AK Senator Murkowski said today she won't confirm a new justice until after inauguration day

[steve2470]

Alaska's @lisamurkowski said today she won't confirm a new SCOTUS justice until after the inauguration day. Fair is fair, she says. My colleague @kcgrove will have a story shortly.

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so we shall see if she holds to that statement.....

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

1. Yeah, right, Lisa.

Mitch says jump and you'll fucking jump.

[JI7]

5. Murkowski has been more independent than Collins. Instead of attacking her

we should encourage it.

[IronLionZion]

33. Collins needs to lose badly this year nt

[Claustrum]

2. Lets see if she will buckle under pressure.

It's easy to say it as a "theory". It's hard when the republican party is breathing down your neck. Not everyone is John McCain.

[New Breed Leader]

3. I don't believe you. Liar.

[demtenjeep]

4. lets see

how can #fatdonnie and turtle will persuade her

[uponit7771]

6. That leaves Romney and he's iffy ... just damn, damn, damn, damn

[In It to Win It]

7. 1 down, 3 to go

[mysteryowl]

41. So, is it a total of 4?

We can't forget that we have a couple Dem Senators that vote with repukes too, which will affect the count.

[AkFemDem]

8. She voted against Kavenaugh.

There’s precedence for her bucking republican pressure. I hope she does this time too... but she’s not enough is she? How many need to agree not to vote before inauguration for it to work?

[mvd]

9. Good

That is at least one. I hope they respect Ginsburg’s wishes, buy the Repukes don’t have any human decency.

[MiniMe]

10. Unfortunately, Mitch and Donald don't need her.

[Tom Traubert]

22. But Collins will do the same.

She needs to if wants to have even an ice cube’s chance in hell of holding her Senate seat (and it won’t work). And I can see Romney doing the same thing. We have to hold out a little hope.

[AdamGG]

36. The $100 million quesstion is what will Collins do when she's a lame duck

between election day and January

[quakerboy]

42. Even if all that is true

Even if romney, murkowsky and collins all hold out.. that makes it 50-50 and pence decides it.

However.. given that at this point their most realistic plan for success involves having the supreme court completely stacked and then overriding the vote to deny bidens victory.. why wouldnt they just offer to do the same for collins, thus negating her need to legitimately win, and removing any reason for her to even pretend to be on the fence?

[Tom Traubert]

43. Cory Gardner is I trouble in CO too.

Hickenlooper is up in polling by double digits. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/colorado/. I don’t think Cory Garner can support the filling of the vacancy on SCOTUS. Grassley previously has said that he wouldn’t fill a vacancy in an election year. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/08/supreme-court-ruth-bader-ginsburg-mcconnell-murkowski-grassley.html. Whether his tune now is going to be an issue for him. I’m not sure this will even get out of Committee until after the election. What happens in a lame duck Senate if we are lucky enough to take the majority may be an issue. But it also will have lasting percussions for the Republican Party forward.

This obviously does change the dynamic of the upcoming election, and will GOTV for both major parties.

[RockRaven]

11. It's one thing to answer a hypothetical, a different thing to stick to it under pressure irl.

I'm not counting on this until she actually does it.

That said, if 4-5 GOP Senators could be convinced that this was the only way to avoid Biden expanding SCOTUS, maybe it will prove to be the start of something.

[Raven123]

17. True, but everyone knew this was a realistic possibility, given RBG's health.

It would be a careless remark. Doesn’t sound like Murkowski.

[brush]

12. Now watch Collins say the same thing to try to save her own behind.

[bluestarone]

13. I know they won't BUT

Out of RESPECT for RBG. the rethugs should NOT vote until AFTER election!

[AZ8theist]

38. HA! Good luck with that!!

[pat_k]

14. Need 3 more. Thoughts? Romney? Collins? Kyl? Paul?

[hamsterjill]

15. She always caves. Just like Collins.

Let’s not count on unicorns, okay?

[nsd]

26. Murkowski came out against Kavanaugh.

She's not the same as Collins.

[hamsterjill]

30. And Kavanaugh was confirmed, wasn't he?

Murkowski was safe in her stance.

She will cave.

[Thekaspervote]

16. That's one..hopefully. Imagine that Romney will not agree either

[customerserviceguy]

31. If Trump appoints

a Mormon woman, I can't see Romney going against that.

[Chili]

18. Collins...

would she also not confirm to save her Senate seat? Cuz she's in trouble up there... would it help her campaign if she refused to confirm?

[Codeine]

19. Bull. Fucking. Shit.

She’s a good little Nazi.

[dalton99a]

20. With Murkowski, Collins et al, past performance IS a predictor of future results.

[Buckeyeblue]

21. She knew what was coming. DC is a small town.

I think Collins will say something similar. Maybe Romney. I don't know who else we could count on.

[democrattotheend]

25. IDK if we can count on Romney for this one

He's moderate on some things but very conservative on social issues. He probably wants a conservative in that seat. I'd look more to vulnerable swing state senators like Collins and Gardner.

[democrattotheend]

27. Nevermind, I was wrong

Apparently Romney says he won't vote to confirm anyone before Inauguration Day either. We just need one more...

Good news on the one hand. On the other hand, this will galvanize Republicans, including those who were squeamish about Trump. Scalia's open seat is probably part of why Hillary lost in 2016.

[imanamerican63]

23. But wait until McConnell gives her another bridge to no where?

[AngryOldDem]

24. I take this with a huge grain of salt.

Not exactly a profile in courage.

[Codeine]

28. Indeed.

McTurtle knows where the bodies are buried.

[Drunken Irishman]

29. Murkowski is almost irrelevant at this point.

There's still enough Republicans to confirm a nominee by a simple majority.

Even if Collins defects, that's still 52 Republicans. There'd have to be two more Republicans for it to really become interesting. I don't see two other Republicans out there, even if Grassley said prior to RBG's death that he would not support appointing a new justice during the campaign.

[Mr.Bill]

32. On a positive note,

If the GOP assholes in the Senate pull another Kavanaugh move, It will cost them the Senate.

[bullwinkle428]

34. I remember when she was going to be our "friend" during impeachment.

[Rebl2]

35. I am

beginning to think they knew this was coming. tRump put out a new list of candidates last week. They knew something.

[Hassler]

37. And the pressure should be on all the vulnerable Repugs: Collins,

Lindseed, Tillis, Phony Joni, Gardner, corrupt Georgia, Daines and Martha McSleazy

[BainsBane]

39. with Romney that makes two

How many more do we need?

[SeattleVet]

40. Others are reporting that she said she wouldn't vote to confirm until after Election Day

not the Inauguration.

Leaves her with a lot of slimy wiggle-room.

Meanwhile, McConnell is claiming that tRump's nominee will get a vote on the Senate floor ASAP. The far-right is calling for a tRump appointee to be confirmed very quickly 'to prevent the election from being stolen'.

[UTUSN]

44. K&R

[UTUSN]

45. K&R

[flying-skeleton]

46. Don't trust her because

All it'd take to change her mind is some monetary incentive from #MoscowMitch. Isn't that how it always goes !!