When we heard Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed*, we didn't think the GOP would try to confirm a new judge and our gut told us they shouldn't. But within hours Mitch McConnell declared the senate would vote on RBG's replacement before the election. Senator McConnel ain't called Cocaine Mitch for nothing, folks.
Here we are predicting the ACB confirmation battle would end not with a bang but a whimper. It wasn't possible for the Dems to top the Brett Kavanaugh fiasco, the laws of physics just won't allow it. When Will Stroock says something will happen it is because that thing will happen.
Honestly the ACB confirmation didn't even end in a whimper. When Justice Kavanaugh was conformed, a coven of shrieking, un-fuckable harpies took over the senate gallery. Even after the Capital Police removed them, these lovely ladies moaned and wailed and banged on the gallery doors like the feminist un-dead. These gals must have great home lives.
Bork, Thomas, Estrada, the Kavanaugh circus... When Mitch McConnel said Harry Reid would regret eliminating the judicial filibuster for lower court nominees, he wasn't kidding. The ACB nomination and confirmation was an act of revenge, an act of comeuppance.
After thirty years of Supreme Court confirmation battles from Robert Bork to Amy Coney Barrett, the war's over, McConnell dropped the big one. Oh, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 82. We wonder who Trump will nominate to replace him.
*Over our first late night Arturo Fuente and glass of Shackleton in a month.
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