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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Willravel
It's not about having even partisanship. That's putting a band-aid on the hemorrhage. Actually, it's more like having a hemorrhage in each arm and widening the wound on the left so that you bleed out evenly.
What we need are impartial justices. Really, honestly, and truly impartial justices. I know a few judges in my area who would probably do a damn good job keeping politics out of the Supreme Court, but the real issue is with confirmation. Alito's nomination to replace Sandra Day O'Connor made me want to vomit. Why, on god's green earth, do we allow a president, king of partisanship, to choose a judge to sit on the highest court in the land? It's (pardon my french) fucking stupid.
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Just because a president chooses, doesn't mean it's automatic.
that's the point of the confirmation hearings and being confirmed by congress. there are still CHECKS and BALANCES which is the whole point of the way that everything has been created via the US Constitution. So you're stating that what the framers did was stupid?
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He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present
concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent
of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and
Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the
United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for,
and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest
the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the
President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
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how is it stupid?
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