06 am
Hello, Lee Lofaso - Charles Pierson.
On 9/19/20 11:16 AM you wrote:
>> Cancer sucks. I don't care where you are on the political spectrum.
> Four cancers. All at the same time. Pancreatic cancer was the one
> that finally did her in. Surprised she lasted as long as she did.
Cancer survival or not is an odd creature for sure.
>> Generally, this close to an election, the trend was to wait until
>> after to fill the seat.
> Not for Moscow Mitch. Trump will nominate a new justice. Moscow
> Mitch will grant him/her a hearing, and a vote. The only question
> being will this be before, or after, the election. Remember what
> Moscow Mitch did in 2016. He invoked "The Biden Rule" - a rule of
> his own creation. Said he would not allow the president to seat a
> new justice on the USSC during an election year. Why? Because "the
> American people" had to have a say. Remember, it was an election
> year.
Actually, there's a thing called the Thurmond rule, which has been used
inconsistently.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurmond_rule
> Well, guess what? This is 2020. Another election year. Do you think
> Moscow Mitch is going to invoke his own made-up rule in order to
> deny his own president the right to nominate a justice to the USSC?
There was an article I read the other day that talked about this. I
wish I could find it now. It showed a while lot of inconsistency from
both parties on how this sort of situation has been handled in the past.
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