When Donald Trump the election in November, Republicans and conservatives celebrated the fact that the Supreme Court wouldn’t turn left for a generation. Figuring Donald Trump would appoint only conservative judges was a great thought. Especially, with the vacancy created by Scalia’s mysterious death. But now there are rumblings that the Democrats may try one last trick after the Congress changes after the New Year to ram through Obama’s radical left wing SCOTUS pick Merrick Garland.
One January 3, 2017, the new Congress begins. Remember also that idiot Joe Biden is still president of the Senate, giving the Democrats a majority in the Senate for a few minutes before the newly elected members are sworn in. There are reports that Democrats may use this these few minutes to try and ram through Garland. Don’t put anything past these crooks.
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Is this idea an infeasible fever dream — borne out of pure desperation and blind fury — or an actual viable option against which Senate Republicans must vigilantly guard? I’ve seen lefties on social media kicking around this plot to effectively hijack the Senate as soon as it gavels back into session next year in order to exploit what they believe to be a loophole that would allow Senate Democrats to confirm Merrick Garland before the chamber’s agenda is technically controlled by Mitch McConnell’s Republicans. Via IJR’s Andrew Clark and various liberals who until very recently were wringing their hands about the prospect of a Trump-precipitated constitutional crisis:
It turns out that sometimes openly advocating a constitutional crisis through the breathtaking and illegitimate arrogation of power is just peachy, so long as it’s intended to “save the country from fascists,” as this post from a left-wing fringe site puts it: