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katherineharron

What the loss of RBG means for the economy, Wall Street and Corporate America - CNN - 0 views

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  • Just when you thought 2020 couldn't get any more chaotic, the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg set off a political earthquake that could rattle the fragile economic recovery.
  • At a minimum, the loss of RBG is yet another wild card for investors, CEOs, small business owners and consumers
  • The Supreme Court vacancy is shaking up the previously stable battle for the White House, not to mention control of the US Senate.
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  • We don't see how the parties can reach a stimulus deal in this environment," Jaret Seiberg, policy analyst at the Cowen Washington Research Group, wrote in a note to clients Monday. "Failure to enact the Phase 4 stimulus will damage the recovery."
  • The unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg adds another element of risk to the timing of the [stimulus talks] outcome, and could weigh on the market overall in the near term,"
  • he Dow was down 3%, or around 800 points, during afternoon trading.
  • If -- and this is a big if -- President Donald Trump successfully replaces Ginsburg, it would result in a 6-3 conservative majority in the Supreme Court.
  • "All else equal, it may seem like having a large conservative majority on the court would be positive for business and therefore share prices, because it would reinforce the already antiregulatory and pro-capital tendencies of the Court for the foreseeable future,"
  • Some have argued that the Supreme Court vacancy is a big advantage to Trump because it will fire up his conservative base and, crucially, shift the conservation away from the pandemic.
  • The clearest conclusion we can draw from the Supreme Court vacancy is that it adds yet one more question mark to a year marked by deep uncertainty. And the year isn't over yet.
anonymous

Will the Senate Follow Its Own Precedent? - 1 views

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  • even as it appeared distinctly possible that Senate Republicans would vote anyway to confirm a new justice before the end of the year, regardless of the result of the presidential election in November.
  • adding that it would be a woman
  • he pressed his fellow Republicans to act “without delay.”
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  • Trump released a list of 20 names
  • A successful vote in the Senate would increase the Supreme Court’s conservative majority to six
  • paying their respects to the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court.
  • I think the fastest justice ever confirmed was 47 days, and the average is closer to 70 days
  • they could afford to lose no more than three votes in order to push through a confirmation
  • several key Republican senators are facing uphill battles for re-election that have now been complicated by the prospect of a confirmation vote
  • he is less than enthusiastic about the political implications for his party of a bruising court battle on the eve of the election.
  • who is trailing her Democratic challenger in polls,
  • the next Supreme Court justice should be chosen by the winner of the November election
  • In those surveys he is running well behind Trump’s comfortable margins in the presidential race
  • a consequential vote to confirm a conservative judge could help Graham burnish his conservative bona fides with a wary base
  • support President @realDonaldTrump in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg
  • Graham will have to face down his own comments from 2016, when he argued that a vacancy in the Supreme Court should never be filled in an election year
  • “use my words against me
  • the same standard should apply” as it did in 2016, when Republicans thwarted the nomination of Merrick Garland
  • In-person voting is officially underway
clairemann

Live Stream and Updates: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Honored - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke one final barrier on Friday, becoming the first woman and the first Jewish American to lie in state in the United States Capitol.
  • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke one final barrier on Friday, becoming the first woman and the first Jewish American to lie in state in the United States Capitol.
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      clairemann on 25 Sep 20
       
      The fact that these barriers still exist is mind boggling, but she truly deserves this.
  • Denyce Graves, the mezzo-soprano and a friend of Justice Ginsburg’s, performed “Deep River” and “American Anthem” in tribute to the justice’s love of opera.
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      clairemann on 25 Sep 20
       
      That was beautiful
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  • despite the obstacles she faced in the legal profession as a woman.
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      clairemann on 25 Sep 20
       
      a true trailblazer
  • “Justice did not arrive like a lightening bolt, but rather through dogged persistence, all the days of her life,” said Rabbi Hotlzblatt, whose husband clerked for Justice Ginsburg from 2014 to 2015. “Real change, she said, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”
  • Only about 30 Americans have received the honor of lying in state at the Capitol: presidents, military leaders and members of Congress, all of them men. Rosa Parks, the civil rights icon, is the only other woman granted a similar honor, but as a private citizen, she lay “in honor.”
  • The first viewing slots were reserved for the women serving in Congress; Democratic and Republican women were to gather later on the steps of the Capitol as her coffin is carried out.
  • Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, were notably absent from the proceedings,
    • clairemann
      clairemann on 25 Sep 20
       
      absolutely disgusting. Just shows they have no concept of the barriers RBG broke and her impact on the US.
  • He dropped to the floor before her coffin and did three full push-ups.
  • After Justice Ginsburg saw her first opera — a condensed version of “La Gioconda” in 1944, when she was 11 — she was immediately hooked, becoming the kind of aficionado who went to dress rehearsals, then opening nights and then closing nights, too, for good measure.
  • It was a love she shared with Justice Antonin Scalia, her Supreme Court colleague, friend and ideological antagonist; an opera, “Scalia/Ginsburg,” was written in 2015 about their relationship
  • White House officials and Senate Republicans busied themselves on Friday with preparations of their own to usher in a conservative successor to the Supreme Court with remarkable speed
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      clairemann on 25 Sep 20
       
      The hypocrisy...
  • 6-to-3 conservative majority on the court in reach, Republicans were aiming for a vote before Election Day, just over a month away.
    • clairemann
      clairemann on 25 Sep 20
       
      and to think the prevented a Scalia replacement 200+ days out from the 2016 election!
  • “The chants were appalling, but certainly to be expected when you’re in the heart of the swamp,” she said. “I thought it was an appalling and disrespectful thing to do, as the president honored Justice Ginsburg.”
  • Mr. Trump has angered many supporters of Justice Ginsburg by quickly announcing that he would nominate a new conservative justice to succeed her before the election in November, and by questioning, without evidence, whether her “dying wish” that another president appoint her replacement was real or concocted by top Democrats.
martinelligi

'You Would Do the Same': Graham Is Defiant on Supreme Court Reversal - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • But less than 24 hours after that hypothetical became a reality with the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday, Mr. Graham, now the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, made a complete and brazen reversal. He promised that he would push forward immediately to confirm President Trump’s pick — seemingly unbothered by the obvious conflict between his position four years ago and his stance now.“I am certain if the shoe were on the other foot,” Mr. Graham wrote Monday to Democrats on the judiciary panel, “you would do the same.”
  • , as dozens of senators who held together in 2016 to prevent Mr. Obama from filling a Supreme Court seat now rush to deliver the current president his choice to replace Justice Ginsburg.
  • In the letter to Democrats on Monday, Mr. Graham offered another reason for his new stance, describing it as a matter of fairness to voters, because, “unlike in 2016, President Trump is currently standing for re-election: The people will have a say in his choices.”
anonymous

Romney OKs voting on court nominee, all but assures approval - 0 views

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  • Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said Tuesday he supports voting to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court, all but ensuring President Donald Trump has the backing to push his choice to confirmation over Democratic objections that it’s too close to the November election
  • the Democrats would need four GOP defections to block consideration. Two Republicans have said they oppose taking up a nomination at this time, but no others are in sight
  • one of the quickest confirmation processes in modern times
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  • Conservative senators are pushing for a swift vote before Nov. 3. The Senate Judiciary chairman who will shepherd the nomination through the chamber said Republicans have the support they need for confirmation.
  • Democrats point to hypocrisy in Republicans trying to rush through a pick so close to the election after McConnell led the GOP in refusing to vote on a nominee of President Barack Obama in February 2016, long before that year’s election.
  • The nominee is going to be supported by every Republican in the Judiciary Committee
  • We’ve got the votes to confirm the justice on the floor of the Senate before the election and that’s what’s coming.
  • But he acknowledged the court will shift to become more conservative.
  • Trump told confidants he was “saving” Barrett for Ginsburg’s seat.
  • Barrett has long expressed sympathy with a mode of interpreting the Constitution called originalism, in which justices try to decipher original meanings of texts in deciding cases
  • Biden was appealing to GOP senators to “uphold your constitutional duty, your conscience” and wait until after the election.
  • No nominee has won confirmation so quickly since Sandra Day O’Connor — with no opposition from either party — became the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court in 1981.
  • Trump criticized Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska for opposing a vote before elections. The president warned they would be “very badly hurt” by voters.
katherineharron

What Matters: Pay attention to nightmare election scenarios. One might come true - CNNP... - 1 views

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  • Republicans have shown themselves this week to care not a whit about hypocrisy when there's a Supreme Court justice on the line
  • What they can do, they will do. Just as you have to look at the letter of what's possible to conclude they'll have a new Supreme Court justice on the bench before or soon after Election Day, you should also look to the letter of what's possible when it comes to the presidential election itself.
  • President Donald Trump on Wednesday said a new justice must be installed specifically because there's an election coming. He presumably wants the insurance of an additional conservative on the court.
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  • These are the fringiest nightmare scenarios. But in a time when Trump is willing to call the National Guard to US cities, they're worth considering.
  • And the letter of the law is also that, according to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore, states have the power to take electoral votes back from the voters if there's a question about the result, as they essentially did in Florida in 2000 when they barred the state from conducting a recount so that it could meet a deadline.
  • Disputes over state results: In a year when the President has already repeatedly alleged fraud, albeit without any evidence, delays could be exploited. Gellman points out that in 2000, the court, while it was supposed to be limited to that one instance, essentially deferred to the state over the voters to certify Florida's electors.
  • The Electoral Count Act, written after the 1876 presidential election when there were multiple states with disputed Electoral College results, is full of loopholes and ambiguity. In that case, Congress ultimately agreed to give the White House to the person who led neither the Electoral College nor the popular vote, which in today's America, would be a horrible end-result.
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