No SCOTUS confirmations in an election year. #MerrickGarland
Just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Spera: "My most fervent wish is that i I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." npr.org/2020/09/18/100…
“The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” McConnell said in 2016. politico.com/story/2016/02/…
Remind them of what they said. Hold them to it.
And if they go ahead anyway, make them pay at the polls.
Lindsey is going to lose his job. If he votes for a nominee, we flood money to @harrisonjaime. If he doesn’t, his own people will take him out for being weak.
Our democracy is under attack because authoritarian populists told people that our elections were rigged. Trump didn’t start those false rumors, Bernie Sanders did. He enabled this assault on our democracy from the very beginning, and we should never let him forget.
He is right about one thing, though, the assault on our democracy has been brewing for decades, and he’s been a part of it since day one of his career.
This is false. He does not have the power to cancel all student debt by executive order, as he has explained multiple times. Repetition of a lie does not make it more true. Also, what can be done by EO can be undone by EO. Try thinking longer term.
This is utterly insane, and it does not represent mainstream Democratic Party thinking in any way. This is dangerous, and every Democratic Member of Congress should condemn this. I will be calling @tedlieu in the morning to make sure he does.
Tanden wrote: "The idea that only CEO contributes to a company's growth and not all employees is really pernicious." newsweek.com/neera-tanden-c…
Fortune, in a tough profile, once described her career as being full of "ethically messy mishaps and public relations gaffes." At least two involve her own father, Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va. chicagotribune.com/business/ct-ep…