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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

Not fair. MANY MANY of us are just as D as you. This is R v. D, not Catholic v. something else.

+1. My whole family is Catholic and they're all Democrats. And my FIL is on the parish council at his Catholic church and he's also a hardcore Democrat. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox tend to vote D.

So the kind of Catholics like Joe and Nancy, who don't really believe the teachings?

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Man, this thread is so depressing....losing Ginsburg and Scalia is the final end to an era. Both brilliant, with absolutely different perspectives on the same matter were great friends.

We have lost so much in their service and model of what was/could be in their passing.

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Anonymous wrote:I think if Trump and McConnell manage to ram through a nominee, this could seriously backfire on them. This would only energize the Democrats and they aren’ going to win any more Republican votes.

Filling this seat is worth more than the 2020 election. The GOP can lock up SCOTUS for a generation if we play our cards right.

I'm going to keep repeating this. That's not how this is supposed to work!

Not how what is supposed to work? Democrat SCOTUS justices have been forcing MASSIVE social and economic changes on the nation for 90 years. Is THAT how it is supposed to work?

No, it's not! But that doesn't mean we just keep escalating!

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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

It's interesting because many Christians (at least in Oklahoma, where I'm from) don't believe Catholics are Christian.

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Anonymous wrote:Give me a break... if the dems held the senate they would ABSOLUTELY confirm a new SC judge. Stop with the drama.

Merrick Garland hypocrite.

The dems weren’t the ones who made that rule up in 2016. So why don’t the republicans stand by their rule from four years ago?

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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

Not fair. MANY MANY of us are just as D as you. This is R v. D, not Catholic v. something else.

+1. My whole family is Catholic and they're all Democrats. And my FIL is on the parish council at his Catholic church and he's also a hardcore Democrat. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox tend to vote D.

NP. Curious - how do you reconcile being pro-choice with being Catholic?

Not that poster, but it's easy. Don't believe in abortion, don't have one. Who said you have to regulate other people's bodies?

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Anonymous wrote:Biden should nominate Obama.

No. This is an awful idea. Obama is certainly qualified and its been done before (Taft) but this would be politically stupid.

Yes, his adherence to the Constitution while in office shows that he knows it so well...

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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

Not fair. MANY MANY of us are just as D as you. This is R v. D, not Catholic v. something else.

+1. My whole family is Catholic and they're all Democrats. And my FIL is on the parish council at his Catholic church and he's also a hardcore Democrat. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox tend to vote D.

So the kind of Catholics like Joe and Nancy, who don't really believe the teachings?

FFS. My friend was given explicit permission by her trad priest to vote for Biden. Not going to go into how that's a thing in Catholicism (I left for a reason), but Catholics aren't obligated to vote R and they're not obligated to impose their religion on the entire country. Biden is a deeply devout man.

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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

Not fair. MANY MANY of us are just as D as you. This is R v. D, not Catholic v. something else.

+1. My whole family is Catholic and they're all Democrats. And my FIL is on the parish council at his Catholic church and he's also a hardcore Democrat. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox tend to vote D.

NP. Curious - how do you reconcile being pro-choice with being Catholic?

PP. I'm not Catholic anymore (converted to Eastern Orthodoxy) and I do consider myself pro-life. I vote Democrat because at this point I disagree with almost everything else the Republicans stand for. Especially after the last four years. And I think that as a PP said, a better social safety net, maternity leave, etc will do more to help women and decrease abortions than reversing Roe v Wade.

For what it's worth, one man I know who is in his late 70s is a hardcore Trump supporter but he's always been pro-choice because he remembers what it was like before 1973 and doesn't want to go back to that.

PP here. Thanks for taking the time to explain your thoughts. I’m exactly the opposite - a pro-choice Trump voter. I used to vote strictly Democrat because I was so worried about Roe v Wade, but then realized I couldn’t just be a one-issue voter. And that’s pretty much all I agree with the Dems about these days. So I am now a moderate conservative.

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Anonymous wrote:Man, this thread is so depressing....losing Ginsburg and Scalia is the final end to an era. Both brilliant, with absolutely different perspectives on the same matter were great friends.

We have lost so much in their service and model of what was/could be in their passing.

It really does not interest me in the least if appointed and elected individuals are friends.

Either your decisions help people or they don't.

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Anonymous wrote:If they win Democrats must pack the court.

?? So as long as Democrats control the court, it is OK, no matter the means?

Republicans show no respect for norms. They have no limits. Zero. The norms are falling away day by day. Not interested in having an extreme right wing Supreme Court so Democrats can say they took the high road. That is just pure stupidity in this environment.

The Constitution does not specify the number of justices, but the law must be changed. GOTV, take the Senate.

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Anonymous wrote:They won’t vote on her replacement until AFTER the election. Trump wants to use this to increase his chances of winning and McConnell does not want to further burden vulnerable Senators.

Well McConnell has already announced the opposite.

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Anonymous wrote:Speculation that Amy Coney Barrett will be trumps pick. Antiabortion and very Catholic.

What’s with the GOP obsession with Catholics on the court?

Pro-life stuff?

Catholic Church’s obsession with sex and with controlling women’s bodies.

Not fair. MANY MANY of us are just as D as you. This is R v. D, not Catholic v. something else.

+1. My whole family is Catholic and they're all Democrats. And my FIL is on the parish council at his Catholic church and he's also a hardcore Democrat. Catholics and Eastern Orthodox tend to vote D.

NP. Curious - how do you reconcile being pro-choice with being Catholic?

PP. I'm not Catholic anymore (converted to Eastern Orthodoxy) and I do consider myself pro-life. I vote Democrat because at this point I disagree with almost everything else the Republicans stand for. Especially after the last four years. And I think that as a PP said, a better social safety net, maternity leave, etc will do more to help women and decrease abortions than reversing Roe v Wade.

For what it's worth, one man I know who is in his late 70s is a hardcore Trump supporter but he's always been pro-choice because he remembers what it was like before 1973 and doesn't want to go back to that.

PP here. Thanks for taking the time to explain your thoughts. I’m exactly the opposite - a pro-choice Trump voter. I used to vote strictly Democrat because I was so worried about Roe v Wade, but then realized I couldn’t just be a one-issue voter. And that’s pretty much all I agree with the Dems about these days. So I am now a moderate conservative.

Trump supporters are neither moderate nor conservative, no matter how much that feels good to tell yourself.

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Help flip the Senate.

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Anonymous wrote:https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/410686-grassley-says-judiciary-panel-wouldnt-consider-supreme-court-nominee-in

Grassley has already said that he would not consider a SC justice nomination in 2020. So have Murkowski, Collins and Romney. Unless McConnell can pressure these four to change their minds, they have all publicly said that they would not vote to fill a SC seat in 2020. And they have all said so in the last few months.

For them to show such character would give me hope