The SCOTUS was at 5 conservatives and 4 liberals before RBG's death, which was a fair makeup in representation of the entire country. Now it's 5 and 3. Having already stole Obama's nominee, who was a centrist that many Repubs approved of, Trump should not dennisrhill.home.blog/2020/09/28/tru…
2/ be allowed to steal another by McConnell rushing his nominee through, now with only 29 days (as opposed to eight mos) left before election day and so many having already voted. Having a 6-3 SCOTUS means that it could be decades before another centrist or liberal is even
3/ nominated, and everything will be controlled by a 2/3 majority SCOTUS, having little chance of having a say in future cases. Yes, SCOTUS justices are supposed to be nonpartisan, but the two sides still tend to interpret the law differently as written. Trump wants another
4/ conservative on the SCOTUS, hoping they will declare him the victor in the upcoming election should it get that far. The MAJOR reason McConnell is trying to change the precedent he, himself, set when he refused to even consider Obama's nominee in March 2016 is because one week
5/ after this election, on November 10th, the SCOTUS has agreed to hear arguments on the Affordable Care Act ("ACA"), when they plan to argue that the SCOTUS should either (a) completely wipe out the ACA or (b) remove coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. If you or
6/ someone you know survived hav'g COVID-19, you or they, or both, are now considered to have a pre-exist'g condition, as many, if not most, have lifetime "side effects" of many types but espec'ly of the lungs. With a 6-3 SCOTUS, it's a certainty that the SCOTUS will rule n their
7/ favor and we will all no longer be covered if that was our primary or only healthcare insurance. We are not even close to flattening the curve on COVID-19, as we just began having a second surge last week. Over 7.3M people (minus the 210K deaths) have had COVID-19 and 300-500K
8/ new cases are indeed possible by the end of 2020, so that would be close to 8M added to the millions already with pre-existing conditions losing health insurance next month! The GOP has said time-after-time that they have a great plan ready, but those two weeks have always
9/ passed with nothing new introduced. Many believe that there will never be a replacement of any kind. The ACA may not be perfect, but having nothing will only lead to many more deaths. Is this really what you want? If you oppose the GOP going back on the precedent they chose to
10/ set themselves by trying to rush through a confirmation of another conservative SCOTUS justice -- something McConnell says they need to help them in the election, too -- to result in 2/3 of the SCOTUS taking away all fairness that the SCOTUS is intended to
11/ represent as a nonpartisan court -- the highest in our country -- will be a body of law that does not represent fairness -- both in the dirty manner in which McConnell achieved it and in its decisions. They already have the majority, so it is far from imperative that they do
12/ this before the election. McConnell has already put the Senate in recession due to the number of people in the WH and Capitol who are now test'g positive for COVID-19. If it's a risk for that, then it's an equal risk for a confirmation hearing that should be carried out live.
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