Posted: Jun 26, 2018 11:51 pm
Wasn't sure whether to put this one here or in the Trump thread but it looks Fuckhead Gopherface, I mean, Mitch McConnell's unprecedented blocking of a judge to fill Scalia's seat in the SCOTUS has borne poisonous fruit;
Two years after the heist of the century
Two years after the heist of the century
I tend to think of this story as a scandal that’s never really fully been appreciated as one. Just after the election, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that Senate Republicans’ treatment of a qualified, moderate jurist was effectively a political crime. A Supreme Court seat, the Oregon senator argued, was “stolen from the Obama administration and the construct of our Constitution. And it’s being delivered to an administration that has no right to fill it.” The American people, Merkley added, need to “understand that this is the theft of the court.”
To appreciate the consequences of that theft, look no further than the growing list of 5-4 rulings that continue to delight the right.