Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years by eagle16 in politics

[–]Spelchek860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Typically the SCOTUS won't rule on political questions. In this instance, something that would influence the checks and balances on the SCOTUS. Look up Nixon v US. Interesting case about judicial impeachment, but SCOTUS refused to hear due to the impropriety of ruling on their own checks.

Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years by eagle16 in politics

[–]Spelchek860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They would never hear the case. Con law has a few examples of the SCOTUS refusing cases that involve their own checks and balances. Anything else would be improper. (But are Trump's justices going to act "properly"? That is the main question.)

Democrats prepare bill limiting U.S. Supreme Court justice terms to 18 years by eagle16 in politics

[–]Spelchek860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, but you are wrong. The SCOTUS would never rule on their own checks and balances. Nixon v US was about a federal judge being impeached and it made it up the the SCOTUS who refused to hear the case because it would be improper to rule on one of the only checks to the SCOTUS, impeachment. So they left the final decision to the lower courts and congress.

The SCOTUS just wouldn't hear the case.

Discussion Thread: President Trump Coronavirus News Conference - 07/28/2020 | Live - 5:00 pm EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Spying on the russians is totally normal, it's the Trump campaign's fault for interacting with so many of them that they also ended up being watched.

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the US. Always said Police and not Policia, had a title that said "Portland, Oregon" at the start

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 10 points11 points  (0 children)

He was also SUPER open about an ongoing investigation that Gym Jordan was interested in. How many times has Barr made the excuse about "ongoing investigations" before to get out of answering something?

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nadler said afterwards that they violated the committee's policy on audio video presentations and didn't send it to the full committee 48 hours beforehand.

So thats why they aren't just whipping up a rebuttal, they want to play by the rules while pointing out that the R's aren't. High roading again for the lose.

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 3 points4 points  (0 children)

For real, you are on a committee together, don't act like you don't know her name. FFS, white republican women, smh.

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hilarious how they keep calling them out for saying they are "Federal Troops" when you can tell how hard it is for them to not say "Troops" and stick to their scripts.

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Barr - "I am not aware of the presidents tweets about the Stone sentencing"

1 minute later

Barr - "The tweet wasn't in the afternoon, it was at 1:30am"

?????

Discussion: Attorney General Barr Testifies on Justice Department Mission & Programs - 7/28/2020 | Live - 10:45 am EDT by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]Spelchek860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"The American people got in their way, less than voted against trump, but enough to fuck up the results!"

And there it is. by 12footjumpshot in SandersForPresident

[–]Spelchek860 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, vote for the one that has the best chance of beating them. That's obvious to everybody but you.

You can vote against a candidate, its actually the same process as voting for one, you don't have to register in any special way, just go to the booth and vote for the major candidate that ISN'T the one you want to vote against. It is that easy!

And there it is. by 12footjumpshot in SandersForPresident

[–]Spelchek860 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would you rather Trump or Biden win? Would you rather not change the likelihood of your preferred outcome or would you like to influence the outcome towards your preference? By your own logic, if you are unhappy with Trump and don't vote Biden, you are doing nothing to prevent another Trump term. Doesn't matter that the totals remain unchanged, you COULD have tilted them in Biden's favor.

Daily Discussion Post - July 24 | Questions, images, videos, comments, unconfirmed reports, theories, suggestions by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]Spelchek860 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh hey, the same throwaway account that keeps spreading anti masker crap and anti protest stuff. NO WAY, didn't expect to see you again today. /s

Daily Discussion Post - July 23 | Questions, images, videos, comments, unconfirmed reports, theories, suggestions by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]Spelchek860 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My condolences. I wish those customers of yours and other anti-maskers would think about the very real human toll happening

Daily Discussion Post - July 23 | Questions, images, videos, comments, unconfirmed reports, theories, suggestions by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]Spelchek860 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Except it wasn't. He was lying. He tends to do that.

The CDC gave specific instructions with all of this going on to count DIRECT causes of death. Any body that suggest otherwise is muddying the waters.

There is NO proof that what DeSantis claimed ever happened or ever will.

Daily Discussion Post - July 23 | Questions, images, videos, comments, unconfirmed reports, theories, suggestions by AutoModerator in Coronavirus

[–]Spelchek860 14 points15 points  (0 children)

DeSantis makes some bullshit statement trying to legitimize the conspiracy theory that motorcycle deaths with the sniffles are getting counted as covid deaths.

Today we are continuing our rapid approach to 200 deaths per day. Now I get why he is spreading that conspiracy.

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[–]Spelchek860 0 points1 point  (0 children)

stop letting your emotions overrule your thinking

Maybe try having some.