Maybe they could go with mail-in ballots, or drop boxes? /s
With Lee, Tilllis out with Covid and Collins and Murkawoski saying no to a vote before the election. I donāt see how McConnell has the vote. Assuming Collins and Mrukaswoski side with Democrats on procedural votes
Timex
5617
The thing is, multiple people on the Senate judicial committee now have Covid. They kind of canāt proceed until they get better.
I believe the committee hear is schedule for Oct 12, which is sort of at the tail end of the quarantine period. If the Democrat can force a 12-12 vote tie on sending her to the full senate, I believe McConnell can still have a full senate vote for her. The situation is close enough that I hope the Dems have their best parlimentaries working on this full time.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but what aside from common decency and caring for their fellow human beings (which we know is in short supply in some corners), what actual mechanism is preventing those with positive results from showing up for a vote?
Quaro
5620
Thereās nothing stopping them from doing it later in November.
Canuck
5621
If Biden wins the election convincingly in November (including the Senate), then the GOP going ahead later in the year and putting in a conservative judge will be all the cover Biden needs to stack the courts.
I donāt know that it makes the slightest bit of difference whether they confirm a justice a couple of weeks before an election Trump is losing, or a couple of weeks after an election he has lost.
Menzo
5623
McConnell will Weekend at Bernies his sick colleagues to get this woman confirmed. Itās going to happen. He doesnāt care about what itāll look like if that means doing it after the election.
Alito and Thomas are mad that SCOTUS denied cert in a challenge to Obergefell brought byā¦Kim Davis.
See, conservatives are all about getting government off the backs of the people. Letās not have government intrude into our personal lives!
To be fair to them, they did formally concur with the denial. If weāre going to have reactionary arseholes on the court, Iād rather they revealed their arseholiness obiter than in findings.
Presumably because they didnāt have the votes.
The more I learn about her, the more she seems like she might actually be a nut.
KevinC
5630
She might be, People of Praise seems pretty creepy to me. I see some similarities to the Mormonism I was raised in, although it seems like itās up another notch or two on the culty scale (referring mostly to the āheadā stuff).
Nevertheless sheās going to be the next justice, so on to expanding the Court and whatever else we need to do to safeguard people in this country.
Diddums
5632
You are going to be shocked by how many evangelical sermons revolve around Ephesians 5:22.
I read The Guardian article and it sounded like slightly more conservative, but not so far off run-of-the-mill evangelicalism to me*. I mean, there were no sister-wives.
*If you want to consider evangelicals in general cultists, that would be harsh but fair.
ShivaX
5633
What if I just consider the majority of them to be?
Could be, but the aura of secrecy isnāt encouraging.
I sincerely donāt understand what is in this article that is getting the Guardian so breathless, or you guys here quite so riled up.
- Law student lives in group home!
- May have met husband there!
- Religious community includes oaths as part of practices!
- Religious community has "well-developed courtship and marriage traditionsā!
- Critics have been critical of religious community!
- Religious community modified their public online resources when member becomes most talked-about person in the country!
I LOVE this paragraph, in which the reporter canāt understand why Amy Coney Barrett doesnāt appear to adhere to the invented version of traditional family structure that she has invented in her head:
The group has been criticized by some former members for adhering to a strict authoritarian structure, including the expectation that women are subordinate to their husbands, who are considered their āheadsā. The notion marks a contrast to what is known about Barrettās own life. While she is the mother of seven ā including two children the Barretts adopted from Haiti ā Barrett has publicly praised her husband for taking a lead in the household. When she accepted Donald Trumpās nomination, Barrett thanked her husband and commented that her children believed he was the better cook of the two.
In other words, somehow Amy Coney Barrett and her husband missed the memo that Ephesians 5 MUST mean that the woman does all the housework and cooking! Theyāre totally failing to have the caveman attitudes we expect them to have! She even skipped being barefoot and pregnant for TWO of the seven kids in that family! Something doesnāt add up here, but it canāt be our blinkered assumptions about Barrett and her religious community!
