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South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told "Fox News Sunday" that he is "hell-bent" on ensuring that the next Supreme Court vacancy -- whether it is ailing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's seat or otherwise -- is filled by a conservative, regardless of what outrage follows from the left.
Graham, the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emphasized that former Democratic Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid eliminated the Senate filibuster for federal appellate judicial nominees in 2013. Republicans later retaliated by eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court appointments, meaning that a simple majority -- rather than a 60-vote supermajority -- is sufficient to confirm new Supreme Court nominees.
"My Democratic colleagues felt when they were in charge we should confirm judges by a majority vote," Graham told Fox News' Chris Wallace. "They changed the rules to accommodate President Obama. They tried to stack the court. They never thought [Hillary] Clinton would lose. So what you’re gonna have is Harry Reid’s and Chuck Schumer’s desire to stack the court on their Democratic watch has come back to haunt them.
"If there is an opening, whether it’s Ginsburg or anybody else, I will urge the president to nominate a qualified conservative and hopefully those people will get through – that person will get through," Graham continued. "And I expect it to be along party lines, and this is what happens when you change the rules. This has come back to bite ' em. I predicted it would. And we’ll see. I hope Justice Ginsburg serves for a long time. But if there’s an opening on this court, I’m going to be hell-bent to put a conservative to replace whoever steps down for whatever reason."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...rmits-in-exchange-for-border-wall-graham-says
This POS has had the image of a "reasonable" conservative for far too long.
Without getting lost on the actual history of the filibuster debacle (where Republicans refused to vote for any judicial nominees because they were Obama's), this man just drips with a desire to be as malicious as he possibly can to the other side of the country as possible - it has nothing to do with what's right for the country.
He is a scumbag for his open glee at the thought of Ginsburg dying while Trump is on the bench, so he can pack the court with more wackos.
Hey, Lindsey, you know the Democrats can always change the rules for the size of the court if you do that, right? Probably not.
Isn't this the guy that called Trump a "jackass" said he should "go to hell!", and that Trump would "destroy the Republican party, and we'd deserve it!"?. And now here he is after all the things he's said about him, throwing away his public dignity to become another one of Trump's Island of Misfit Toys.
I hope that of all the seats that flip to the Democrats in 2020, his is the upset of the night.
LOL... "Kettle, meet pot".
Have you forgotten the Kavenaugh debacle - he was too conservative and you tried to destroy him. Karma bites. Your treatment of Kavenaugh got additional seats in the Senate, and now Republicans have a majority so they really don't need democrat votes at all. Cry me a river.
Allow me to punch your outrage card. Oh. It's full again...
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tr...rmits-in-exchange-for-border-wall-graham-says
This POS has had the image of a "reasonable" conservative for far too long.
Without getting lost on the actual history of the filibuster debacle (where Republicans refused to vote for any judicial nominees because they were Obama's), this man just drips with a desire to be as malicious as he possibly can to the other side of the country as possible - it has nothing to do with what's right for the country.
He is a scumbag for his open glee at the thought of Ginsburg dying while Trump is on the bench, so he can pack the court with more wackos.
Hey, Lindsey, you know the Democrats can always change the rules for the size of the court if you do that, right? Probably not.
Isn't this the guy that called Trump a "jackass" said he should "go to hell!", and that Trump would "destroy the Republican party, and we'd deserve it!"?. And now here he is after all the things he's said about him, throwing away his public dignity to become another one of Trump's Island of Misfit Toys.
I hope that of all the seats that flip to the Democrats in 2020, his is the upset of the night.
And your nonsense earned us a landslide victory in the House, which has resulted Republicans having to deal with a Democratic party that can't be pushed around anymore, so you can forget the vanity wall ever happening.LOL... "Kettle, meet pot".
Have you forgotten the Kavenaugh debacle - he was too conservative and you tried to destroy him. Karma bites. Your treatment of Kavenaugh got additional seats in the Senate, and now Republicans have a majority so they really don't need democrat votes at all. Cry me a river.
Allow me to punch your outrage card. Oh. It's full again...
The OP should do some research on Harry Reid and the nuclear option.
The smile on that POS face because a justice is dying makes me sick, and it's clear that it's about nothing but political strike back.What are you going on about? There is nothing malicious going on nor was there a demonstrated glee. You're making up a bunch of stupid crap in an attempt to justify your tantrum. I would expect Dems to do the very same thing if they were in the same seat.
Get over yourself.
What are you going on about? There is nothing malicious going on nor was there a demonstrated glee. You're making up a bunch of stupid crap in an attempt to justify your tantrum. I would expect Dems to do the very same thing if they were in the same seat.
Get over yourself.
LOL... "Kettle, meet pot".
Have you forgotten the Kavenaugh debacle - he was too conservative and you tried to destroy him. Karma bites. Your treatment of Kavenaugh got additional seats in the Senate, and now Republicans have a majority so they really don't need democrat votes at all. Cry me a river.
Allow me to punch your outrage card. Oh. It's full again...
Like I said, he's just a bootlicker that appears to have self-respect, whatsoever.The Lindsey Graham before his fellow Musketeer John McCain passed.....
SC’s Lindsey Graham among least popular senators, new poll says
The Lindsey Graham after fellow Musketeer John McCain passed.....
Why is Lindsey Graham acting like this?
He doesn't want Trump to primary him in 2020, so he's hopped aboard the Trump Train. As a reward, he's now GOP Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
For Graham, it's now all about his personal political survival and climbing the power tree. Tries to play the "good cop/bad cop" con game, but people now know better.
#failing
Like I said, he's just a bootlicker that appears to have self-respect, whatsoever.
If I said the things about Trump that Graham has said (which I have), only to go and lick his boots publicly, I'd never show my face in public again after I was out of politics.
Let's face it, conservatives judges aren't interested in freedom or upholding the constitution. The conservative judges voted in favor of Texas' anti-sodomy law where a gay man was arrested for sex in his own home. Three conservative judges voted to support that law, including Scalia.
Conservatives just want to turn America into a theocracy with school prayer, businesses denying LGBTQ business and making abortion illegal.
That's their big dream...illegal abortions. In other words, throwing people into prison who don't agree with them. Oh, and corporations are people.
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