'We're going to fill it': Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy

[RandySF]

Senate Republicans are quietly beginning to contemplate the possibility of an election-year confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s hospitalization this week and the looming end of the Supreme Court’s term raise the prospect of yet another prized vacancy for President Donald Trump. And if there is a surprise opening or retirement in the months before the presidential election, GOP senators plan to act on it, despite denying President Barack Obama a Supreme Court seat in an election year.

Republicans say they wish Ginsburg a swift recovery and have no inside knowledge of a retirement but are prepared to move if a vacancy presents itself.

“We’re going to fill it” if there is one, said Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 GOP leader. “With Justice Scalia ... people might not have thought he was the one, because he wasn’t the oldest at the time. You just never know.”




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/08/republicans-ready-supreme-court-vacancy-243574

[northoftheborder]

1. A bunch of buzzards circling....

Disgusting.

[jimfields33]

2. It reads like the onion

So ghoulish. I know they didn’t let president Obama pick replacement because they had a republican senate. But paybacks will happen when a republican president has a democratic senate.

[0rganism]

3. if i were Clarence Thomas I'd be planning to retire by July

get some fresh young fascist installed pronto

[Buckeyeblue]

6. That wouldn't surprise me

But without him on the court, his wife probably doesn't have that cush $800K/year job. And I don't think he'd want to miss out on a chance to overturn Roe.

[idziak4ever1234]

4. I bet they don't get 50 votes. Collins is already under the gun

[Amishman]

8. They'll get 50, they would need 4 to defect now instead of just two

They know what is coming in Nov and will cement this in if they can.

We'd have to keep Manchin in line too, which will be an increasing concern once we take the Whitehouse

[FBaggins]

5. The same article runs every time she has a headache

Nothing changes. If there’s an opening in December... the lame duck Senate will fill it even if Trump is a lame duck.

[MoonRiver]

7. Then Biden will have to add a couple of seats to SCOTUS.

And hopefully we'll have a Dem Senate.

[secondwind]

9. Didn't Clarence Thomas want to retire this year?

I bet he gets squeezed out.