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    House decides if there is no electoral college majority? Learned something new. Would it be the new House or the current House?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabad66 View Post
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    House decides if there is no electoral college majority? Learned something new. Would it be the new House or the current House?
    Looks like the answer is 'the new one...but it is open for the outgoing one to try and do it themselves.'

    https://www.theatlantic.com/past/doc.../deadlock2.htm

    Fortunately, the background of the Twentieth Amendment strongly suggests that the loophole left by its language is plugged tight by its history: the whole point of that amendment's provision for the new Congress to convene seventeen days before the new President takes the oath was to prevent a lame duck Congress from selecting the President or Vice President. When history and principle are this clear, the silence of the Constitution's text becomes almost irrelevant. The document should be interpreted to forbid lame duck manipulation of the presidency, although a partisan Congress might decide differently -- and it is anyone's guess how far the courts would go to halt the lame ducks as they tramp across the spirit of the document for their own narrow ends.

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    Oooo Trump gets to appoint another judge. Gonna be some entertainment in the news for the next few weeks
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disoblige View Post
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    Guys, isn't it surreal that there is like ~40 some days until election day?

    It seemed like not too long ago in Nov 2016.

    Definitely a realization how quick time has elapsed... Wow.
    Isn’t that the truth.
    "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    Oooo Trump gets to appoint another judge. Gonna be some entertainment in the news for the next few weeks
    his current picks haven't exactly done his bidding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    his current picks haven't exactly done his bidding.
    What they do is less interesting than watching the lefties lose their minds about the fact that he picked them.
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    guessing who I might be, psychologizing me with your non existent degree.

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    I might have to avoid my social media for the next day or two as I'm expecting an onslaught of weeping over old Ginsy kicking the bucket.

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    Quote Originally Posted by killramos View Post
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    What they do is less interesting than watching the lefties lose their minds about the fact that he picked them.
    lol yup.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    his current picks haven't exactly done his bidding.
    Yea this was the David Pakman argument against trump “we can’t risk losing the courts”

    The conservative cudgel of the Supreme Court never seemed to show up.

    That said, it comes down to hubris, Obama admin asked rbg to step down during his time in office but she was convinced Hilary would win, and so was Obama when he decided not to push Mitch on the vacant seat in 2015.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    I might have to avoid my social media for the next day or two as I'm expecting an onslaught of weeping over old Ginsy kicking the bucket.
    It's well underway. RBG was an impressive person that led an incredible life, but rather than discussing her legacy I've got friends from Britain(!) talking about how they are literally shaking in fear because Trump gets another nom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BerserkerCatSplat View Post
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    It's well underway. RBG was an impressive person that led an incredible life, but rather than discussing her legacy I've got friends from Britain(!) talking about how they are literally shaking in fear because Trump gets another nom.
    those people are suckers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    his current picks haven't exactly done his bidding.
    Well he hasn't really been selecting people to "do his bidding". He has been selecting people to uphold constitutional values.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buster View Post
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    those people are suckers.
    Academia does seem to attract some real drama queens.

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    Going to be very interesting to see what the senators will do, especially those up for election. So far only one republican senator has confirmed she won’t support a vote (Murkowski). 3 more defections/abstains and they won’t be able to confirm. Collins and Romney are possible, and then there is also a potential for Arizona seat to flip within this session assuming they don’t confirm before end of November.

    I still think republicans will be able to ram it through even if they lose the election and do it in the lame duck period, but definitely going to be a close one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by finboy View Post
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    Yea this was the David Pakman argument against trump “we can’t risk losing the courts”

    The conservative cudgel of the Supreme Court never seemed to show up.

    That said, it comes down to hubris, Obama admin asked rbg to step down during his time in office but she was convinced Hilary would win, and so was Obama when he decided not to push Mitch on the vacant seat in 2015.
    You’d have to cite this.

    The dems only controlled the senate for Obama’s first 2 years so she would have had to step down then. Hilary was irrelevant.

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    When does the RBG commemorative Playboy come out? You know I'd buy that.
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    You realize you are talking to the guy who made his own furniture out of salad bowls right?

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    RIP to RBG, but this is an election thread. I don't think the next appointy had anything to do with the election.

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    Trump’s choice on who he nominates and the inevitable battle for confirmation definitely have implications for the election.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabad66 View Post
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    Going to be very interesting to see what the senators will do, especially those up for election. So far only one republican senator has confirmed she won’t support a vote (Murkowski). 3 more defections/abstains and they won’t be able to confirm. Collins and Romney are possible, and then there is also a potential for Arizona seat to flip within this session assuming they don’t confirm before end of November.

    I still think republicans will be able to ram it through even if they lose the election and do it in the lame duck period, but definitely going to be a close one.
    It's pretty obvious to anyone that isn't blind. Republicans have no morals but once they have the votes a few will get hall passes to stand against it. It'll be a 51-49 vote like usual.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pheoxs View Post
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    it's pretty obvious to anyone that isn't blind. politicians have no morals but once they have the votes a few will get hall passes to stand against it. It'll be a 51-49 vote like usual.
    ftfy

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