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PostSubject: Merrick Garland   Merrick Garland EmptyThu Dec 22, 2016 8:23 am

I realized this morning that the whole Merrick Garland episode illustrates something nefarious, and we didn't even realize it.

Garland is a centrist choice -- recommended by Orrin Hatch and given approval by Mitch McConnell -- nominated for the Supreme Court by Obama way back in March. That far back Hillary was widely expected to win in November.

Yet the Senate refused to even hold a hearing, saying (in an unprecedented move) the next president should appoint a candidate. Why would they do that, if Clinton was likely to win and likely to appoint an even-more-liberal judge?

They must have known, clear back in March, that no matter who the Republicans ended up nominating (March 15th was both "Super Tuesday for the Republicans and the date Garland was nominated) he would win in November, despite the polls, despite the popular election. They were telegraphing to the country that the election would be rigged.
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PostSubject: Re: Merrick Garland   Merrick Garland EmptyThu Dec 22, 2016 9:16 am

I think they were just telegraphing the same message they had been sending for the past eight years: They are a bunch of assholes.
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PostSubject: Re: Merrick Garland   Merrick Garland EmptyThu Dec 22, 2016 9:38 am

NoCo wrote:
They were telegraphing to the country that the election would be rigged.

They were doing nothing of the kind. They were taking a calculated risk that they might somehow pull off a victory. No political party is going to head into a contest announcing that they'll probably lose. They knew that if Clinton did win, they could always push Garland through and deny her the opportunity to select someone more liberal.

Clinton didn't lose because of a rigged election. She lost because of the momentum Trump had in the battleground states. The steady drip of leaks (it doesn't even matter whether they were the result of Russian hacking), the Comey announcement, the 30 year campaign of character assassination, and the Breitbart campaign playbook all worked to undermine Clinton. Trump had the wind at his back.
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PostSubject: Re: Merrick Garland   Merrick Garland EmptyThu Dec 22, 2016 5:37 pm

kilo wrote:
NoCo wrote:
They were telegraphing to the country that the election would be rigged.

They were doing nothing of the kind.  They were taking a calculated risk that they might somehow pull off a victory.

Very naive. They "calculated" the risk all right. Battleground states - Republican by 1%. Three times.
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PostSubject: Re: Merrick Garland   Merrick Garland EmptyThu Dec 22, 2016 6:22 pm

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Battleground states - Republican by 1%. Three times.

I don't see any incongruity there. The electorate is closely divided in those states. That's why they're called "battleground states".

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PostSubject: Re: Merrick Garland   Merrick Garland EmptyTue May 21, 2019 3:37 am

The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed ten years of Trump's financial records.

Trump sued his financial company, Mazars, to keep them from released his taxes.

The DC District Court just ordered Mazars to produce the documents.

Trump is appealing.

The judge on his appeal will be Merrick Garland.
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