Ernst breaks promise on Supreme Court nominees because she says Democrats are mean

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By Josh Israel -September 25, 2020 4:01 PM

Iowa GOP Sen. Joni Ernst suggested that the public wants the Senate to rush through a Trump nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) blamed Democrats on Friday for her flip-flop on rushing through Supreme Court nominees close to a presidential election.

At a campaign stop in Grimes, Iowa, Ernst explained her sudden change of mind: "What I'm hearing from Iowans is just that they've heard that (Senate Minority Leader) Chuck Schumer has made some pretty big threats months ago, even before any of this came up. And so they see this as a way to push back against the radicalization of our Supreme Court."

The court already has a Republican-appointed conservative majority.

Pressed about her apparent hypocrisy, Ernst suggested that it is OK because, she insisted, Democrats would do the same if they were in control. "What they're hearing from Democrats is that they will pack the court," she said of her constituents. "They'll get rid of the Senate filibuster. And so, you cannot tell me that Democrats would not be doing the same thing right now, and none of them deny that. None of them will deny it."

Ernst said Monday that she would back Donald Trump's scheme to ram through a nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last week. "Once the president puts forward his nominee for the Supreme Court, I will carry out my duty—as a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee—to evaluate the nominee for our nation's highest court," she wrote in a statement.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/joni-ernst-supreme-court-donald-trump-nominee-chuck-schumer/

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Poll after poll has shown most Americans do not want Trump to fill Ginsburg's seat unless he wins reelection in November. Ginsburg's dying wish was that her replacement should be chosen by the next president. A poll conducted Sept. 21-24 found that, by a nearly 20-point margin, voters want those wishes honored.

And in Iowa, polls have also shown that voters don't want Ernst to still be in the Senate come January. According to RealClear Politics' polling average, she is trailing Democrat Theresa Greenfield by 2.6% five weeks before the election. This makes her even less popular in the state than Trump, who is currently polling at dead even with Joe Biden in the state.

A spokesperson for Ernst did not immediately respond to an inquiry for this story.


Your still an enabling POS to a traitor you have over 204,000 deaths on your hands, you are a traitor to the Constitution, you voted for the Federalist Society Gorsuch and you backed another POS of the Federalist Society that lied during the hearings, you know the "guy" pass a beer ....................FU.....................

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[spanone]

1. hey ernst, it's called hyper hypocrisy and you are the poster child.

[bullimiami]

2. No.She's just a lying hypocrite. No surprise there.

[Midnight Writer]

3. Isn't this the candidate who said she was going to Washington to cut off liberal's balls?

[FakeNoose]

4. Now the question is ... WHO bought her off?

Is she on Pootie's payroll now? Let's ask Moscow Mitch.

[JDC]

5. She's a power hungry, lying asshole.

As her constituents continue to contract C-19 and die she plays politics as much as any of 'em. F her

[lame54]

6. She cut the balls off of that promise

[SWBTATTReg]

7. She a thug, plain and simple, and doesn't listen to the majority of what Americans want. Over 65%

don't want a nominee until after the elections. Period.

In what world will the republicans pay attention to what voters want? Certainly not of this world it seems like. It's amazing that they make up facts to support their platform or vice versa. This party should no longer be allowed to operate in this Country, as they only seem to represent the 1%ers and no one else. They seem to only represent 'conservatives' (the word 'conservative' is a lie too, they only claim to be conservative, when in fact they are extremists that run roughshod over everyone else's rights, simply because they believe in something else (or 'fake' believing it, simply to win office for the 1%ers)).

[madaboutharry]

8. She is a stupid ass.

Seriously, the woman is a old fashion stupid. She is an embarrassment.

[Sogo]

9. Poor Joni....

She's never had an original thought in her head and only parrots the R talking points and votes the party line. She is a bought and paid-for Koch Brothers commodity and will be voted out this November!

[Zambero]

10. Time for Iowa's "mean" voters to show Ernst the door

No cutesy breadbag farm girl stuff for this go-round. Do-nothing back benchers who break promises will ultimately reap what they sow, agriculturally speaking.

[GeorgeGist]

11. I hope the Democrats crush her like the loathsome b

ug ...she is.