Senate Judiciary Chairman Reveals Whether Trump SCOTUS Pick Will Get Confirmed
By Jack Davis
Published September 22, 2020 at 8:04am
In the scorched-earth war that surrounds nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is ready to bring the fire.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday at age 87 ignited a firestorm over the politics and policy of filling her vacant seat. Justices are nominated by a president and confirmed by the Senate.
Democrats have said any nomination should wait until after the election, in hopes that Democratic nominee Joe Biden will win. Many Republicans and President Donald Trump have vowed to move forward quickly.
The ramifications of a conservative justice ascending to the court are vast. Prior to Ginsburg’s death, the court had four-member liberal and conservative wings, with Chief Justice John Roberts often playing the role of swing vote. Replacing Ginsburg, a member of the liberal wing, with a conservative justice would give the court a conservative majority.
High stakes have produced intense rhetoric on the process, and during an appearance Monday on the Fox News show “Hannity,” Graham said he is not backing down.
“It’s pretty obvious that if they want an outcome, they’ll just destroy anybody’s life to keep the seats open,” said the South Carolina Republican, who faces a fight for re-election.
“They said they tried to destroy Brett Kavanaugh so they could fill the seat — they were dumb enough to say that,” Graham said, referencing the campaign of character assassination that Trump’s court nominee endured before his confirmation in 2018. “I’ve seen this movie before. It’s not going to work. It didn’t work with Kavanaugh.”
Graham said the bottom line is that despite apparent defections from Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Republicans can win this showdown.
“We’ve got the votes to confirm Justice Ginsburg’s replacement before the election,” he said. “We’re going to move forward in the committee. We’re going to report the nomination out of the committee to the floor of the United States Senate so we can vote before the election. That’s the constitutional process.”
Although Graham had said in the past that he supported waiting when a court vacancy took place in the final year of a president’s term, he said the outrageous conduct of Democrats out to destroy Kavanaugh forced him to reconsider his position.
“After Kavanaugh, everything changed with me,” the senator said. “They are not going to intimidate me, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell or anybody else.”
He said Democrats can predict any doomsday scenario they want, but he knows what will take place once Trump issues his nomination, which is expected later this week.
“We’re going to have a process that you’ll be proud of. The nominee is going to be supported by every Republican on the Judiciary Committee, and we’ve got the votes to confirm the judge, the justice, on the floor of the Senate before the election,” Graham said. “And that’s what’s coming.”
The senator also issued a defense of his position on Twitter.
“Democrats chose to set in motion rules changes to stack the court at the Circuit level and they chose to try to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s life to keep the Supreme Court seat open,” he said Sunday.
The people charged as caretakers of the Republic have so corrupted themselves they have become bickering children incapable of fulfilling their duties. These self centered narcissists have violated their oaths of office continually to the point that the Constitution has become null and void, the Bill of Rights meaningless, and the standard of living deteriorated especially for the middle class.
Americans will never vote themselves out from under this oppressive fascistic government. The D.C. management team (Deep State) have built a surveillance state complete with a police/military enforcement arm backed up with so many laws and regulations that anyone at any time can be charged with some infraction and arrested.
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The fact is that Christians today hope and pray for anything to save them from pain and suffering even if it's temporary. They hide away from truth, support affirmative action, get abortions, use Christ's claimed sacrifice to justify their sins leaving off repentance, and most of all they are arguing in favor of this machination called the rapture. They would make their God a hypocrite like themselves in so doing but "hey" it's worth a shot ! The God of Biblical Scripture said he is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Sadly, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd century Christians were fed to lions, and murdered by gladiators at Rome. They didn't have a rapture in light of the tribulations that they faced as real Christians not like the milque toast watered down version we witness today.
The last thing coming to "save" the American public is the Senate or the Supreme Court. Both of these entities have known for a very long time that they can weasel word the American people into a comatose state of lethargy and do whatever they wish, ergo the surveillance police state enjoyed by the "FREE" and "BRAVE" today; you know, those wearing face diapers, locked away from their jobs, their friends, and yes, even their useless churches.
"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. "
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